Just before Halloween, over-the-air ABC showed the movie Hocus Pocus Two. We really liked it 🎬💝.
To my surprise, it was completely different from the book!
Which one I liked more 📚🤔🎬 is difficult to say...
Neither is perfectly good as part one, yet I enjoyed both continuations.
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1 - Equally beautiful...there's something magical about both. Each makes me stop a moment and appreciate the change in atmosphere. 💕🌇🌞🌛🌆💝.
2 - just finishing Hocus Pocus Two (the book version). Trickery, heuristic, and friendship.
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Thank You @debinhawaii for #5JoysFriday, hope that by next Friday, one of your own joys is that you're all well 🙏💝.
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1- Halloween was fun & peaceful 💕🎃💝
2- Today begins day one of Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) 💕👻💝.
3- Completed eight books for #HauntedShelf and & #SpookOWeen...never really tracked how many books I read per-month, yet this feels like a record for me.
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I won't complete part two of Hocus Pocus until after Halloween...yet, not bad if I do say so myself, eight books! 📚🥳.
Total this second half: 210
Total overall: 660
Thanks for Hosting #HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper 🌺💝.
Thank You Team Leader of the #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN🐈⬛💝.
And another thanks to @TheSpineView 🐎💝 for hosting #SpookOWeen.
I've truly had a Spooktacular time!
Happy Halloween!
Thank You @TheSpineView for creating this fun play-card 🐎 & for the tag ☺️👍💝.
1 - I try to dress up every year, even if it is low-key-simple...like saving a new pair of character slippers for Halloween night 😂.
2 - Hocus Pocus! Probably won't finish part two until after Halloween. Part one (a novelization of the original movie) was Spooktacular 🧹🧹🧹🎬📚💫!
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I have not read many novelizations, yet this is the best written one that I have come across.
Novelizations can seem impersonal. Events of the story more reported...told instead of shown. Even my Batman Begins book felt this way in some parts.
A.W. Jantha did an exquisite job taking Hocus Pocus from movie to book. Beautifully written and given respect on the page. There is true feeling weaved into the storyline all the way through.
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Hopefully I will read the remainder of part one (which is the original movie) tonight.
Read while enjoying an Empanada 🥟 💝. Been meaning to snap a photo of my mama's pumpkin Empanadas every weekend...they usually vanish before I get a chance 😋😂💝. We didn't make apple this year, only pumpkin.
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Been meaning to read this for every Halloween since I purchased this book!
It has been a few years since adding this book to my library 😂.
I always run across it in November and say, “Oops, I guess next year.“
One of my favorite movies 🎬📚💝...this is the year I discover if the novelization and sequel are just as good 🤞😉💝.
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Watching Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker returning as Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson was splendid fun.
My two favorite parts of the movie are:
1- The beginning, showing the Sanderson sisters as children and how they truly received their book.
2- And the ending, showing Winifred's love for her sisters is genuine.
I also liked the message of the movie, that magic is meant to be shared.
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With the book, it was equally as nice that the whole cast returns (or are mentioned).
While the novelization to the original was in the 3rd POV. This continuation is from Poppy's POV (Allison's and Max's daughter). I liked this.
Loved having an update on “all“ the original characters, which seemed respectful to the original story.
The very ending, which was focused on the Sanderson's Book of Shadows was surprising and interesting.
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The original movie and the novelization are amongst my five-star favorites ⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐.
With the continuations:
While the book had the extra add of a blooming relationship between Poppy and a character named Isabella, both movie and book focus on the power of friendship.
Yet I believe that there was something important missing from both versions.
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The movie continuation kept this only with the Sanderson sisters.
I would have like a kid sibling mixed somewhere into both continuing storylines. Like maybe with the book, have given Isabella a little sister and kinda turn the tables on the first character setup...
For this reason, both continuations will always be four stars...sorry.
(edited) 2w