Tag: book and a movie
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin book club
Supposedly, shortly after the Civil War starte,d President Lincoln met with Harriet Beecher Stowe and joked, “So, you’re the little lady who started this war.” Now, historians say that probably didn’t happen, but that book did inspire large portions of the abolitionist movement and sold like crazy during the mid-nineteenth century. This was an interesting…
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Robin Hood book club
Years ago my brother read the Robin Hood Illustrated Classics book and told me all about how Robin Hood actually died. Or how he died in that particular version. See here’s the thing about Robin Hood, he gets reinvented every few generations for the politics of the current generation. Which makes this a perfect Book…
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night
If you haven’t read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, then you need to right now. You will not regret it. As soon as I found out it was a book and a movie, I had to do this. HAD TO. I listed it as one of my favorites on my Christmas books post last year.…
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins book and a movie night
I remember reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins in elementary school and being charmed by the absurdity. When Jim Carrey made a movie of it a few years ago I was worried about how close it would stay to the source material. Turns out I was right on that. Either way though, I wanted to read the…
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Princess Diaries book club
Funny story, I went and wrote a Princess Diaries book club post where I had already created the pictures thinking, “That’s funny, why didn’t I publish this when I made these pictures years ago?” Well I did, so I’m republishing it,, but I’m going to add in my extra things from when I rewrote this…