Books to Movies/TV

I had heard about the movie Dumpin’ when it first came out.  It was never really on my radar so I kind of pushed it from my memory.  Go forward a little bit and I found the book the movie…

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne follows the story of a young boy who lives near the Auschwitz Concentration Camp with his family as his father is a soldier in the Nazi army. The first little difference…

I had this in my to-be-read pile for months.  I picked it up at my hometown’s local used bookstore.  I am not normally a spooky/thriller reader but this looked intriguing.  I had it on my list of book to movie…

I will be honest I have been avoiding this book because I thought that it will be creepy.  I am not one for thrillers and stuff like that and try to avoid them at all costs.  I have found an…

Being a book lover, I always read the book before the movie. But much to my sadness, I didn’t know that The Book Thief was a book until long after I first watched the movie. But as soon as I…

I had had this movie on my Amazon wish list for months.  I wanted something new and fun to watch.  Finally bit the bullet and got it.  I watched it a few days later and was hooked from the very…

Before I go any further in this book to movie review, let me just say I am embarrassed to say that I only just read the book a few weeks ago.  I watched the movie when it came out and didn’t…

I had seen this book around but never read it.  I don’t know why it is something that I would read.  Maybe it was the cover of the book that put me off.  A woman with oversized glasses and that…

I was recently in a used bookstore in my hometown when I was browsing the fiction section of the store and saw laying on a shelf The Great Gatsby.  I immediately thought that it would be the perfect book to do…