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What I'm reading: My Sister's Keeper

As you know, due to my addiction with the game Words with Friends, I haven't been reading as much as I would like to these days. But I'm happy to report that I did just finally finish the one and only book I've read this summer (how pathetic am I?).

I know I'm about six years late and a dollar short, but I finally read the book My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and it was really good. I haven't read a Jodi Picoult book yet that I haven't loved. If by some slim chance you, too, have been living under a rock and haven't read the book yet, I highly recommend you do so!

As usual, I have not allowed myself to watch the movie, starring Cameron Diaz, which came out in 2009, until I read the book first. I always like reading the book first, a lesson learned by my mom very early in life. So now, I've read the book and I really want to watch the movie but after several failed attempts, I'm beginning to realize, things just aren't what they used to be when it comes to the world of movie watching.

In 2001, if I wanted to watch a movie, I would have walked a block from my dad's house in Shelby to the local video store, appropriately named Rack-of-Videos, found the movie on the wall, grabbed the little circle tag with it's name on it, taken it to the counter and they would have handed me the movie.

In 2011, there is not one video store in my current city of North Olmsted, so there goes the idea of walking up the block to rent the movie. As a result of their recent price increase and new subscription plans, we no longer have the option for DVD rentals by mail from Netflix (poop on you, Netflix). We stuck with the internet streaming plan because we use it much more than the video rentals. But just my luck, My Sister's Keeper isn't available to watch instantly through Netflix.

Next, I decided to try the on-demand movies from our digital cable. No luck. Turns out they only have really old movies or really new movies and nothing in between. After strike three, I decided to try the RedBox movie rentals that you see outside of gas stations and grocery stores. Strike four. They didn't have the movie available either.

What does a girl have to do to watch a movie these days?!?! So my options are, drive to one of my neighboring cities to the few Blockbuster movie rental stores that still exist, or just buy the freaking movie on amazon.com. I have to say, as hypocritical as it is since it's digital-movie watchers like me that have led to it's demise, I really miss the old days of walking around a video store and picking out movies to watch with your parents, friends, boyfriends or now, husband.

The truth is, though, I haven't stepped foot into a video rental store in three years (and then only because we were missing a Dexter DVD halfway through season 2 and like an addict needs drugs, we needed the disk IMMEDIATELY. If you've seen Dexter, you know what I'm talking about). Now I'm kind of wishing I had done my part to keep video rental stores in business.

After reading rave reviews about the book and movie over at Running In Stilettos, I just started reading the book The Help.  If I didn't have motivation to read it quickly before, the pressure to finish it as soon as possible is definitely on. Now that I know how challenging it might be to watch the movie after it's no longer playing in theaters, I must finish the book and go to the theaters, before it's too late. So why am I blogging when I should be reading?

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Ericabee said…
I am about to read the help too. And I am hoping that when I have free time this winter I can figure out what this whole Dexter craze is all about!

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