#Rachel joyce

[monsterintheballroom]

"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" (2023) (x)

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And she was going.

Rachel Joyce, from Miss Benson’s Beetle

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I listened to Rachel Joyce's dramatisation of Jane Eyre on Audible, which passed a couple of hours but I felt was changed just a little too much for my taste. (Who messes with "Reader, I married him" for heaven's sake? I don't care if it's a dramatisation and doesn't make sense. I wanted to hear it 😁)

I thought Amanda Hale did a fine job of Jane falling in love with Rochester and Tom Burke was lovely but he's no good at pretending to be a female fortune teller. Miss Ingram would have recognised his voice and not fallen for the trick. Good to find something he can't do!

I have started listening to Dracula on Audible and rereading The Bell Jar, which I read as a teenager and have almost completely forgotten.

[cinnamonchaos]

On loss

"Because the truth is - we never really lose the people we love. They are in the sunsets, and in the rain, and in the forests, and the laughter, and music that takes out breath away. We never really lose their love, their beauty, because that energy doesn't disappear - it finds new ways to reach you. Pay attention." - B. Sparacino

"On my silent days I miss you a little louder" - C. C. Aurel

"I miss her all the time I know in my head that she is gone The only difference is that I'm getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk around it." - R. Joyce

"I don't like how endings in real like come on so suddenly without making sense, without much warning. One minute you're in the middle of something and the next it's all a very long time ago and you're a different person… and none of it's coming back." - Anon

"Sometimes I miss you more than I remember you" - O. Vuong

"There was a before you and there was a during you. For some reason I never thought there would be an after you. But there was, And I was in it. I'll be in it forever." - C. Hoover

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry (2023)

"A seemingly unremarkable man in his 60s named Harold one day learns his old friend Queenie is dying. He embarks on a walk, only to keep going for 450 miles until he reaches Queenie's hospice, much to the despair of his wife Maureen."

This is a remarkable movie based on the simplest of premises. A man who makes a promise to a friend walk the length of the country to see that friend before they die. I didn't know a lot going into it as I hadn't even seen a trailer, just the poster. I booked it just to see if it was going to be worth watching. It was a good choice.

Hettie Macdonald has made an utterly compelling adaptation of the book by Rachel Joyce. Her style of direction fits this story perfectly, and her choice of shots and storytelling within the movie is just wonderful. At times it feels almost documentary like in its sense of reality. She has made a really wonderful movie.

Jim Broadbent plays the eponymous lead character, and he leads you on an emotional journey as he sets off to walk over 400 miles. Broadbent plays the role with a skill that has been built up over decades of experience, as a British acting legend. It is a performance of which he should be extremely proud. The way he emotes, and deals with, the memories of Harold's son is especially impressive. Penelope Wilton plays Maureen, the long suffering wife of Harold. Another British acting legend she brings an intensity to the role of a woman struggling with what she believes to be a husband walking out on her. Onscreen she struggles with emotional turmoil that would test the best of us.

Overall, this is an emotional, heart warming, movie that also hits you hard in the feels. It is a film that I am going to try and go and see again on the big screen, and I absolutely recommend it to everyone. It's getting a well-deserved 9/10.

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Kimberly Glyder’s book cover for Rachel Joyce’s Miss Benson’s Beetle.

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Summer Reads: Week Six–Bookworm's Sign-Off (For Now)

I learned to read at age four and books have been my constant companions, my solace, my inspiration. They allow me to fall into other worlds, at least temporarily, and especially when I need a healthy escape. Some have found salvation in faith; I’ve discovered mine between the pages. As an adolescent, I devoured movie scripts and plays, dreaming of a life crafting words. After a career in…

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My Books of 2024: "Miss Benson's Beetle" by Rachel Joyce

From Goodreads:

WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE - From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an uplifting, irresistible novel about two women on a life-changing adventure, where they must risk everything, break all the rules, and discover their best selves--together. She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist--the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.

Between Earth and Sky by Amanda Skenandore: historical fiction

Today We Go Home by Kelli Estes: historical fiction, contemporary

Not Your Ex's Hexes by April Asher: paranormal romance

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Title: Perfect | Author: Rachel Joyce | Publisher: Black Swan (2014)

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Es passiert so leicht, dass man sein Leben mit Dingen verbringt für die man kein bisschen brennt und dass man dabei bleibt auch wenn man gar nicht will und es einem nicht gut tut. Aber jetzt war die Zeit des Träumens und Wünschens vorbei, jetzt war sie auf großer Fahrt.

Miss Bensons Reise, Rachel Joyce

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nothing to see here

[monsterintheballroom]

PENNY!!!!!111!111!!! *crying in gay*😭🌈🦄🩷

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📖 Miss Benson’s Beetle, 🖋Rachel Joyce

Finished on 8-9-22

📔 “Two spirited women. One journey to the edge of the world.” Ok, so, I took this book from a free little library in Sacramento. It was a total whim take and I am SO happy I did. A historial adventure fiction that I think could appeal to so many types of readers, like it’s got a lil somethin for everyone. Margery, feeling meaningless, abandons her lonely mundane life in 1950’s London. She pursues an adventure to discover a not yet catalogued beetle, a dream adventure she’s had since she was a kid. The story follows her and her last minute reluctantly hired assistant, Enid Pretty — an eccentric, talkative, beautiful, seize the day kinda lady. The book is so so funny, the story is rich, the character backstories are interesting, there are plot twists that I realllllllyyyy didn’t see coming (and I do low key pride myself on my predictive reading skills). It was a really uplifting friendship story, that is more than a lil gay imo. I was on the edge of my seat, and Full Weeping by the end. A surprising favorite of this year

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Chloe Price's room in Before the Storm

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Joyce: I raised a fully functioning child.

Rachel: *looks at Chloe*

Rachel: *looks back at Joyce* Do you have a child I don't know about?

[everythingcalypso]

I’m back in my Life is Strange arc ❤️