![]() It wasn't that hard to cut his storyline, creator Scott Neustadter tells Town & Country. ![]() You’re welcome to put this in your book but that’s going to have to be it for me." I’m nearing seventy but I’m still looking forward, okay? I’m not looking back. I own my own artificial turf installation company now. I don’t have any ill will toward anyone or anything. He's barely in the book, and only has one quote, near the end, where he says, "I don’t have much to say about any of this. And he's the first one to decide to leave the band. Pete also has a serious girlfriend, Jenny, and is roommates with Eddie in Topanga Canyon. In the book, he goes to school with Billy and Graham, and he's the band's bassist. Pete, a member of the band in the book, is not a character in the show. ![]() Here, the biggest differences between the book and the show so far: 1. "If I could bottle what happens between Sam and Riley and the way that they light up the screen and pour it over the pages of a book, I would, but I can't, and the only way you're going to get that is by watching this show." "When I'm writing a book, there's nothing that I can do to capture chemistry like these actors have," she says. For Reid, the biggest change for her from page to screen was not the cut of a character or a change in story, but the chemistry between the two leads. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Perspectives shift as the book meanders back and forth through time and between characters and I was stuck trying to figure out what it all means. The major problem is that this book never really makes that answer clear, or tells you what the hell it really is. ![]() In a lot of ways this is a successful tactic, because even though I didn’t get this book completely I found myself continuing to read it just because I wanted to know what was behind the videotapes. The ominous tone of the book reminds you of the feeling you get when you watch a David Lynch movie or The Ring, though the plot is not as straightforward. The only word I can think to describe this book is cerebral, because the disturbing imagery it describes does manage to rattle your brain and leave you with a sense of impending danger. He shares the videos with the store’s manager, Sarah Jane, and she eventually becomes drawn into the discovering their origin, the farmhouse where it was made, as well as the mysterious woman behind them. ![]() The scenes appear to be poorly shot home movies with people being controlled by others in masks. At first Jeremy, a young employee, brushes it off, but when he watches the videos for himself it greatly disturbs him. It’s the 1990’s, and someone is placing disturbing images on VHS tapes at the local Video Hut in the small town of Nevada, Iowa. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each day, Nate and Emily go to the island to see how the loons are getting along, and to see if any new loons have been born because Grandma is no longer capable of making the trip over. Grandma Lilah is in charge of the local chapter of the Loon Preservation Committee. Nate reveals that the island in the lake is a nesting place for loons, which are endangered birds in New Hampshire. Nate and his family – including older sister Emily and Grandma Lilah – are from New Jersey and are only up to the lake for the summer. However, she quickly befriends the boy at the cottage next door, Nate. ![]() ![]() Dad is a famous photographer who is set to head out on yet another trip, and will be the judge for a photo scavenger hunt competition upon his return. When the novel begins, Lucy, Mom, Dad, and their dog, Ansel, have just moved into a New Hampshire lake cottage near the town of North Conway. Half a Chance is a children’s novel by Cynthia Lord in which 12-year-old aspiring photographer Lucy befriends 12-year old Nate whose grandmother is slowly slipping into dementia. NOTE: The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Lord, Cynthia. ![]() ![]() Any backordered components will ship separately as they become available. In-stock components will ship according to our normal shipping time. ![]() When you order a package, you are charged one price for all package items. ![]() Because most package items or components are also sold separately and may be components of multiple packages, these items may not have the same inventory availability at any point in time. Although packages are sets, items are not physically bundled together. Any item sold as a package on our website is identified by a unique alpha-numeric item number (such as "APH1AB"). ![]() A listing of individual items that make up a package is provided on the package item's product detail page along with real-time item availability of those items. A "package" is made up of two or more items sold as a set, often for a reduced price. ![]() |