Hey all I'm back, I just finished reading "Practical Magic" a book by Alice Hoffman. Now, some of you might recall that this is also a movie starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, it's usually on around Halloween. As always with these things the book differs from the movie in some aspects but mostly the story remains the same.
Well how did I come to know that "Practical Magic" wasn't just a movie? Funny story, I was looking for the movie in my local library database, they didn't have the movie but they had the book. This book will captivate you from beginning to end, it's almost...bewitching. The story is wonderful and captivating and absolutely amazing...I can almost hear you saying "Enough with the praise, and the personal anecdotes what's it about?
Well, it's about two sisters, Sally and Gillian Owens who go to live with their aunts after their parents die. The Aunts (Aunt Frances and Aunt Bridget (everyone calls her Jet)) live in Massachusetts in an old house on Magnolia Crescent. The Owens women have lived there for generations and by all accounts Gillian and Sally had a pretty good life living with the Aunts on Magnolia Crescent. But the Aunts were always considered a little weird by everyone in the neighbourhood. everyone was convinced that they were witches. Sally and Gillian had to deal with that all through school, but Gillian runs away with her then boyfriend Jimmy and Sally stays behind, she eventually moves to a different town where nobody knows her or thinks she's a witch and she gets married and has two children. One day tragedy strikes however, shattering her world, not long after that Gillian comes back into her life bringing a whole host of trouble that Sally neither wanted nor expected. Will they be able to work through their issues and their problems? Or will Gillian's past come back to haunt them and hang over them forever? Read on and find out.
As I said, it's a great read, absolutely worth reading, worth savouring. It's magical and captivating and I would definitely recommend that you read it, especially if you're a fan of the movie.
That's all for today folks, I have to go through my library books and figure out which ones to return (I just ordered, like, 6 books online from one of the local bookstores and then I went out and bought more and most of the books I bought were ones I'd borrowed from the library (some are, admittedly, overdue (I know, I have to go return them tomorrow)) But I figured, if I was going to read them anyway I might as well buy them (not all at once obviously) especially if it sounded like, or was, something that I might like to read again *cough* Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell.
As always feel free to leave books for me to read in the comments or suggest them to me via Twitter. See you next time, until then, read on book lovers!
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