When you've spent the 80's reading a gazillion Harlequin romance paperbacks, that are exactly the same plot formulas, girl meets guy, girl hates guy, conflict, sort of friends now, conflict again, PG rated sexy times, girl loses guy, girl gets guy back, they live happily ever after... only the title and character names have changed ...

You get used to Hallmark movies pretty quickly.

I prefer to read the book first.

I get insights into the movie plot, that isn't often covered on film...

for example, American Gods on Starz, is awful, IF you haven't read the book first.

I mentally fill in a LOT of the gaps in the screenwriting, that would have just been a big WTF is going on here now ? :D

never mind how badly Starz deviated from the book .. off the rails ... but that's another story ....

holy moly that's a big 'un.

we've had fat raccoons on our trailcams, but not that fat.

I am so sorry. I do know from experience, how awful that must have felt. Gut wrenching.

It's awful that some of us have to go through making that mistake, ever since the advent of computers. :\

Steinbeck's Travels with Charley

I found it by accident at a book sale year ago, and had never heard of it.

I've always loved the cross country road trip books, so I picked it up.

became one of my favorite books of all time.

The bride and the whole garter thing, on the chair in the middle of the room, always made me uncomfortable. If I ever had gotten married, that would have been omitted.

Damn. That money could have helped some needy charities, at the very least, if you didn't want to specifically leave it to family...

I wonder what his story was.

that looks amazing