Friday, March 25, 2016

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

** 2 stars

This is definitely a situation where the movie is better than the book.  I saw the movie a few weeks ago and absolutely LOVED it.  The movie was just lovely in all respects. But I did feel the movie could have done a bit better job explaining some of the character's motivations.  So, I read the book expecting perhaps to discern some of that.  But no. If anything, the movie actually explained some things better than the book.  To be honest, I was actually pretty disappointed in the book. I'm grateful that I didn't try to read the book first as I might have skipped the movie!  This is the same situation I found myself in with Julie and Julia; great movie; terrible book!

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