Tina's Teaser

I just got through reading North and South by Elizabeth Glaskell.   It was written around 1854 and made more widely known by the BBC mini-series North and South.  (I'm just assuming this . . . maybe it WAS widely know, just not by me!)

I recently watched the mini-series on Netflix while sick with the flu.  I would NEVER sit around and watch TV that long unless I were sick!  I can read for hours and not feel a guilty bone in my body for sitting around . . . . because my mind is busy right?  Even if my body isn't.  I guess it is the same for TV, but I just feel differently about it.

This book was originally a 20 series magazine article for a woman's magazine, way back when.  They added to the magazine articles and stuck them together to make the book.

I think it was best to watch the mini-series and THEN read the book.  The BBC version really follows the book, except for two major things.  One, (if you are familiar with the movie) where Mr. Thornton beats a worker senseless for smoking in his factory (didn't happen in the book).  And two, how they got together at the end (TOTALLY different!) 

I loved reading the book AFTERwards because it goes more in depth about the feelings of the two main characters.  I especially enjoyed the thoughts of Mr. Thornton.  Nice! 

I'm not sure I would have liked the book without the movie . . . . but that is the way it happened for me. . . . .

 Worth a read and a watch . . . . just my 2 cents!!