film vs book
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs: Film VS. Book
While visiting Tommy’s Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about “your poor child” and “something behind the fireplace”. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW One of the darker Christie’s I have read and I’ve read my fair share so…
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Interior Chinatown: Show VS. Book
Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in…
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Carmilla Film VS. Book
I won’t be writing my usual review for the book here since I *just* reviewed it, so here’s the link and if you want something shorter and not have a new tab, here we go… Awesome classical novel with Carmilla being BEFORE Dracula, and lesbian. Book is super atmospheric, short,…
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Sparkling Cyanide: Film VS. Book
Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary- “rosemary for remembrance.” A strange sentiment considering no one is likely to forget the night, exactly a year ago, that Rosemary Barton died at exactly…
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The Halloween Tree: Film VS. Book
GoodReads: Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite…
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Belated Two Year Blogiversary
So last year I missed my anniversary for my blog by like four days, this year it was by like two months almost lol. We’ll chalk that up to the hell that has been 2020-21 thus far. 2019-2020 I was really excited to have gotten to 500 followers, I now…
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The Last Unicorn: Film VS. Book
GoodReads: The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. So she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all…
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A Christmas Carol: Films VS. Book
GoodReads: A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of…
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The Exorcist: Film VS. Book
GoodReads: Four decades after it first shook the nation, then the world, William Peter Blatty’s thrilling masterwork of faith and demonic possession returns in an even more powerful form. Raw and profane, shocking and blood-chilling, it remains a modern parable of good and evil and perhaps the most terrifying…
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Misery: Film VS. Book
GoodReads: Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon’s number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The…
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