Book to Movie Reviews

I want to start by saying I actually watched the movie before I read the book, which is not something I typically do. I had heard the hype of the movies and decided to watch them anyway. I didn’t even realize they were books at first. Warning… if you have …

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 is based on at a Goodwill store that I was …

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 is that they never say Auschwitz. It’s assumed, but Bruno …

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 review and decided that this fall I was going to …

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 found out, I knew I had to read it. recently …

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 beginning.   I have watched it multiple times since and my …

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 even realize it was a book.  I did however by …

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 is it.  However, when I saw the trailer for the …

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 a book to movie comparison.  I read the book in …