![]() ![]() She had big dreams of going to Atlantic City. Teenage Sonora lived with her Aunt Helen and little sister in a small town in Georgia, during The Great Depression, after Sonora’s parents had got the fever and died. (You’ll understand if you’ve seen the movie, if not WATCH IT!!) An incredibly remarkable true story of Sonora Webster, Diving Girl….and her brave horse Lightening. This episode of BehindTheNerdyGirl, I’m sharing with you the second movie I was lucky enough to see in the cinema. The first movie I ever saw in the theater was a Disney movie, so was the second. Overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone.I have a great love for Disney movies, just as a lot of people do. like how she cut her own hair, and her mom made her wear a bag over her head, and how she didn't want to bow after diving. It was funny to see the little things the movie did keep in her story. I kept waiting for Sonora's husband, Al, to figure more prominently into the book as a loving husband and companion, but he was barely mentioned. Finally, (and I realize this is my issue), I had a hard time letting go of how the characters were portrayed in the movie. Also, the book was really poorly written. Second, I'm not a huge fan of horses, so all the descriptions of the horses and their personalities were really boring. It seemed to be a hastily thrown together reprint of the first edition, and it was just unpleasant to look at. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the movie has not lost all of its charm over the years, and even more surprised when my sister discovered that the real life person the main character is based on had written an autobiography. ![]() I recently re-watched the movie Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, which was one of my favorite movies as a kid. ![]()
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