Lots happening this month in Jodi Picoult (PEA-koe) land. On Monday, USA Today ran a great profile piece on her idyllic sounding family life in Hanover, New Hampshire; Handle With Care, her 16th novel was released on Tuesday; and the movie version of My Sister’s Keeper starring Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin (Fans are apparently [...]
If you’ve never read Moby Dick, you might want to first start with Nathaniel Philbrick’s true account In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. After all, the sinking of the Essex was the inspiration for Melville’s Moby Dick. Variety reports that both books are currently in development (Hollywood speak for coming [...]
February 27, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Last night, I ventured out to hear Abraham Verghese read from his new book Cutting for Stone at Elliott Bay Book Co. You know a very special author is in town when Rick Simonson is on hand to greet and introduce the author of the evening. Unlike some authors that seem to travel through town [...]
February 19, 2009 – 11:52 am
This past week I went with a couple of friends of mine to see ‘The Reader’ which is up for best picture. Note: If you have not seen the movie and plan to do so, you might want to skip reading the rest of this. Only one of us had read the book byprior to [...]
October 7, 2008 – 6:10 pm
Out now…
9/12 NIGHTS IN RODANTHE based on the book by Nicholas Sparks
9/19 THE DUCHESS based on the book GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE by Amanda Foreman
9/26 BLINDNESS based on the book by Jose Saramago
9/26 CHOKE based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk
9/26 MIRACLE AT ST ANNA based on the [...]
I usually only blog about movies that are adaptations of a book I’ve read and liked. I’m taking artistic license by recommending a wonderful French movie with a literary theme written by the prolific director Claude Lelouch that I saw this past weekend. “Roman De Gare”, roughly translated “airport novel”, [...]
February 23, 2008 – 7:43 pm
The Academy Awards are tomorrow night and Oscar’s affect on book world is already being felt.
Julie Christie’s biography is being rush-released in the wake of her nomination for ‘Best Actress’ in Away From Her.
Ian McEwan has been in the news commenting favorably about the book to film adaptation of Atonement which is up for [...]
January 24, 2008 – 4:58 pm
Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, is also the title of Marjane Satrape’s graphic memoir that has just been made into an animated film out this weekend and getting rave reviews. “Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood”(2003) and it’s sister book “Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return”(2005) tells of growing up in the aftermath of [...]
January 8, 2008 – 2:17 pm
You never know how your favorite book will be portrayed on the big screen. It looks like the majority of this year’s current crop of films are getting good reviews from the critics. The following ratings come from metracritic.com. Now all I need is some popcorn.
Thumbs Up:
92 There Will Be Blood (Oil! by [...]
