When I was a girl, one of my dreams was to become an astronaut. I don’t know if it was a desire born from all those early mornings my dad would get us up to watch the rocket launches or all those field trips to the space museum, or maybe it was watching all those…
Category Archives: Sci Fi/Fantasy
Evermore and Blue Moon: The Immortals
I’ve recently listened to the first two books in the Immortals series by Alyson Noel, courtesy of MacMillan Audio. It’s obvious that these books are being published to give Twilight-obsessed teens (and adults??) some new reading fodder. Though I haven’t read the Twilight books, I understand that they have universal appeal. I would think that…
Sea Changes
Sea Changes by Gail Graham is one of those books that is not adequately represented by a short description. A couple of years after losing her husband, Sarah is still aimless. She has moved into a smaller, more affordable house. Her daughter, while generally unsympathetic, is trying to encourage her to move on. Sarah doesn’t…
Books on Screen: Children of Men
I read The Children of Men by P.D. James last year, because I knew I wanted to see the film, and because I had heard so many good things about Ms. James’ work. This was my first experience with her writing, but I have since read some of her mysteries, and she has become a…
The Dopple Ganger Chronicles: The First Escape
I have never, ever read a graphic novel before and probably couldn’t have told you what one was before reading The First Escape (The Dopple Ganger Chronicles). Published by Tyndale House Publishers, this book took me on a wild ride. I’m really not sure what I think about graphic novels to tell you the truth….
Books on Screen: The Princess Bride
Even though The Princess Bride movie is told as a bedtime story, many fans of the popular movie do not realize that the movie is based on a book. According to Wikipedia my crack-internet research, the book was written in 1973 by William Goldman, and he also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 movie. It’s…
Books on Screen: Eragon
Eragon or seen the film and don’t want anything spoiled for you, stop reading. I’m about to go on a rant about how the film managed to take a brilliant book and utterly destroy it.) The book is a coming-of-age story before it is anything else. Yes, there is a dragon, there is magic, there…
Brisingr, by Christopher Paolini
Well, this is the first time in awhile that I have gotten a book the day it was released. My siblings-in-law are big fans of Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle so I was glad to stay on top of things and be aware of the new book’s release date! (I’m good for something as an in-law, right?)…
On Reading — We’re Wild About Harry
Back when the Harry Potter books began to gain popularity — or perhaps I should say that they began to become inescapably popular — I was often faced with the “To allow it or not to allow it” question. Amanda was too young to be interested in them on her own, and I felt that…
Books on Screen:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Dawn’s and Heather’s recent posts about rarely enjoying a movie after reading a book garnered a lot of cyber nods of affirmation. I too have the same problem with accepting seemingly random changes to beloved books when they are adapted for the screen. My hard and fast rule for avoiding too much disappointment is to…
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