I always like a good cliche, and this tag is full of them! Thanks to The Orangutan Librarian for tagging me!
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A book that wasn’t or couldn’t be better than the movie.
This question comes up a lot, and I always choose the same 2 or 3 books, so let’s do something different this time! The Princess Diaries is a book that I really liked as a young teen, but compared to the movie is awkward and lame. The characters are so much more likable in the movie!
The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side
A Rags to Riches or Riches to Rags Story
Haha, can I choose The Princess Diaries again? In all seriousness, Thomas Cromwell is the original pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps guy, so Wolf Hall is a great example! I’m so nervous to see what happens to him in the third book, whether he’ll fall back down to rags. And I know I could just look it up, but I don’t want to spoil the book for myself! Continue reading “The Cliche Book Tag”