Junee - Good to hear from you!  Doctor Zhivago, is a movie that can be watched and enjoyed over and over again.  There is so much to learn and to see, that you can't get it all in just one viewing.  There are a couple of scenes that I look forward to, every time I watch it.  One is when Yuri and Lara, arrive at the family estate in the Urals, and walk through that incredible frozen mansion. I read that it's called the "Ice Palace Scene".  I always marvel at it, and wonder how they ever filmed it? 

I watched "Light between Oceans" on DVD. It was O.K but i think I enjoyed reading the book more. Your imagination sort of takes over in books and in the film it didn't.  Scenery did but not the actors.  I get that often when getting both. Once in awhile I will like the movie better.

Jeanne - Looks like you weren't impressed with The Light Between Oceans.  I hope to see it some afternoon this weekend.  I don't think it's the kind of movie that AJ would like, so I'll watch it when he's busy with something else.  Actually, I think maybe he would like it!  He seems to be enjoying lots of heavy drama in recent months. I rented the Oscar winner, Manchester By the Sea, and watched it alone one evening when he was out.  Because I had the movie for 48 hours (Comcast) he watched it later, and liked it a lot!  That movie is about as heavy as drama ever gets!

Speaking of "books into movies", yesterday I watched Water For Elephants.  My daughter read the book this week, and was so crazy about it, that I decided I wanted to read it again.  In the meantime, I found it on my free movies, so saw it yesterday afternoon.  It's a unique story, and one that most people would enjoy, I think.  Now I must get the book, as I remember that the book was much better than the movie.  Both good!

A new week, and some new books are waiting to be read.   I checked out two from the library, but haven't decided which one to read first.  I think it will be, What Dreams May Come, by Richard Matheson. (Author of "Somewhere in Time".)  The other one is, News of the World, by Paulette Giles.  It comes highly recommended on one of my book club sites. I also have the two here at home that I bought last week at B&N - The Lilac Girls, and Last One Home. Both look good, but I'll read the library books first. 

Marilyne, read "News of the World"... Ithink you'll love it.
Believe your hubby will too!
Joanne

Tome - You are exactly right!  I'm reading News Of The World, and I'm loving it.   Hubby will read it as soon as I finish. 

Marilyne, yes indeed.  I absolutely loved it.  It's been a few weeks since I finished, but the characters are still with me, and I consider doing a re-read! (but have f2f book club things to read first)

I finished, News of the World, and can truly say that it's the best book I've read in a long time. I didn't want it to end, but when it did, I was overcome with emotion . . . mixed feelings of joy and sadness. Such a great story. Such remarkable characters. Nothing I say can do it justice, so I'll simply recommend News of the World, to those who read this discussion, and hope that you'll all like it.

Thank you, Marilyne, for your "endorsement" of "News of the World". You felt the same way I did. (I still sometimes think we're sisters, separated at birth!)

Joanne

For any of you who may have read the story of Henrietta Lacks, you'll be interested in hearing that Oprah Winfrey is making an HBO movie about her.  I don't know when it's due to be shown.

Maryz, my book club read the story of Henrietta Lacks--I think we did it at least 5 years ago, the first year it was published.  It was frightening in what was done to this poor and poorly educated woman.  I was shocked and would expect the movie to shock many viewers. 

SCFSue

This was the review I wrote for "Girl on the Train".  Found it safely tucked away in My Documents.

BOOK REVIEW â€" 9-3-15
               
At or near the top of the NYT Best Seller List for several weeks, “The Girl On The Train” by Paula Hawkins seemed to be a shoo-in for my next favorite thriller.  One of the cover blurbs did give me pause when it made a vague comparison to “Gone Girl”.  But what could go wrong when a young woman travelling on a commuter train every day spots a couple on their deck and in their back garden.  She gives them names and fantasizes about their lives,   while her life couldn’t be less perfect.  Nor the lives of those, once or soon to be, close to her.
The narration switches between our commuter Rachel; the female half of the “perfect” couple, Megan, and the woman who has effectively usurped Rachel’s life and happiness, Anna.  No wonder then that Rachel is suffering from depression and alcoholism with accompanying blackouts.
While I waded through the first 51 pages, knowing something had to “happen”, the author is intent on weaving back-stories into the narration, exposing the characters, warts and all, until the reader’s “who really cares about these people” sets in and it becomes do or die…finish the book and find out who done it, or slam the covers closed and let them stew in their own stagnated half-lives.  I finished the book.
jm

After a long, long wait I finally got A Man Called Ove.  I just started The Whistler so will finish it first.  It seems feast or famine with getting these E-loans thru Overdrive and local library.

