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Before and After: A Novel | Rosellen Brown

# 7 on the #WinterGamesPhotoChallenge Table mess to Christmas table. #weinterGames24 #HolidayBookDragons @StayCurious

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The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie | Julia Antopol Hirsch

#poetrymatters
#packages
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#wintergames2024 @Liseworks #holidaybookdragons

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The Shop Around the Corner | Samson Raphaelson

I‘m behind on posting yesterday. Time spent reading on 12/16 is actually 4 hours but I forgot to turn off my timer when I fell asleep. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 40 x‘s 5 = 200 points.

Also watched The Shop Around The Corner, the new Christmas episode of Bob‘s Burgers, & While You Were Sleeping. 20 points

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BookmarkTavern, DieAReader, Bookwormjillk, StayCurious, Andrew65, GHABI4ROSES, aperfectmjk, LiseWorks

BookmarkTavern Good job! 3d

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TheEllieMo

The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale | Philip Van Doren Stern

The book that inspired the film It‘s a Wonderful Life

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TheBookgeekFrau Oh wow, I never knew this movie was inspired by a book!! Thanks for that 😊 1w

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1w

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Zuhkeeyah

You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron

My Jólabókaflóð package is on its way!

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#JolabokaflodSwap24 #JS2024 #Jolabokaflod

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Charityann

Home Alone | Kim Smith

Also watching the newest Home Sweet Home Alone movie! I like this one the best of the remakes. (Not counting Home Alone 2) #wintergames #christmaschapterchasers @StayCurious

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Charityann

Home Alone | Kim Smith

Watching Home Alone tonight!😆🎄🎅🏼📺 #christmaschapterchasers @StayCurious #wintergames

PaperbackPirate If Uncle Frank says no, then it must be really bad. 😂 2w

StayCurious Love this classic! 2w

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The Langoliers | Stephen King

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The first novella in the Four Past Midnight collection is absolutely crazy. How does King come up with this stuff? There is a time rip and people missing from the plane and suspicion of bad, hungry, monsters called “langoliers.” It‘s a long buildup until the langoliers finally land on the page and WHOA once they do. The idea of this happening is horrifying, but I could not look away. This reads sort of like sci-fi horror lite. #readingStephenKing

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Monty Python & the Holy Grail | Monty Python

#DaysDevotedTo
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swynn

Star Trek-the Motion Picture: A Novel | Alan Dean Foster, Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston

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(1979) I know I'm supposed to dislike the movie but y'all, I remember going to see it (at the drive-in, kids, remind me to tell you about drive-ins sometime) and you can't tell me it wasn't awesome because man I was there. The book is not objectively good -- it has *footnotes* for crying out loud, and the prose about Ilia's pheremone powers is cringey -- but so what? I can't hear old-man-me's objections over the cheers of my inner 11-year-old.

CatLass007 It was a visually stunning film. I think that watching it on the big screen was a bit tedious after a while. But later on, I remember watching it on the small screen and enjoying it. I don‘t think Roddenberry knew how to do theatrically released movies but he definitely knew how to do television. It was just the wrong medium for the film. I remember reading the book and thinking it was ho-hum. I don‘t remember seeing Alan Dean Foster as (cont)⬇️ 1mo

CatLass007 an author or co-author when I read it in when it was published (I was in high school and so many of my friends were looking forward to seeing the movie and we all were disappointed). I thought Foster did a very good job with the book adaptation of TAS. His work was superior to the James Blish adaptation of TOS. But I was so starved for Star Trek when the Blish books were published, that I read them multiple times. 1mo

swynn @CatLass007 Thanks for sharing those memories! I definitely remember hearing disappointment from other fans, and would probably have shared it if I had been a little older. But yes, whatever the story's flaws the film was gorgeous. I'm not sure what role exactly Foster played in the novelization, but critical-me thinks that awkwardness in the prose hints that it's more Rodenberry's work than Foster's. 1mo

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Bookwomble I haven't read this novelization, but I adored the film when it was released, and adore it still. I'm generally good with decompressed films as long as the story and characters are engaging, which I find with this one. 🖖 3w

swynn @Bookwomble The movie is definitely the essential thing, and if you've seen it then the novelization is optional; otoh if you've seen it and love it then you'll probably find the book engaging as well, especially to see some other ideas that Roddenberry was playing with at the time. 3w

Bookwomble @swynn It's not a book I'll actively track down, but I do always look for it whenever I see a stack of Star Trek novels. I've read The Wrath of Khan novel, which I didn't not like, and I have The Search for Spock on the old TBR 😏📚 3w

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