Absolutely. Strawberries and peanuts seemed to be on the menu du jour yesterday ❤️

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, I could not stop thinking about for weeks

I burst into tears at an airport, reading One Day by David Nicholls

And, Le Maître Bonsaï by Antoine Buéno, which contains the most traumatising scene I've ever read

I guess it could be.

There are also shades of Mitch having been somehow protected from "street law" by his older brother, who ends up in prison, (played by the impossibly hot David Strathairn). But they really are just "shades" - his weird naivety is not really resolved, for me at least, on screen

Ah, it's because he's book-clever, not streetwise, I hear you say. But no, Mitch McDeere grew up in a trailer park, so he's streetwise too.

To my shame, I've not read the book. Is the plot hole dealt with?

... Tom Cruise runs really, really fast. But there is one gaping plot hole.

How does a top Harvard law graduate, so good he's being courted by the US's fanciest firms, fail so badly to do his due diligence on his employer? So badly that he gets suckered into the wrong job with some very bad men.

Thank you! ❤️

Great initiative. Thank you. I'd love to connect with more of these folk ❤️

If the crush was worth crushing on I'm sure they saw clearly that the other friend was the fack-head