Prompt: A book set in a retirement community

[Stina]

Bubba Ho-Tep has been recommended to me for this prompt. Any other suggestions?

[Xanthi]

This was a book? I've seen the film but didn't know it was a book...

[Stina]

Xanthi wrote: "This was a book? I've seen the film but didn't know it was a book..."

Hmmm....I don't know. This says it's a "companion book." Maybe that's a new way of saying "novelization"? I've found a book called Murder in Retirement, so perhaps I should try that first.

[Xanthi]

Have you seen the film? Funny and odd!

[Cheryl]

This one was puzzling me, although it sounded like a nice change of pace from my usual reading. Glad to see there are some suggestions here.

[Stina]

Xanthi wrote: "Have you seen the film? Funny and odd!"

No, I haven't, but it sounds entertaining. I may check it out even if I don't read the book.

[Stina]

Cheryl wrote: "This one was puzzling me, although it sounded like a nice change of pace from my usual reading. Glad to see there are some suggestions here."

There is also Mike Befeler's "Geezer-Lit" mystery series. I've read the first one, Retirement Homes Are Murder, and it wasn't really my thing, but ymmv.

The book that inspired this prompt was Stephen King's The Green Mile, so that would definitely work. It also counts as "story within a story" for one of the other challenges. PopSugar or Read Harder, I don't remember which.

[Cheryl]

The Green Mile was set in a retirement community?! That is one way to look at prison, I suppose. :)

I can't do it -- King is too vivid of a writer for me -- usually about things I don't want to have vivid images of.

[Xanthi]

I have The Green Mile on my TBR. I've seen the film. No retirement community connection, as far as I can remember??

[Stina]

I haven't watched the film, but the book (published as a serial originally) is a frame story. The frame is the narrator writing his memoirs in a retirement home, and each segment opens and closes there. As the story progresses, you see the past encroaching more and more on the present until the two narratives mesh at the end.

[Xanthi]

Ah! I see! Will have to dig it out then. Thanks!

[Mary]

I read "These Foolish Things" by Deborah Moggach. It is better known as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel".

[Stina]

I ended up reading Murder in Retirement. It pretty much sucked. Not as badly as Murder at the Male Revue, but pretty close.