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Category Archives: Book vs Film
Book vs Film: Animals
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Book vs TV series: The Pursuit of Love
The BBC’s miniseries based on Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love kicked off Lockdown 6.0 for me. And it was perfection – dare I say that it’s a rare case of ‘film’ being better than the book? Big call I know, particularly given that it’s Mitford we’re talking about. Continue reading
Book vs film: My Salinger Year
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Book vs Film – Beautiful Boy
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Book vs TV Series: Little Fires Everywhere
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Things that are making me happy this week
01. We went to the Rain Room. It’s a strange and extraordinary experience. Continue reading
Book vs Film: French Exit
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Book vs. TV Series: Quicksand
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Book vs. TV Series: My Brilliant Friend – The Story of a New Name
I didn’t care for the books, but thought the first TV series (with each episode representing one chapter in the first book) was superb.
The second series – which aligns with The Story of a New Name – is so, so good. It’s demanding viewing because the actress who plays Lila (Gaia Girace), is the master of the overt and the incredibly subtle – her glances, her body language, the slightest tilt of her head says EVERYTHING. Continue reading