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I truely enjoyed the book and after reading it I couldn"t read another for some time. It was a very personal book for me because I was looking for my birth mother at the time ( I was 55 at the time and I was adopted from Germany and came to the US when I was 2) and I could truely identify with the main character.
Recently i read that they were makin a movie of this book and when I read the cast members I was disappointed. When I read i get very visual and I did not picture Queen Latifah etc. Sounds like they wanted star power. It will be very interesting to see how the movie will play out.
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faithjourneywoman, January 15, 2008
I truely enjoyed the book and after reading it I couldn"t read another for some time. It was a very personal book for me because I was looking for my birth mother at the time ( I was 55 at the time and I was adopted from Germany and came to the US when I was 2) and I could truely identify with the main character.Recently i read that they were makin a movie of this book and when I read the cast members I was disappointed. When I read i get very visual and I did not picture Queen Latifah etc. Sounds like they wanted star power. It will be very interesting to see how the movie will play out.
(7 of 17 readers found this comment helpful)