![]() ![]() She has a little sister, Kate, who is obsessed with swimming and has a dream of crossing the English Channel, and a mother, Mrs. The story is told by Charlotte, a fifteen year old Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a nun. ![]() Mermaids is a short and sweet coming-of-age story in the time of JFK and polka dot dresses. So any time I love a movie, now, I search to find out if it has a mother book. With a movie, it is rare for it to have the same effect twice. You can return to it over and over, revisit the words, experience things again and again. But for me, a book is something you can keep forever. A movie is a visual, auditory, emotional experience, for sure. ![]() ![]() I am a book purist, one of those people who always has to put in her two cents about movie adaptations, but I have to admit that it is truly an exciting thing when I discover that a movie I love was a book first. I found Mermaids, by Patty Dann, because I was looking up things about the movie, which, as it happens, is a guilty pleasure and one of my favorites. Perhaps this year will be the year I complete all of the unfinished books I have on the shelves. Today was the beginning of being snowed in, so I decided, spontaneously, to finish reading a book I’d started a while ago and got sidetracked from. ![]()
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