I love Frances McDormand and Amy Adams but I didn’t love this movie. Was it because I didn’t have enough money to buy popcorn? The costumes and the sets were fabulous, but I just couldn’t get into the story.
Day: April 20, 2008
The Abstinence Teacher. Tom Perrotta
Ruth is the high school health teacher forced to adapt an abstinence-based curriculum. Tim is a recovering alcohol and drug user trying to hold on to the sobriety he found when he started attending a local evangelical church. The book throws these two characters together at a point of adversity and then examines how their interactions affect their lives.
This book was readable enough, with the well developed characters I am used to from Tom Perrotta. However, I felt that the point at which the book ended was the ideal starting point for the story. All that came before it seemed like a very long set up without a payout.