Again, I read this book because of the upcoming (at the time) movie that was based on it. I loved the book and the movie was just fine, except the movie was much more upbeat than the book, especially the ending.

Barely worthy of a blog post, this smaller than a small novella was free. It was a prequel to another Allen book — I don’t remember which one.  I only counted it because I was desperate for books on my reading challenge list.

Definitely read this because of the movie that got stellar reviews on the Washington Post — at least Glenn Close’s performance did.

Book was very good movie was okay. Glenn Close’s performance was not Academy Award worthy though, in my opinion — which is what the Post article was all about.