Girl With a Pearl Earring

This book by Tracy Chevalier was one of our previous book club choices and I finally saw the movie tonight. It's interesting - as it always is to me - the choices they made when adapting the book into a movie. I always love to note the differences, perhaps because I am a big fan of both books and movies and also because I have screenwriting aspirations. A small but telling difference for me was Vermeer's piercing of Griet's ear, instead of making her do it on her own. It gave them a tender moment to share. Overall, though, I think you are left with a rather vague sense of what went on between the two of them, even more vague than you got in the book. I definitely don't think I would have been able to sit through the movie had I not read the book. One bright spot: Colin Firth with long hair is pretty hot!

Book Club!

The Pleasure of My Company by the hilarious Steve Martin was chosen as the next must-read for our monthly book club. Although I read it a few months ago, I enjoyed it enough to help recommend it to the others. I am thinking about going with the book-on-CD version this time around because Steve himself does the reading and I think it might be really cool to hear his take on his own book. I'll let you know...

Welcome

Welcome to my Blog! Thanks for coming. Here will be the space where I post comments on interesting things I find around the Internet and the world. Since my general interests are media-related, most of the posts will likely be about books I read, movies I see, or television shows I watch. But don't count out sports or shopping or society in general. I can and will post about anything, adding my wry commentary along the way, and I hope everyone posts their comments along with me!