Earlier this year I told you how I had read The Thursday Murder Club for a work book club discussion.

Because of that book discussion I learned that later in the summer there was going to be a Netflix adaptation of the book.

Sure enough, the movie came out something like late last week, and I watched it over the Labor Day Weekend.

I honestly wasn’t sure what to make of it - I didn’t know if I was enthusiastic enough about the book to sit and enjoy the movie.

But it was a pretty good movie.

I thought it was very well-paced - I was into it the whole time and never got bored.

I doubt I would have been interested in the movie if I hadn’t read the book…but now that I’ve watched it I would recommend it even if someone hadn’t read the book. I thought it was that enjoyable.

The cast helps - it’s a very good group of actors, and they bring to life the characters from the book the way I imagined them.

It’s directed by Chris Columbus and done by Amblin Entertainment -when I saw that I figured it would be good.

It’s interesting because as faithful as the movie was to the characters themselves, there were some significant plot differences between the book and the movie.

There was one entire plot line that was dropped, which makes sense - you can’t keep everything from a book in a movie unless you’re looking at a 4-hour movie. And there were other little details that were ignored without affecting the story.

But there was one significant even in the movie that was completely different from the book that made me wonder why they made the move they did.

It didn’t impact the movie negatively - it just made it stand apart from the book. I’m sure with something like this the author gave an OK for that kind of change, so if it’s OK with him, it’s OK with me.

I am not sure I’m going to be able to make the follow-up discussion about the movie with my co-workers. The first discussion was at the point of the summer where nothing else was going on, and now we’re at a point where everything is starting up again.

But maybe they can read this and they’ll see what I thought.