Yes Kate, see it if you can! It’s better than it was reviewed. I did like Viggo in Captain Fantastic, living out in the woods with his kids. I picture him that way.
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Yep, I send that sunset out to you Deepika. All the way to India 🙂 …. This week I will send you snow too, ha. Hope you enjoy your “autumn.”

Hi Catherine, yeah I couldn’t believe of swimming in the Pacific this late in the season. It felt great! Glad you thought the same about Stay With Me; your reviews are always so good. And see the Glass Castle if you can. I think it might be available on rental now. Hmm.

I agree about Stay With Me- so much sadness. They were unknowingly fighting against each other.

Glad to hear about Glass Castle. I’m going to see if it’s still around.

Hi Ti, yeah SoCal almost burned me up last week. I couldn’t believe it! I hope you’ll get some rain this fall and “winter.” As for Stay With Me, it is quite sad & potent a book — as always I wanted to shake these characters but the author did it well too. The thing with the Glass Castle is that I thought Jeannette Walls wrote about it so well. Her attitude and writing rose above many other terrible childhood memoirs. It was darkly humorous in places too. Usually I don’t like memoirs about bad families, but this one hooked me. Though I know what you mean, about being too close to subject matters sometimes, and that can alter one’s feelings on a book. So I get what you’re saying.

Oh good Judy, I hope you get some cooler temperatures there & maybe rain too? I couldn’t believe it when I was there, wowza that was hot. As for Stay With Me, these Nigerian female authors are quite impressive to me. I will keep my eye out for more African authors. & so glad if you got to see The Glass Castle movie too, hooray! The movie seemed to prove me wrong in a big way. Brie Larson knocks it right out of the park. Ha. I was pleased b/c the book made quite an impact on me. Jeannette Walls surely can write.

Hi Rachel, I agree the previews made the movie of The Glass Castle seem ridiculous compared to the book, but actually it’s quite a bit better than that. You still get mad at the parents in the movie. See it if you get the chance. As for Nigeria, that’s heartbreaking to hear about your daughter’s friend. I can only hope it’ll become more modern & democratic & change for the good. As long as we have novelists such as Adichie and Adebayo and others, there is hope!

Yes Susie! I just wish the couple in Stay With Me could’ve communicated with one another as they did love each other. Oh I’m still trying to change that story in my head, LOL. If you get a chance, go ahead & see The Glass Castle movie it wasn’t as bad as I feared — it gets quite a bit of the book!