About a month ago I read an interesting article about the upcoming movie Labor Day, with Kate Winslet. I generally think everything Kate Winslet does is worth seeing, so when I found this book for $1 at my library, it seemed like a find. I was wrong. I should have realized from the cover of…
I liked the movie but not as much as I expected to. I loved the book. The movie was well-cast, well-acted, and rose way above the typical rom-com. And yet… it was, in the end, a “dance movie”. Why do movies insist on acting like dancing will heal everyone’s problems? Without going into a lot…
I hadn’t heard of this book until the movie came out and got so much Oscar-attention. Then I came across the book in the library and was intrigued: it’s a hefty hardback with a spine about three inches across, yet it’s the recipient of a Caldecott award (the award for best picture books). But open…
On Thursday I finished up Clash of Kings and thought, okay, enough with the fantasy for a while, I should turn to some books that are a little more (a) realistic and (b) literary. Then I went to the library and found a Terry Pratchett book in paperback I’d been wanting to read (A Hatful…
It’s Top Ten Tuesday time at The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s question is, what ten books would we like to see made into movies? This is a difficult question for me to answer, because when I love a book I don’t want to see it made into a movie. Movies at best…
This week’s Top Ten over at The Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Book to Movie Adaptations. This is an easy one since my shelves are full of these movies, and, especially since I was very recently watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice and being amazed all over again at how good…
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