I liked this from the start and by the end loved it. The perfect feel good book if you're feeling blue. The novel creates its own unique world that could be described as urban fantasy or magical realism. The story concerns the Owens family. At the novel's start, two little Owens girls, Sally and her...
Even though I've read this book a few times before, it's just as good as the first time. Alice Hoffman has what I call a cinematic style of bringing fairy-tale-like narrations to contemporary story and setting, specifically New England. So it's no surprise when this book was turned into a movie no...
Seriously i thought i would die reading this book. i thought that it would never ever end...it went on forever.ok so on this particular case the movie was way better than the actual book. The book in other words sucked. maybe i should have read the book first and then watched the movie but when you ...
Seriously i thought i would die reading this book. i thought that it would never ever end...it went on forever.ok so on this particular case the movie was way better than the actual book. The book in other words sucked. maybe i should have read the book first and then watched the movie but when you ...
I rented this book on audio CD. While I found the story to be interesting and engaging, and while I liked the characters, I really hated how the person read it. She tried to do voices for the characters, and it just didn't work well.
The book was very different from the movie. Hoffman has a way of combining magic with emotions, her characters are very well portrayed and she handels them with love. they are different, yet the same, they're complex and unique, together creating a beautiful picture. in Hoffman's world the fact that...
Having never known that the movie was based on a book I could hardly break my "no movie till the book has been read" oath following the Lord of the Rings tragedy. But here I think I hardly have worried, because I have found that rare thing, a story that is better on the screen than the page (in my o...
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