Finding "Love & Luck" with "Rebecca"

It's been a rough couple of weeks; back-to-back conventions and dealing with the aftermath of my mother's death.  It's still hard, but I'm taking it one day at a time.  Reading helps.  I was able to start Jenna Welch's "Love & Luck" during a road trip to Virginia Beach, and I finished reading yesterday afternoon.  It was okay.  I liked her first book, "Love & Gelato," better.  That being said, I think it would be amazing if Welch wrote a third book, entitled "Love & Sushi," and centered it around a trip to Japan.  Perhaps involving just Addie and Rowan this time.  If I'm lucky,  Jenna Evans Welch will see this post and heed my suggestion.  In the meantime, I'll content myself by reading "Rebecca," by Daphne Du Maurier.  Yes, it's a classic.  It was so popular in its day that Alfred Hitchock, the "Master of Suspense" himself, directed a movie based on it.

"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again."
So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past the beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead but never forgotten...her suite of rooms never touched, her clothes ready to be worn, her servant -- the sinister Mrs. Danvers -- still loyal. And as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter began her search for the real fate of Rebecca...for the secrets of Manderley.  

I think I missed something when I watched the movie.  After reading the book, I'll probably go watch it again...I'm hoping reading the book will help me gain a better appreciation for the Hitchcock masterpiece!  In the meantime, I'd better begin my 'journey" with "Rebecca!"