Since I’m a massive book lover, whenever I hear news about books being adapted into films or television shows, I instantly become nervous; especially when they’re adaptations of books that I have read and enjoyed! There are a lot of adaptations coming in 2017, so I decided to compile a list for you with their release dates (if there is one!) …
This is a very dark, disturbing yet philosophical book that will stay in your brain for a very very long time. This is the first time that I have read anything by Shusterman and after reading Unwind, I am interested to see whether his other books are as good as this.
This was a book that I had heard very mixed reviews on; people either loved it or hated it – and of course, I just had to be the person that thought it was in between. I didn’t dislike it, I didn’t love it. It just took forever to get into and I nearly DNF’d (did not finish) it. But luckily the last quarter of the book saved it from being dumped in the DNF pile!
Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite writers. He’s a brilliant children’s author, he’s an amazing adult author… The man can do it all. The amazing thing about his children’s books however, is that they can also be read by adults and they don’t feel like they’re reading a children’s book. This is what The Graveyard Book is. It’s a children’s book that adults can happily read without feeling like it should be a bedtime story for their two-year-old.
This is my rapid fire book tag where I have to answer questions with the first answer that pops into my head. But obviously, knowing me, I couldn’t just say the answer, could I? I just had to go and explain my answer or ramble on. Oh well…
The Rapid Fire book tag was so much fun to do and I tag anyone who wants to do it!
I’m at a loss for words. I am here, sitting in bed and I have no clue what to write. This book blew my mind. After reading Remember Remember by Sue Whitaker, I knew that I could expect a brilliant story but I was not expecting that. At all. That was magnificent. It was perfection.
I was lying in bed and it was about 3am and I just fancied re-reading Coraline. I don’t know why, but I felt like a quick, brilliant read and I just thought of Coraline. I first read this book when I was about twelve years old and it freaked me out so much – not nightmares spooked me out, but the concept was really weird to me. Reading it again, 9 years later, it still freaks me out.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a book that I have read over and over again. This was the final novel of Shirley Jackson and in my opinion, it’s her best. It’s like she collected everything that she had learned over her time of writing and put it all into this book.
Living in 2016, we are used to so much advanced technology. Being 21, I have had to adapt to these technological changes that are happening in my life – my friends and I were first introduced to the idea of Facebook when we were 14. Now, children are growing up with smartphones and tablets in their hands. It only makes sense that an author would notice these changes happening in our world and create a story about it. And that is exactly what Nicholas Pearce did with The Promise She Made.
Television shows at the moment seem to be all about the ‘epicness’. It’s a battle to see who can create the most disturbing, the most bloody or the most mouth-gaping of shows. Inspired by the 1973 film of the same name, the television adaptation of Westworld, fits into these categories. It’s disturbing, it’s bloody and it blew my mind.