A couple of weeks ago I was telling someone (now I can’t remember who this was) how I watched all the films nominated for best picture. This person (maybe the woman I was speaking to at the alignment shop?) said, well did you see The Glass Castle
I said no, I hadn’t.
I had just recently read the book last year. And I liked it so much I decided that I just couldn’t see the movie after all, even though I finally read the book so I could see the movie…
But with a few months separating myself from that reading experience, I decided to – based on her recommendation – give the movie a try after all.
Now I wish I could remember who this was and thank this woman! Because yes, this is a great movie and IT DOES do the book justice.
by Chloe Benjamin might be my favorite book of the year thus far.
, which is both critically and scientifically acclaimed.
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. This older book was published in 2011 as the debut work of Amor Towles.
for Christmas (and received it – thanks mom & dad) and settled into reading it nearly every evening since then (it is 771 pages long). Now I find myself missing this book every evening. I had settled into a routine of stressing about Theo and his issues. This won the Pulitzer in 2013 so I am late in my praise, but having loved it as much as I did, I still want to write a short tribute to this book.
was moved up a few days due to the White House trying to stop the publication of this book. Of course this book was already on my radar, but would I have dropped everything to read it without this new drama surrounding it?? Maybe not….