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Receiving a postcard in your letterbox is still one of the little joys of life. I still write a number of them when I travel. The digital age might have taken over but a postcard has a special quality to it: the effort someone made to send it to you. That family member or friend went to the trouble of buying the card, writing on it, getting a stamp for it and looking for a postbox. I often see people writing them when I travel, so this wonderful gesture to others is far from dead. ❤😊

I didn’t enjoy the book as much as the movie it was very difficult to read the book he created in the story. I felt like the book and the movie other then monk at the core was totally different

great video! i would’ve preferred a mini series as well. the book did such a good job at making me love the characters and the movie felt a little rushed in comparison. i saw there’s a sequel to the book, i’m going to check it out! have you covered disappearing acts by terry mcmillan? i’ve already seen the movie a bunch of times but i just started reading the book.

William was a sus character from the first second on. My dude gave me the absolute heebie jeebies and I haven’t read the book yet.

The movie was rubbish.

i enjoyed the book, too. have u read victor lavalle? i just read the changeling and it was really good.

Great video! I loved the book, but then I watched the show, and I felt what you said: people in the show are much more likable than in the book. I also like that they added the black issues and changed the Slone family completely. And the religious issues were handled more smoothly. They removed all the critics Elizabeth had for saying she was an atheist, including the crazy woman with the bomb. They also removed all the story of the Time’s interview.

So good!!!

The series was very good although all race swapping should just stop.

Thank you for your video! I was so bored by the show but I hate not knowing what happens in things and you saved me 5 hours of my life. The acting was bad (apart from the mom I agree) and the plot was slow, sounds like the book is better though. Thank again :)

it feels like she's talking about another show.

Pretentious pseudo-intellectualism is my knee jerk response to this movie. Which is a shame because it's beautifully shot and well acted. It's grappling with profound ideas but making no insightful commentary about it. It's belligerently salacious under the guise of a distorted view of girl-boss, post modern feminism.

Rebecca Hall didn't "discover" that she had black ancestry. Her mother, Maria Ewing, was a famous opera singer thought of and proud of being black (rather than passing as white) though with mixed ancestry. The actual discovery was about Rebecca's grandfather (Maria's father), who was also of mixed ancestry. He claimed to be a Native American on one census and black in another. This claiming to be different things at different times and in a context in which racial hierarchies were legally enforced were what interested her in Passing.

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Here's why I feel Queenie got little love. I never read the book. The cultural divide and perhaps the fact most of is been there and done it. As far as what she endured as a child with her mom needed to be addressed more. I'm Caribbean American and i love watching shows about that segment of people is great to me though i identify African American too

Man..I just watched the first 3 episodes. It’s going so slow. Not even LaKeith can save this. I just want to get to the point already. People are saying season 1 is just a bunch of unanswered questions. Is season 2 confirmed or nah? 😩

Black cake is kinda a colloquial term for Caribbean rum and fruit cake. Yeah the fruit is usually soaked in rum or sherry mix and then added into the batter with spices and browning (kinda like a sister of molasses used commonly in Caribbean cooking) which gives it a brown “black” loook once cooked used alot in celebration particularly around Christmas time. I think the show goes more into the cake it self and how it came to be a staple in Caribbean cuisine.

I'm watching the movie right now as we speak and it is awesome I love it I give it a million thumbs up

You probably have seen Erika Alexander somewhere else because she was the detective in Get Out. And in case you haven't watched Get Out, you probably don't want to admit that.

Im sorry but i found the book very boring😩😩😩

Can you take your reviews more seriously I was trying to support you and your channel and you don't even care enough to remember the names of the characters if you didn't like the book or the show that much why did you even make the review video I'm just saying this review really could have been better

Enjoyable movie, I don't even watch drama movies

Yay another bookworm who can compare and contrast books and movies while enjoying both media.

Who else enjoyed the wedding scene(in the book) as much as I did?

I disagree entirely. I loved this Netflix series! It was such a journey, a rollercoaster of emotions! I cried my eyes out so much my face was stinging. I have not been moved this way by any movie or series in several years! The chemistry between main characters is electric! I loved the format and how the story was told. I appreciate that the viewer isn’t spoon-fed but we get to uncover and fill in the blanks ourselves.

another memoir book to film rec: gifted hands by ben carson. so incredibly inspiring and beautiful!

The overall concept was so triggering for me. Do not recommend.

I had to look for a review after 20 minutes of the pilot because I was bored. And it confirms that this show is not for me...

I promise I'm trying really hard to pay attention but the names Ryle and Atlas are so distracting that idk who is who. That being said, is there a single redeemable character in this book that I'll never read?

