What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Ent]

things that seem like math!

The good news is, this 'math' is rather linear.. though some of it reverse linear... and will only require you to use 10 paws plus one toepad.

 

[Olorgando]

I think I might read The Wizard of Oz next.

Just got the edition illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger.
But right now, I'm reading this post about possibly
reading The Wizard of Oz.

I haven't read the book, and only seen snippets of the 1939 film starring Judy Garland - but enough of the latter to know that Bert Lahr played the Cowardly Lion. Which makes me wonder if Zwerger was influenced by Lahr's portrayal. Was the Cowardly Lion described as walking on his hind legs in the book?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Not originally.

 

[Ent]

Was the Cowardly Lion described as walking on his hind legs in the book?

No. The Lion is always pictured as being a regular Lion...large - 'as big as a small horse.'
There are many, many differences between the book and the movie... as is usual.

Among them, there are no 'ruby shoes'. The shoes were Silver in the book. But Silver was not so dramatic when filmed, so they were changed.

the movie also contains some 'leftover' partial scenes originally intended to be included in full, but cut out. they make no sense standing alone, as there is no 'point of reference'. But they go largely unnoticed.

One, for example, is the scene where they're walking through the forest, with one carrying a large bug-net, and one carrying a large bug-spray apparatus. Not knowing the scene in the book from which this comes, it makes no sense to have them walking around with those two things, for that one brief scene... but then being without them ever afterward.

Another is, have you ever wondered why there is a wicked witch of the east and west, but only one good witch in the movie? Well, the book has two good witches.. .North and South of course.

There are entire peoples, events, creatures etc. in the book not existent in the movie.

Again we just see a movie can rarely do a book justice... each must be taken on its own merits, and enjoyed for what it is, rather than trying to press it into what it is not.

 

[Elthir]

In the 1980s I saw The Wizard of Oz on the big screen! For me it had a different [vague description alert] "feel" to it. I enjoyed it!

Also, for the big screen version Toto is played by an Irish Wolfhound. For the obvious reason

🐾

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business: A Memoir By Dick van Dyke

 

[Deimos]

. . .
There are many, many differences between the book and the movie... as is usual.

Among them, there are no 'ruby shoes'. The shoes were Silver in the book. But Silver was not so dramatic when filmed, so they were changed.

. . .

Ruby slippers are so much more glitzy....and they make a very impressive doorstop 😉😁

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Plus, "ruby" slippers are worth stealing. 🙄😄

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/style/ruby-slippers-returned-wizard-oz-stolen-cec/index.html

 

[Ent]

I confess, I would never have thought of these reasons for changing from silver to ruby..!!

 

[Eljorahir]

Ruby slippers are so much more glitzy....and they make a very impressive doorstop 😉😁

And, if you want to show off your new-fangled Technicolor®, ruby might be better than silver.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I normally avoid posting a subject more than once, but having the impression book people skip some of our other media subs, for those who've read "Shadow and Bone" or other works by Leigh Bardugo (I haven't) here's an interesting interview, where she discusses her new book, and her processes in research and world-building:

Miracles, mystery, and magic in Leigh Bardugo's 'The Familiar'

Unlike most of Bardugo’s books, “The Familiar” is aimed at adults.

the1a.org

 

[greyssy]

I just finished The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt.

 

[H0bb1t4]

I finished "The Fellowship of the Ring" last week and plan on picking up on Philippa Gregory's Cousins War series continuing with "The White Queen."

 

[Alice]

The Hobbit

 

[izzue]

Myth Maker by Anne E. Neimark

What was Tolkien like as a child? And throughout his life, “as a man, a soldier and a scholar, a husband and a father”? These are the questions posed by the biographer.

One of the things I love most about Tolkien are his drawings. And the little book of Christmas drawings and letters from Santa that he made for his children as they ere growing up. I’d love to have been able to know this man who was such a genius in so many different areas.

 

[Vorondil]

I've just started my annual reread of all Tolkien's books that I own. Starting with the Silmarillion.

 

[LaurelinBearsFruit]

Currently reading Strong Like Water by Aundi Kolber.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

 

[LaurelinBearsFruit]

Its late spring here which means time to start my annual re-read of TH, LOTR, and SIL! A few chapters into TH already

 

[Ent]

Currently still reading/researching the Harry Potter series - and confess to having laid in several other of Rowling's works, Most particularly the Fantastic Beasts/Grindelwald things, as they deal with a young Dumbledore into the bargain. Need to check the veracity of the continuity between the younger and the older. (I also finally watched the two Fantastic Beasts movies, as a backdrop to the reading this last weekend. They are...well...movies. Much like any, we take them for what they are, not for what we wish they might be.)

Most of my reading is in the arena of Diabetes right now. As usual, there is much agreement in the 'science' spoken to with regard to it, and much upon which various 'medical experts' don't entirely agree. The good news is... well... they agree sugar is bad.

One thing's certain... if the 'portion sizes' touted by the FDA are maintained, we WILL all end up being as thin as toothpicks.

Unfortunately, most of the toothpicks I've known have been dead.