Books Tasted - Everything bookly (and a few other things)

I watched Marie Antoinette, the movie starring Kirsten Dunst and directed by Sofia Coppola, a few months ago. The movie almost felt like it didn't have a plot; it meandered from scene to scene without any feel of cohesion and when it was over,  I felt like I had just watched one of those videos of a log burning in a fireplace - it was like opening the door to someone's daily life without gaining a whole lot of insight into why they are doing what they do.

This is one of those rare instances where I saw the movie before I read the book. Normally, I'd probably prefer one over the other or pick out all the details that were different between them and tsk tsk appropriately. But in this case, the book and the movie are so different that they're really two different beasts.