as a Certified Reader, I genuinely love adaptations. Sometimes it’s tough when I’ve really loved a book to see it made into a visual medium because there’s always something lost in translation but I do my best to remind myself that it’s simply a different manifestation of a story I enjoyed with characters I care about. Same reason I love reading fanfic!
The Diplomat looks like it’s going to scratch my West Wing itch AND I love Keri so it’s in my queue (trying not to watch stuff during the strike)
Excellent Nicole shoutout. I’ve been saving AYTG? IMM to watch on a hard day. I also have not read the book and tbh considering watching the movie first (anathema to my parents who forced their homeschooled children to read any book before watching its adaptation!).
hahahahah every time I watch an adaptation without reading the book first, I can feel fifteen-year-old me gaps in horror and shame. And then CURRENT me feels FREE!!! lol
That is such a GREAT way to describe it! It's so fun because they overlay regular-people dynamics like office/coworkers and struggling-marriage over this really really important job.
Just have to comment on the period purse. I too got to pick out my first purse, right after finishing the American Girl- Care and Keeping of You (still highly recommend). Then my mom packed clean underwear and a pad in a baggie for me to keep in the purse in the event I got my period, not at home. I too remember thinking EVERYONE knew why I had a purse. But, I was so thankful 3 years later, when I got my period at youth group (in the stone house) and had clean underwear in that embarrassing purse. Haha
OMG the Stone House!!!! lol!! That gave me such a wash of warm nostalgia. What a perfect memory of starting your period at youth group. Thank goodness for our moms preparing us against our wills.
Was it the Care and Keeping of You that launched an entire generation of period purses? (Or, as my friend Emily called it "pad purse" because I wasn't using tampons yet -- too scared!) What an important book lol
as a Certified Reader, I genuinely love adaptations. Sometimes it’s tough when I’ve really loved a book to see it made into a visual medium because there’s always something lost in translation but I do my best to remind myself that it’s simply a different manifestation of a story I enjoyed with characters I care about. Same reason I love reading fanfic!
The Diplomat looks like it’s going to scratch my West Wing itch AND I love Keri so it’s in my queue (trying not to watch stuff during the strike)
Excellent Nicole shoutout. I’ve been saving AYTG? IMM to watch on a hard day. I also have not read the book and tbh considering watching the movie first (anathema to my parents who forced their homeschooled children to read any book before watching its adaptation!).
hahahahah every time I watch an adaptation without reading the book first, I can feel fifteen-year-old me gaps in horror and shame. And then CURRENT me feels FREE!!! lol
Really enjoying the diplomat. Has a fun, inside baseball feel to people who do highly important jobs but talk to each other like co-workers would
That is such a GREAT way to describe it! It's so fun because they overlay regular-people dynamics like office/coworkers and struggling-marriage over this really really important job.
Just have to comment on the period purse. I too got to pick out my first purse, right after finishing the American Girl- Care and Keeping of You (still highly recommend). Then my mom packed clean underwear and a pad in a baggie for me to keep in the purse in the event I got my period, not at home. I too remember thinking EVERYONE knew why I had a purse. But, I was so thankful 3 years later, when I got my period at youth group (in the stone house) and had clean underwear in that embarrassing purse. Haha
OMG the Stone House!!!! lol!! That gave me such a wash of warm nostalgia. What a perfect memory of starting your period at youth group. Thank goodness for our moms preparing us against our wills.
Was it the Care and Keeping of You that launched an entire generation of period purses? (Or, as my friend Emily called it "pad purse" because I wasn't using tampons yet -- too scared!) What an important book lol