I eBay’ed a set of books by Hoffman, hoping that those are as easy to read as this one.
I loved both (the movie being in my top ten of all time and watched at least twice every year). To the aged old question, which was best, movie or book? I cannot choose really, they were so different and, in their own individual ways, amazing. (PM317): Always throw spilled salt over your shoulder. Don’t think summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. (PM213): Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. A sweater the color of a robins egg or a scarf for the shade of heaven. (PM): If A woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection. (PM103): She dreamed that the swans that haunt her on restless night were pulling out their white feathers, one by one they were building a nest large enough for a man. (PM99): After more than twenty years of flirtations and fucking around and refusing to ever commit, she had to go and fall in love with someone like him, someone so bad that on the day they moved furniture into the rented house in Tucson, the mice head all fled, because even the field mice had more sense than she did. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction. (PM62): It doesn’t matter what people tell you. (PM7): …that the moon is always jealous of the heat of day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep. If there be one, seek till you find it / If there be none, never mind it. (PM): For every evil under the sun / There is a remedy, or there is none. I live tweeted, as I read the book, bits and bobs that would jump up to me from the pages.
But the ones that stood out to me most are those above. There are differences too numerous to note here, additional characters, additional scenes, etc. The differences that stood out the most to me: the age of the children, the more divisiveness of the sisters, the appearance of the aunts maybe not “caring” (for lack of a better word) and that the story took place somewhere other than the aunts’ house. I have been making sure to read with extra light, preferably outside when a little sunshine finds its way between the clouds or in the sunroom, midday. I say initially because I devoured the book in just at two days. And, I initially decided to “take it slow”, to “go easy on my eyes” and only consume the book in small bites. I am not sure why I felt the urge to pick up this particular book, but I did.
My vision for the longest time was so poor that I could barely make it through my work day and squint through the blur on the drive home. This book is significant for me in a number of ways, the greatest of all is that this is the first book I have physical read (and not Audible’d) since March 2018.
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