Tome - Your Girl On the Train review is very good.  Almost makes me wish I had finished it!  I got about a third of the way into the book, closed it, and never opened it again.  One of those stories, where I didn't like, or care what happened, to any of the characters.  There was something distasteful about the story (to me) and I really didn't care to finish it and find out what happened.  I felt exactly the same way about Gone Girl, but I did finish that one. Not only did I not like any of the characters, but I found the story to be ridiculous, and beyond belief. Some of the story lines were flat out preposterous!

Neither one is the style of book that I prefer, but I know I'm in the minority.  As you know, both books were extremely popular, and turned the authors into millionaires. 

FlaJean - Hope you enjoy your E-books, after such a long wait.  When you're finished, you might be interested in reading News Of the World, by Paulette Jiles.   Both Tomereader and I give it the highest of recommendations!

Now who wrote the story on Henrietta Lacks?

Jeanne, here's the amazon web site for the book.  The author is Rebecca Skloot.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00338QENI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

maryz - I'm looking forward to the Henrietta Lacks story, to be shown on HBO.  I saw Oprah's short promo about the movie, and it looks like it will be very good.  I haven't looked on my list of upcoming HBO shows, so I don't know yet when it will be playing.  When I see the date, I'll post it here so that anyone who is interested can watch it.

MaryZ.  I will check and see if that book comes into my library.  I am not buy anymore book for my IPad. Tablets. as I have so many unread on all ready.

I don't get HBO so will not be able to watch on TV.  I like most of what Oprah does.

Jeanne, the book was discussed here a few years ago.  I don't know how to get to that discussion - maybe somebody else can do that.  But this is a link to an interview with the author on BookTV.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?292685-7/immortal-life-henrietta-lacks

Mary.  I think I read something about what the book was about  few years ago.

Something about the Medical illegally using for research from a Black lady years ago.

Don't think I will be reading the book.

Oprah's movie about the Henrietta Lacks story had a two page write up in the Profile section of our Sunday paper.  I can't say now when the movie is coming out but probably sometime soon based on the publicity given yesterday. 

I still haven't gotten a copy of The Man Called Ove and the library doesn't seem to have News of the World so I've been fishing through my already purchased ebooks and am reading one by Willa Cather.  It is a "so-so" book but will do until something better comes along.   

MaryC, do you have a Kindle?  If so, you can get "News of the World" on there.  I think it cost me $1.99 at the time I ordered it. 

Thanks for the tip, Tomereader.    I will check it out.   My library Hoopla program has the review book and others by same author but not that one.   

You can order a Used copy in Good Condition from Half Price Books Marketplace, for $7.50.  They ship quickly and shipping should be $3.95

mary - I hope you can find News Of The World.  I think You'll like it.  The author, Paulette Giles, recommended another book along the same lines, called Captured, by Scott Zesch.  Under the title, it says - "A true story of abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier."  I have it on hold at the library, and will be picking it up today.

I have been reading more this week. One think I read was the Book. or Epilogue as Robert James Waller calls it.  I never knew he had written it. It is the follow up after his book. The Bridges of Madison County.  How every one loved that book.  So I also got the DVD of Bridges and watched it in order to catch up and remember.  All should read this 2nd book if you haven't.  As usual it brings a few tears. I am now reading his. "Slow Waltz at Ceder Bend"  I tend to go back to some of the Older writers at times.

I have not found any favorite writers for awhile. We have lost quite a few of the old ones.

I did not give the name of the Book that follows (Bridges of Madison county) It is Called (A Thousand Country Roads).  Seems like he wrote it a few years after the Bridges.

JeanneP - I remember when everyone was reading The Bridges of Madison County!  I also saw the movie, starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.  That seems like such a long time ago, but it  couldn't have been that long, because both Streep and Eastwood are still busy making movies! I'll have to look it up and see when it was made? 

I just finished rereading Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen.  My daughter read it a couple of weeks ago, and was totally enthralled with the story. She wanted me to read it again, and even brought me the book when she came over on Easter Sunday!  It certainly is a wonderful story, and definitely worth reading again.  The movie is not nearly as good as the book.

Tomorrow, I hope to start Captured, by Scott Zesch.  I also still have What Dreams May Come, by Richard Matheson. 

I have the DVD for "Water for Elephants" from the Library.  I don't think I finished the book.  May watch it today.

After I read Water For Elephants,  I followed Sara Gruen and read most of her other books.    They were all good but likely WFE's was her best.   

I'm still reading Willa Cather's,  One of Ours.    It is a good story and now has moved from the mid-west to France during WWI.    I like the history and the character studies in this story.