I choose The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd book because it sounded like a good story. I have always thought the 1960's were an interesting time in our history. "The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest."
After I choose it and put it up on the blog I saw previews for the movie. I had heard nothing about it. Hopefully alot of you will read the book along with us before you go and see the movie.
I am still reading the Gargoyle, it is a "heavy" book so hopefully I will finish it soon so that I can start this book.
This book is Erin's pick for the month, but I am writing about it since she is swamped with sewing her Superhero Capes. I know she picked this book because she had seen it around and heard people talking about it. The story is about every woman's fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? We will have to find out.
From the Page to the Screen:
It seems like alot of the books were have or are reading is being made into a movie and this month's pick is no exception. Lifetime made this movie and aired it in April of this year and I have tried to find when it will be re-airing but I have not been able to find out. I have Netflix and found out you can rent the movie, and it comes out on DVD on October 7th. It stars Dermot Mulroney ("The Wedding Date"), Gretchen Mol ("3:10 to Yuma") and two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson.
I picked the Time Travelers Wife because I had heard about it for a long time now and it always sounded like my kind of book, but I never read it. It is about a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder. He disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life. Apparently this causes problems with his marriage, what wife wouldn't be upset if her husband kept disappearing? It is a love story that I am really excited to read. I really hope that it doesn't have a sad ending like the last love story that we read, we will have to wait and see.
From Page to Screen:
I found out that it is being made into a movie and it is supposed to be released this December! It stars Eric Bana & Rachel McAdams. I am so excited to see it, I should probably wait until I read it to say that though. I always try to read a book before I see the movie, so this is perfect timing for this months pick.
Some of you might have heard already but I just found out ... the movie version of Twilight was originally slated to be released December 12th of this year - but has been moved up three weeks and is now opening right before Thanksgiving on November 21st.
Great news!
(Unless you're a Harry Potter fan -- the movie was moved up when they announced the postponement of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince until next summer - it was supposed to open November 21st.)
This is the first post for a new feature we have on Oh! It Is Only a Novel! called "From the Page to the Screen". So many books are made into movies now a days, some being adapting to the screen better than others. I know Darci likes to read the book before watching the movie, and as a general rule, I do too. I just never find the book as good if I have seen the movie first.
So what's the most anticipated new movie to be coming out soon? At least among the friends and family I have -- it's Twilight, the movie based on the book of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. It's being released on December 12, 2008. I personally can't wait to see how the movie turns out - seeing as I loved the book Twilight (it was my favorite out of the 3 so far in the series).
MTV has a thing they're doing called "Twilight Tuesday", with a new clip or interview with the cast every Tuesday leading up to the premier. It's a great place to go to see the latest news or watch an interview with a cast member.
Here's a few different things they've released so far about the movie:
The fist picture of the Cullen family:
The official Twilight teaser trailer (which I've watched no less than 20 times):
The first movie poster:
And a special sneak peak of the Cullen family crest, which wasn't something that appeared in the books, but has been created specially for the movies. They came up with the design of the crest, and then the different actors in the Cullen family got to choose how they wanted their character to carry the crest - some have it in a pendant, some in a ring, some in a bracelet. Read more about it here, on a website called Twilight Series News that has a ton of great articles and pictures gathered together.
We're 2 friends that used to live 7 miles apart and now we live 681 miles apart. We started picking out books to read together so we could stay connected. We formed our own little book club so we could chat about the books and how we felt about them. This is where we share our thoughts with you.
Darci picks the book that we start reading on the 1st of the month, Erin picks the book that we start reading on the 15th of the month. We both read quickly and then can email and talk about them once we're both done -- we're not strict about the timetable as we both have toddlers that keep us occupied and on our toes.
If you want to join us in reading a book - please do! Leave your review of the book so we can all talk about it.
We also both read other books throughout the month and will post our thoughts about them here, too, in a feature called "On The Side".
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