For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to...
I'm just gonna c/p the review I sent to my friend who prompted me to read this: My thoughts: I liked it, it seemed VERY hetero-romantic focused in a noticeable way, I realized that using romantic fate as a major plot point is boring for me because it takes choice and nuance out of things, and I like...
I'm just gonna c/p the review I sent to my friend who prompted me to read this: My thoughts: I liked it, it seemed VERY hetero-romantic focused in a noticeable way, I realized that using romantic fate as a major plot point is boring for me because it takes choice and nuance out of things, and I like...
Even though this is a tale about witches, to me it seems more a story about family, specifically sisters but family in general also. And it does have romance too. I enjoyed it.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman For so many reasons I couldn't quite pinpoint--and had required a long, thorough think--this book was both frustrating and fascinating at the same time. I went through a roller coaster of thinking: "Man, this book is not working for me" to "Hmm... this is actual...
I saw the film of Practical Magic, which was made, I think, in 1998, years ago, and it's a fun movie. It is, however, rather different from the novel, and I can see why. Both the title and set-up are solid movie material (there are witches among us, and one of them has a very nasty ex-boyfriend,...
This is book is very big on flashy sensory descriptors to give counterpoint to internalized thoughts and emotions. In a way, the plot execution is in a rather sleight-of-hand manner. It feigns in one direction and then doubles back, or something totally unexpected happens -- quite entertaining reall...
2.5 stars.This book was a mixed bag for me.On the one hand, I pretty much dig the writing style and the mood that Alice Hoffman sets in this one. I tend to like magic realism, and this is the "chick lit" version. It was another seasonal fall read for me, and I was pretty receptive to what it had to ...
I thought I knew what to expect when I started reading this book, but boy was I wrong. I’ve seen the movie featuring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman multiple times. It’s actually one of my favorites and I always try to watch it at least once during the month of October. I know, I know. I shouldn’t ...
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