Expecto Patronum then chocolate. Problem solved.
I’ve recently stumbled upon a correlation that is VERY important.
In life, when things go bad and you feel like your soul has been sucked right out of you, you have some chocolate and it makes you feel better.
In Harry Potter after the Dementors come by and do their whole soul-sucking thing, you have some chocolate and it makes you feel better.
HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE?!?!
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Still one of my favorite coming of age in the 21st century tales, I just watched the 2008 film adaptation of Angus, thongs and full-frontal sn
ogging, and I’m not going to lie, I kinda loved it.
Light-hearted as it may be, it still pretty much hits the nail on the head of what every girl is thinking when she meets and falls for a cute new sex-god (and no, not just every 14 year old girl, but every girl-don’t try and play it like its not true ladies). And, as a added bonus the book is hilarity central (more so than the movie, however the movie did have some redeemable moments–including an excellent pick for Georgia Nicolson).
Yeah, so maybe I’m two years too late on this post, but I just watched it and it warmed my heart. So yeah, deal.
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Remember Miffy? A dear friend I like to call Kevin Spacey reminded me of her tonight.
When I was little I used to hate Miffy. Well not so much hated Miffy as I hated the fact that the author/creator of Miffy’s name was Dick Bruna. My name is Bruna, and as a child having the word Dick in front of my name bothered me. Needless to say, I never took these books out at the library.
Two new movies based on books to look forward to. The first is The Time Traveller’s Wife based on the book of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger. The book was absolutely beautiful, one of my all time favourites and the movie doesn’t look like it will be terrible so that’s promising. What isn’t promising is that this film was supposed to have been released last December but got pushed back soo many times (with the excuse that they were waiting for Eric Bana’s hair to grow back in order to finish filming–which begs the questions why didn’t he wait until he finished filming to cut his hair) I’m afraid it might be terrible. Check out the trailer here:
And, The Road based on the book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, also looks quite good. I haven’t yet read the book, but I do own it and plan on reading it before the release of the film this coming fall. Check it out:
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Have you ever read anything by Jodi Picoult? no? well get on it. She’s great! (many thanks to my gal Milene for introducing me to this fantastic author).
Need a place to start? I recommend My Sister’s Keeper. It’s heart-wrenching, and will make you cry, kind of like this year’s season finale of Grey’s Anatomy made me cry. You have to read it quick though. Why? because the movie comes out June 26th, and it looks good (at least the two minutes of trailer I watched).
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My favourite day of the month is always “new magazine day”. This is the day that my Vanity Fair (or ELLE) arrives in the mail. This past Thursday was new magazine day, and after quickly leafing through the pages of this month’s Vanity Fair, I settled in for the slower actually-reading-the-stories-that-interest-me leaf-through. This is when I stumbled upon a short feature on Reif Larsen. Larsen is a first time writer whose manuscript was so in demand ten (that’s right!) publishing houses were bidding for it. Penguin ended up buying it, and the manuscript of the book titled The Selected Works of T.S Spivet sold for just under $1 million. Another testament to the fact that the publishing industry is not dead. The book is to be released May 5th, for a little more on the bidding war click here.
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Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, one of my favourite children’s books, is being made into a movie.
Check out this star studded sure to be a hit lineup:
Director: Spike Jonze
Featuring: Catherin Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, and Forest Whitaker
And if that doesn’t have you excited, check out the movie poster:
Are you as excited as I am?
Do you have a favourite children’s book you’d like to see made into a movie?
UPDATE: There’s a trailer now! Click here to watch it!
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This past weekend I finally got around to watching Confessions of a Shopaholic, (judge me, I know you want to) and while I didn’t expect to be pleased by this film, because I quite enjoyed the book, I also didn’t expect how dissapointed I was.
It’s simple (or at least in my mind it is), this was not a difficult book to turn into a movie. This was not Jose Saramago’s Blindness (which while in movie format wasn’t fantastic, it wasn’t terrible).
This is what should have happened in this film:
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This is a lovely list of books I’ve purchased in the last week that I can’t afford to buy and don’t have time to read. click HERE to see them, you know you want to.
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If you’re anything like me, then you love it when a good book gets destroyed on the silver screen (Hearts in Atlantis), or the not as likely opposite, when a really bad book (like so bad you wonder how this person got a publisher) becomes a redeemable movie (The Notebook). Actually, if you’re anything like me, then you just love it when books get made into movies, period.
Which brings me to the movie adaptation of the book He’s Just Not That Into You. The book, written in 2004 by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo is inspired by an episode of Sex and the City in which Berger (Carrie’s boyfriend at the time) explains to Miranda that men ARE in fact very simple creatures. If post-date you invite him in and he does not come in, then, as Berger puts it: “He’s just not that into you,” adding, “When a guy’s really into you, he’s coming upstairs, meeting or no meeting.”
I have not read the book. I have not watched the movie. In fact, I’ve decided that I will be boycotting both. Why? Because I refuse to believe that it is THAT simple. I refuse to believe that the actions of half the human race can be described in one six word sentence.
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