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Cumberland (1142 KP) created a poll about in The Smashbomb Book Club

Jul 28, 2019 (Updated Aug 2, 2019)  
Poll
 Closed  Anonymous
Hello everyone! Here is the poll for August's book. The theme is adaptations, books that have been made into movies. As part of this months discussion I would love to compare the book and movie! The poll will be up until the 1st so please vote!

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

0 votes

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

0 votes

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

0 votes

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

4 votes

To All The Boys Ive Loved Before by Jenny Han

1 votes

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

1 votes

  
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Milleen (47 KP) rated Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine in Books

Nov 14, 2018  
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
6
8.6 (80 Ratings)
Book Rating
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, this story will appeal to any fans of Jojo Moyes or Liane Moriarty. Our eponymous central character leads a very solitary, structured life, same clothes, same food, same two bottles of vodka each weekend. Eleanor exists but has not fully grasped how to live. This tale follows her as she tackles life and gradually reveals the deeply buried reasons behind her behaviour. This book is funny yet poignant and heart breaking. Honeyman has tackled the topic of loneliness, isolation and how our social interactions help form our understanding of others. This book will be the well-thumbed fodder of many a book group in years to come.
  
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Micky Barnard (542 KP) rated The Giver of Stars in Books

Nov 3, 2019  
The Giver of Stars
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
A quietly emotional story
I should know…know that when I read a Jojo Moyes book that it’s going to pack an emotional punch but with this blurb, I just didn’t see it coming. THE GIVER OF STARS had me invested quickly and feeling like a family member to the librarian sisterhood, so that when things happened, I felt devastated and scared to read on. The themes of misogyny, racism and feminism made this both emotional and empowering.

The context of reading, teaching poor and downtrodden women, children and men to read through the distrubution of books was in the background but it also powerful to observe. These women on their riding rounds also comforted the sick, grieving and took on the role of friends, confidantes and substitute mother figures.

I didn’t expect this book to be unputdownable, but it was as Moyes made the mundane work of Alice, Margery, Izzy and Beth’s lives totally readable and absorbing. Alice was the main protagonist, an English newly-wed, a little prissy but a genuinely sweet woman. The life she found in Kentucky was not at all what she expected and I tore my hair out over her and Bennett’s relationship. There were some revolting men in this book but then there were also some fantastic characters in Fred and Sven, they were the light in my reading and this book.

There was a second supporting protagonist in Margery and she really captured my heart. I loved her rebelliousness, her unconventional ways and willingness to be different. Her later storyline had me distraught, sad and prone to weeping. I just did not know where this book was going to end, there were so many possibilities.

I have come away from this read inspired. Jojo Moyes took me on a journey with this story and I am all the richer for it. This is historical women’s fiction at it’s best and I will remember this book for years, I am sure.
  
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Ashley Valencia (5 KP) rated Me Before You (2016) in Movies

Apr 13, 2019  
Me Before You (2016)
Me Before You (2016)
2016 | Drama
8
8.2 (31 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Emilia Clarke (1 more)
Emilia Clarke's eyebrows
You will cry (1 more)
No seriously you will cry A LOT
In this faithful adaption of the novel by Jojo Moyes, we have your pretty standard love story. Two people (Lou and Will) from very different walks of life (one poor, one disgustingly rich) meet, find common ground, and ultimately fall in love. The problem is that Will, who was recently in an accident that made him a quadriplegic, suffers from depression and has made plans to end his life. Overall I think the story is told well, it definitely made me cry like a baby, and is definitely worth the watch for any romance fan. Emilia Clarke is adorable in her role and her eyebrows are their own character.