So, I hope I'm not the only one who picked up on the ummm....."similarity" (read blatant rip-off) between these two stories; two crotchety old men, supposedly quite wealthy, take on random person (people) from broken homes and turn them into normal functioning people (at least I assume that's going to happen). Thankfully I liked Secondhand Lions, so the formulas all good with me. I mean, I'm sure most of you know that my desire in life is to become a grumpy old man, so I always enjoy a good story glorifying that ideal. Anyway, I wonder which came first, since the formula is just soooooo close.
Anyway, I have to say through 5 chapters, I was a bit bored by the little random snippets that were all over the place, but since I was not feeling great this morning, I read the next 5 already and the story really starts to build on itself. Its going to take some discipline to not read the rest of the book today. We'll see...
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If you do read it all in one weekend, you wouldn't be the first to do so!
~Emily~
never saw secondhand lions, so no clue if it bears much similarity.
*raises hand* yup, that's me. the crazy girl who read the whole book in a weekend.
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