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Movie vs. Book: Ella Enchanted Once upon a time, I discovered a wonderful, wonderful book. Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted is immerses you in Ella’s world, giving you a best friend as well as an adventure. Then Hollywood got their hands on it. And THEY RAPED IT. Below is an off-the-cuff rant I wrote in 2004, before the movie was [...] Full Story	Chocolat By Joanne Harris Read: December 2009 Rating: Delicious I saw the movie ages ago, but I don’t remember it very well. A good deal of the book felt familiar, which means the movie did bear some similarity to it. Not that anyone would really care when they could gaze on a GORGEOUS Johnny Depp. The [...] Full Story	Bridget Jones’ Diary By Helen Fielding Read: October 2009, repeatedly since ~2002 Rating: v.v.v.v.g. Bridget Jones is a classic of our time. She can’t be anything but. Plenty of people have gone on and on about how this book changed womens’ literature to chick lit (for better or worse). When I first read it, I was sixteen and [...] Full Story
Julie & Julia aka The Julie/Julia Project aka 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen aka My Year of Cooking Dangerously aka a movie with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams By Julie Powell Read: August 2009 Rating: Nifty Yeah, this is one of those books that is suddenly on everyone’s mind–or just was, anyway. The movie version [...] Full Story	Le Divorce By Diane Johnson Read: November 2008 Rating: Mmph. Right, so. I saw the movie ages back and don’t remember much about it except that I liked it more than my mother did, and she thought it was very disappointing. The book is… strange. I wish we’d read it in one of my writing classes because [...] Full Story	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien Read: Middle school?, July 2008 Rating: J’adore If you have never read about Mrs. Frisby, you are missing are a wonderful, crucial piece of childhood. I was given the movie, The Secret of NIMH (also reviewed below, when I was really, really young. Both my parents enjoyed watching it with me, [...] Full Story
Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden Read: high school, January 2008 Rating: Lovely A lot has been said about MoaG, so I’m not going to give it a huge, thorough review. What I am going to say is that it is wonderful. The settings are thorough. The culture feels alive and natural. You sympathize with the characters and [...] Full Story	If Only It Were True By Marc Levy Rating: Disappointing Read: June 2006 A quaint little bestseller from 2001 about love that transcends (near) death. A 2005 chick flick starring Reese Witherspoon. The movie was better. It was much more real. That says a lot about the book. It was passed on to me by mother, who got it from [...] Full Story	The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith I would plug it, but is this out of print?! Amazon has this movie tie-in thing… Rating: Nrrgh. Read: August 05 Honestly, honey, if you only ever see the movie with Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn, you’ll be ok. No, really. This book was… very… 80s? Clawd knows I abhor the 80s, [...] Full Story

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