How many books are you bringing on vacation?

please make a book to movie review on "the help" i feel like that novel will become a modern classic in the years to come!

Omg, I was abt to cry when you were explaining the book 😭😭 I’ve never heard of it b4 and I probably won’t read it bcuz I can’t handle a story with such sad parts but I’m really glad you are bringing more awareness to it and getting people to read it 😊😊💖💖

Disclaimer: This is satire because I keep hearing so many people say the book was better than the movie. “The movie was so bad, the book was SOOOO much better!” Me: 👁️👄👁️ In what way? That book is still not very good. “Name one thing that wasn’t good in the book.” Me: I’ll give you a few. One, Lily and Atlas’ relationship in the book when Lily was in high school and Atlas was an adult when they met. She lost her virginity when she was SIXTEEN and he was eighteen. Two, that cow manure scene(Do I really need to explain this). Three, the diary entries to Ellen Degeneres(Of all things, that made no sense). Four, the book has no idea what it’s supposed to be unless people tell them. Five, the end of the book where Lily’s abuser was allowed to see his daughter unsupervised. Six, the fanfic writing style. These are all I know on the top of my head since I’ve never read the books and only know and aware are from book review videos. But if you’d like to add something then feel free to. Edit: I’d like to make an apology for getting the ages wrong for Atlas on here. As I said before I’ve never read the book nor do I intend to.

I truly believe that the author has never been in an abusive relationship based on the book and movie. Not a great or realistic depiction of abuse

I actually really liked how the domestic violence was shown at the beginning vs end of the film. People often gloss over DV and minimize the seriousness of it, hence why so many victims stay in abusive relationships. As someone who didn't read the book before seeing the movie, I wasn't looking for all the red flags. So I, like Lily, viewed the first two scenes with rose colored glasses until they were revealed to be worse later down the line. I could totally see how she would make excuses to stay when viewing the instances as "accidents." It adds so much more complexity and realism to these relationships because these situations are usually not super obvious in the beginning

Omg why is Blake always wearing a bad wig?? Her acting was a lil sloppy too but the way the whole movie was edited it just felt very weird and she didn’t come across as likable really I thought it was just the movie portrayal Cz I never read the book but gtk it’s meant to be like that.

Literally i purchased a book today cause of all this tension and drama over the Adaptation and im nosey so i was like okay i read the book and annotate it then watch the movie 🙃

22:27 😆 Yeah i thought he was great as Atlas! And it doesn't hurt that he is very cute haha

It sounds like a terrible book. Blake Lively is not very good so that doesn't make me want to watch the film either. Thanks for the review.

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@richardgriffiths0908 Thank you for your feedback. I've added some context, hope you enjoy 04:26-11:30

I have signed first edition of Erasure and James 😍 Love Everett's books!!

i feel like Queenie's character should have stayed single at the end of the tv series. she spent months obsessing over Tom then participating in hook up culture, and when she finally goes to therapy, she's only been truly single for a couple of months and gets into another relationship. I agree with you; the series just had her centering men again.

Huh? I don’t really understand your point on the unrealistic conversations with Byron I thought the way his character was being portrayed as a heavily suppressed 1st generation American and with his parents experiencing racism in the UK and Scotland which is why Byron sticking up for himself and his sister resonate because of the heavy suppression

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Thank you so much!

Moving back is no joke. Good for you!

Just started watching it💖💖💖

This is a really fun summary! I LOVED the book and also disliked the film. I love "found manuscript" stories and also love grand historical tragedies so it was very much up my alley. I listened to the audiobook, which I would recommend if you are worried about the political asides boring you lol, it gives the entire book a nice verve. I think you are right that is a serious shame that the movie forgoes the ambiguities of the book. The multiple frame narratives call into question the assumptions of the male writers and editors framing Bella's story. The point you made about a full grown woman with a child's mind being the "ideal" male fantasy... it seems to me that the book interrogates this idea. Bella only gets one real chance to tell her story on her own terms, and that too is full of holes and questions. Within the world of the novel there was a person named Bella Baxter, and though she was in many ways a significant, privileged, and important person who left plenty behind, we are still so far away from understanding and apprehending her as a human being. It's an ambitious and complex novel about the many ways women get controlled and diminished beyond their individual life spans and in the very genre forms we use to describe them. IRONIC then that the film erases the book's location of Glasgow and turns Bella into a mere girlboss icon and childlike woman (ugh), instead of the wonderfully strange and complex woman in the book that is forever, perhaps for the better, out of our reach.