Perfect addition to the romantic musical genre. IT took me back to the musicals of the 40’s and 50’s. Ewen McGreggor and Nicole Kidman were wonderful together. I feel in love with Your Song all over again after he sang it to her.

I loved watching Finn emerge in this movie. A man who would be happy being a hermit learns the joys of sharing his life with the crazy gang of people. As a librarian i loved the closing scene and the quote “Take off those glasses, let that bun down and the books will fly!”

Ever since I read Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo I have read everything he has written and have always enjoyed his books. He did not dissapoint me with this selection of stories about Carlucci.

The time period is somewhere in the near future. The world is more populated and rougher than today’s world. Russo does not explain everything about his world so I felt like a visitor to a new place. I enjoyed that feeling. Russo does not always solve every problem in his stories nor does he give everyone a happy ending. The stories are real and the characters are very believable.