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The Movie or the Book? Yesterday evening, I went to a Book Club. The Book was "Hidden Figures." The woman who hosted the Book Club meeting only read half the book. I read three quarters on the book and another woman didn't crack the book open at all. The book had interesting information since it mentioned White Sulphur Spring, West Virginia and I learned facts that I didn't know. The Greenbrier Resort was used to house POW's. It is not a place that would in my financial realities. Also, West Virginia was one of the first States to get rid of Jim Crow Laws. The Governor of Virginia was so against desegregation that many of the schools in Virginia were closed for up to five years. Nonetheless, I did find the book difficult to follow. I decided to rent the movie and watches it the night before the Book Club. The movie gave more insight about the three main characters in the book. African American women who worked for NASA as mathematician during the Jim Crow/Civil Rights era. It was an interesting discussion despite the fact that only one woman read the entire book. Now all I have to do is finish the book and discuss it at the unprogramed Book Club with my Quaker friends in a few weeks. So - What Book & Movie have you seen and read? Which one was better?  Abracadabra  |
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My first experience with this was years ago when I read the book "Valley of the Dolls". Later, I saw the movie and was so disappointed. After that, I decided when the situation presented itself, I would rather watch the movie first. Now, I often read the book, and if the movie presents itself, I just remind myself that no way can they show in a couple hours, all that my mind had seen as I read the book. Sometimes, when I watch a movie, I find out it was based on a book, so then I will search for it. I actually do more reading than I do movie watching and I get most of my books on the second hand market. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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6/2/2017 4:43 am |
Hi Star: That sounds like an interesting book. I love the idea of a book club but here in Canada even paperback books cost $20.00 and up. You can't even buy books in paperback until the book has been sold in hardcover for awhile and hardcover books cost even more. I buy my books second hand at garage sales and thrift stores.
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Hi Star: That sounds like an interesting book. I love the idea of a book club but here in Canada even paperback books cost $20.00 and up. You can't even buy books in paperback until the book has been sold in hardcover for awhile and hardcover books cost even more. I buy my books second hand at garage sales and thrift stores. Abracadabra
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