When I reviewed The Queen’s Gambit I talked about how difficult it can be to read the source material after seeing the adaptation. You can’t help but notice what details were altered or left out entirely and as you’re doing so you evaluate those decisions just as much as you react to the text itself. Well, as you can imagine, that was very much still a problem for me while reading this novella. I’ve seen The Shawshank Redemption a number of times, especially in the […]

This is my second read through the series, having read The Drawing of the Three and The Gunslinger a few more times. The first time I read this book was about 8 or so years ago while being a nanny for my newly adopted nephew. He cried a lot and I would sometimes sing to him, or I would sit with him and rock him while playing the audiobook of this aloud for us both to hear. He was an infant, so it was ok. […]