200 Books

I finished this delightful and entertaining book last night and highly recommend it. It is a book club book though, so I can’t share too much. Unfortunately the text included one of my least favorite typos: the misuse of the apostrophe s.

Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is practically a movie already with delightful illustrations and fast-paced action so I don’t know if Hollywood managed to destroy it or not. Of course, I’ve never seen them do a really good job with anything so my hopes are not high. <rant> Seriously! Who messes with The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe? That book was the perfect book for the big screen! It was short, action-packed, engaging and had wonderful, lifelike dialogue. And they STILL SCREWED IT UP. So really, all the talk about you have to do this or you have to do that to adapt a book is garbage. LWW had none of the characteristics that are usually cited as problematic and they still changed it. They changed it gratuitously and Lewis would be turning over in his grave if he wasn’t worried about more important things now.</rant>

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