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Dreaming of Manderly…

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

May 20, 2021 by chelz.hawk 2 Comments

“I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same, even the sun would be changed in the sky, casting another shadow…” The narrator crosses paths with Maxim DeWinter while in Monte Carlo serving as a companion to the abhorrent Mrs. Van Hopper.  When Mrs. Van Hopper falls ill, our young female finds herself spending more and more time with the mysterious Maxim.  At first all […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Book to movie, Daphne Du Maurier, Fiction, intrigue, novel, Rebecca

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Book to movie, Daphne Du Maurier, Fiction, intrigue, novel, Rebecca ·
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I’m not going far. I’ll always be here. Just an inch away. I promise. (listicle)

Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott

July 19, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This was a book I didn’t know existed until it showed up on two lists, as though the universe wanted my Listicle bingo square filled.  Some website, probably Barnes and Noble, had a list of young adult books turned into movies, and as An Old, I had never heard of either the book or the movie. A coworker also had it in her to-be-read pile. As today was a slow day at work and I accidentally brought a book in today for my lunch break […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Book to movie, cbr2011bingo, listicle, rachel lippincott

octothorp's CBR11 Review No:54 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Book to movie, cbr2011bingo, listicle, rachel lippincott ·
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What to do when both the title and the back blurb are lies

John Dies at the End by David Wong

February 17, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 4 Comments

I’m not sure what I was expecting when I picked up John Dies at the End. I think maybe a little bit of Welcome to Night Vale mixed with Sandman Slim, and possible a bit of Men in Black. This book is not any of those things, either in combination or alone. I should also admit that I have not seen the movie, don’t remember having heard of it before, and definitely have no plans to ever watch it now. I did not really enjoy […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, Book to movie, David Wong, Fiction, horror, John Dies at the End

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, Book to movie, David Wong, Fiction, horror, John Dies at the End ·
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Can a book be lighthearted if people get eaten in it?

July 8, 2016 by Walking Widdershins 2 Comments

Yet another book I’ve read with my kid. I promise you that I’m also reading grown-up books, but I just haven’t reviewed most of them yet (I’m over 30 reviews behind – I am not proud of that). And this is one I can wholly endorse. We picked it up because the whole family wants to see the movie. Now that I’ve read it (not sure how I missed it when I was a kid), I want to see it even more.  But I would […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #BFG, #RoaldDahl, Book to movie, CBR8

Walking Widdershins's CBR8 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #BFG, #RoaldDahl, Book to movie, CBR8 ·
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