Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
This seems to be a book that everyone in a certain age bracket has read. A lot of people have read it, don’t get me wrong, but it seems that every woman over 50 I’ve talked to remembers reading it close to when it came out. It was a big deal. It has multiple movie adaptations. And I can’t really see why. Maybe it’s for the nostalgia. While shelved in the adult section now, it was kind of a YA hit when it came out, […]
I write haiku reviews for all the movies I see, so I’m going to continue that tradition for CBR10…
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Somehow I made it to the ripe old age of (age redacted) without knowing the details of this book. Written in 1979, this story of a family and it’s slow, painful, deconstruction has titillated audiences and will be return to the small screen soon via a Lifetime movie (of course). I was intrigued both because of that, and because they were reviewing it on my favorite Podcast, Literary Disco: their episode description is perfection. “It’s time to take on the book that you all read, […]
