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Journal Entry 13 by
Arrived today! WOO HOO! I'd actually forgotten about this one, and am so excited to read and watch it. I remember seeing the previews of the movie, thinking it was one I had to see. I added it to my "list", but still haven't seen it. Now I get the best of both worlds :)Thanks, Beck (and Molly too)! I'll do my best to get this done in 2 weeks. But I have to warn you -- I've been collecting books for an m-bag for New Zealand, and I keep finding books I want to read before sending to NZ! My cutoff is November 12, so any of the 6 that are currently in the pile and unread by then have to go, but I'm really trying to read them all! I'll hurry, though :) (pictured is "Aspen turning" -- this is how it looks here this time of year!) |
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Journal Entry 14 by
finished tonight, and then watched on TiVo: Alias, Joey and The Apprentice finale. Real journal entry later :)Update Jan 7, 2006: Well, I've processed the book a bit, and I also watched the DVD on Wednesday when Unk was out of town. I'm still trying to decide if I'd say I "liked" it or not. I guess I did like it, but I didn't love it. It was interesting to me that while reading the book, I could kind of picture some of the beautiful cinematography that the movie captured. That doesn't usually happen for me :) I was also somewhat distracted by the fact that I knew the two women who were in the movie. So although I didn't know which was played by whom, I kept picturing one or the other of their faces while I was reading. I think the reason I don't love this book is that there's not a lot of hope in it. It's incredibly well-written, mostly believable and wholly authentic, but it's also very sad. I felt sorry, really, for almost all of the characters by the end. One passage I enjoyed was about "being an aunt" -- surprise, surprise! Pammy came up to the table next to me, and I put my arm around her waist. She said, "Can I make some popcorn?" I did like her relationship with Pammy and Linda, but I was also sad about Rose's relationship with them. The whole thing was very odd, and of course Jess asking about the well water just compounded how I felt about it. Re: the movie -- I remember thinking while I was reading the book that there was no way the movie could accurately represent it all -- there was too much! And I think I was right. While I was watching it, I was thinking that I wouldn't understand it at all if I hadn't read the book. Two things of note from the movie -- that I don't remember from the book but may have been in it -- at one point, the narrator says "the death of a parent is the one misfortune for which there is no compensation". As someone who lost a parent, I couldn't agree more. I thought that was so profound. And then at the very end, the thing that (I think) made me like the movie more than the book, she said this about Rose's girls -- "they have something Rose and I never had -- hope." Thanks for sharing the book and the movie! It's a movie I wanted to see ever since I saw the first preview and didn't know it was a book first :) I'll think about where I'm releasing the book -- let's hope it travels far! Edited to add that the picture I've used is one of my dad, a man loved by all children. He died in December of 1998, and I still miss him. |
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