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I feel like I bore you lot, since all my post seem to be about books, so... I'm sorry? But here's another one. I had to share my excitement with the world.
The new Gregory Maguire book, A Lion Among Men the third in the Wicked cycle, is coming out the 14th! I am SO unbelievably glad that he didn't take ten years to write this one, like he did between Wicked and Son of a Witch. I'm able to handle three years. I might have to wait until the 21st though, when we're in California. Unless I can somehow convince my sister to send it to me. Though she never really thinks about what I want. It's always about her.
Actually, I might have better luck convincing my parents.
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Would you like to know something that I still struggle with to this day? Deciding if I like to read the book before the movie? Or reading it afterwards.
Personally, I've actually typically chosen to read the book first, but I have a friend who is the complete opposite. She doesn't read the book until after she sees the movie so that she won't be so upset that they changed something or left something out. I can see where she's coming from, but I seem to always feel like I'm missing out on something when I do that. But if you do what I do, you find yourself going "That's not how it happened!" or "What happened to this?"
I try to go into the movie with the opinion that I can understand why they may have changed some things, to make things flow better, or I try to view it as a different piece entirely, but that's pretty hard.
What do you guys typically do?
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[02 Sep 2008|11:41pm] |
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I was shelving some books in the library today, and I accidentally dropped a book. Something fell out of it, so I picked it up, of course.
Someone had written this... breathtakingly beautiful love letter to a woman, and somehow, it ended up stuck in the pages of a book. And I felt a little like I was invading someone's intimate thoughts, since it was such a personal letter, but I couldn't help but finish reading it. It moved me to tears. ...Which I probably shouldn't admit to, but... oh well.
It's one thing, reading about great love in novels and seeing it in movies, but to know that a real, living man felt this strongly for someone was just astounding to me. I could just be a nerd, though. Who knows?
I stuck it back in a random book, just so maybe someone else might find it and enjoy it as much as I did.
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