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I’ve finally finished off the third and final installment in the To All The Boys I Loved Before series by Jenny Han. This story, Always and Forever, Lara Jean, wraps up her high school career and her and Kavinsky make decisions on college. This story was probably one of my …

Honestly, I had never heard of this book or this movie until 1) my husband as me if I had ever read the book then 2) my friend and neighbor asked me if I have ever watched the movie.  I knew at that moment the book to movie gods were …

Two months ago I wrote a comparison on To All the Boys I Loved Before from the book to the movie. I had really struggled with the book because I had seen the movie before and the book was incredibly different. Picking up the second book in this series, P.S. …

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 …

In Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the Virgin Queen, but as the fully realized myth she has created by the conclusion of the previous film. Shekhar Kapur also returns to direct, along with writer Michael Hirst, and cinematographer Remi Aderfarasin, but you wouldn’t recognize that the …

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 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 …

This is the first in our new series of book to movie comparisons. We will be posting a new comparison each month comparing a book we have read to the movie version of it, including things that are alike, differences, and comparisons. Enjoy this first one of the book Beautiful …