The Price of Salt, or Carol Resources

This website does the thinking for you, and picks a Patricia Highsmith book based on a few simple questions. Or you can rig the system and make it choose The Price of Salt for you (just select United States, all over the place, avoid a murder altogether).

The film adaptation, titled Carol, is more geared for Oscar season than the Christmas season, if this pre-release buzz is to be believed.

Author Justine Larbalestier seems to have fallen in love at first sight with the book. But Carol? Not so much, in Larbalestier's opinion.

The AfterEllen.com book club worked their way through the book, the character of Carol, and tried to figure out what's up with the title. (Hey ladies, we can help.)

Like Carol, Cate Blanchett doesn't feel the need to label her own sexual orientation.

Malinda Lo, author of a Sapphic Cinderella novel, also read The Price of Salt and added her own opinion to the salty stew.

Karen, who reads books and things on YouTube, talks about Carol and things.

This vlogger read the book as part of her Book to Film Challenge

The Bolshoi Ballet performs Petrushka, which Thereshka (that's Russian-ish for Therese) wants to design sets for in the book.

Therese plays Scarlatti's Sonata in C Major like this man, but without the moustache.

Living as a lesbian in the 1950s isn't easy, making Therese's favorite song, "Easy Living" by Billie Holliday, an ironic choice.

Therese also likes Holliday's "Embraceable You," because she finds Carol embraceable, irreplaceable, etc.

We didn't know you could see constellations from within New York City, but maybe it was darker in the 1950s when Therese gazes at Orion.

Someone should throw this book over their left shoulder for luck.

All that scandal for only thirty-five cents.