Read These Fall Books Before the Movies Come Out
Because book lovers know the real joy of seeing
a movie is....having read the novel or memoir first.
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This Is Where I Leave You
By Jonanthan Tropper
352 pages;
Plume
The story of this warm, comic novel—a
family and all its dysfunction gathers to sit shiva for seven
days—makes for a warm, comic movie. Add to that: Tina Fey stars!! But
it's the one-liners that make the book so funny and wonderfully, achingly
painful, such as when Tropper writes, "You
have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and
stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true,
just as I know that pretty much no one can do it."
— Leigh Newman
Published 08/28/2014