From Flavorwire: 10 Great Movies Based on Poems
Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Movies from poetry
Thursday, May 16th, 2013Dark Heroes and Heroines
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
From The Guardian: 10 Dark Heroes and Heroines
RIP, Mr. Dursley
Friday, March 29th, 2013
British actor Richard Griffiths died Thursday. You would probably remember him as Mr. Dursley in the Harry Potter series.
New Paulo Coelho book
Friday, March 15th, 2013
Paulo Coelho has a new book coming out in April, “Manuscript Found in Accra.” This link will take you to a video of Coelho talking about the book.
Board games for book nerds
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
HOW COOL IS THIS?! From Flavorwire: 10 Literary Board Games for Book Nerds. Pride and Prejudice: The Board Game, anyone?
Infinitely useful information
Monday, January 7th, 2013From the New Yorker: The 100 best lists of all time
Music inspired by books
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
From Publishers Weekly: 11 songs inspired by books.
(Shown: DEVO, “Whip It.”)
Merry Christmas message
Friday, December 14th, 2012
Click on the photo for a video Christmas message.
Unending torture?
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
From The Guardian: Stories that refuse closure.
Dark humor
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Boo!
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
Looking for a spooky Halloween read? Becca (@LostinBooks on Twitter) has kindly provided a very useful list.
Graphic novels for young people
Friday, October 12th, 2012
Here’s a link to the latest “One for the Books” column on graphic novels for young people.
‘The Princess Bride’ after 25 years
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Tor.com is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the movie “The Princess Bride” with some little-known facts about the making of the movie.
Realms of fantasy
Friday, September 21st, 2012
Here’s a link to the latest “One for the Books” column on Fantasy.
Snow White
Monday, September 17th, 2012
From The Guardian: Quiz — How well do you know Snow White?
Quirky cookbooks
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
From Flavorwire: 10 Deliciously Quirky Cookbooks
Mwah
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
From Flavorwire: 10 of the greatest kisses in literature. (Shown: Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts in the movie “Notting Hill.” … Not great literature? Who cares? It’s one of my favorite movies.)
Reading about ‘Downton Abbey’
Friday, August 24th, 2012
Bookish Barbies
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
From Huffington Post: Barbies based on books. (Shown: Eliza Doolittle)
Flying carpets? Babel fish?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
From Flavorwire: “10 artifacts from literature that we wish were real”
Giant books
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
From BuzzFeed: One of the world’s largest music festivals, Belgium’s Tomorrowland is known for its fantasy amusement park setting. This year, an entire stage was filled with a library of gigantic fairy tale books to create a sort of magical country.
Siblings
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
From The Guardian: Will Eaves’s top 10 siblings stories. (Above: Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.”)
What would they be reading?
Monday, July 30th, 2012
From Flavorwire: Reading lists of some of your favorite fictional characters
A-maze-ing books
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
From My Modern Met: As part of the London 2012 Festival, a gargantuan maze will be created using 250,000 books! … The walls are expected to be 13 feet high and the labyrinth will ultimately be over 5,000 square feet. …
Jane Austen on Facebook?
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
According to the New York Daily News, Jane Austen has joined Facebook, where one can join other Austen fans in playing Jane Austen’s Rogues and Romance.
Mr. Rogers remix
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
In case you’ve missed it, here’s a link to the PBS Mr. Rogers remix. It’s just awesome!
Writers in films
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
From The Millions: Did you know some famous writers made cameo appearance in films that had nothing to do with their writing?
Man interviews 12-year-old self
Friday, July 6th, 2012
This is wonderful! From the Herald Sun: A video of filmmaker Jeremiah McDonald interviewing his 12-year-old self. Funny!
Hufflepuff is the best?
Friday, July 6th, 2012
In this music video, shared by Tor.com, we return to Harry Potter’s Hogwarts and send up Lady Gaga at the same time: “I’m Hufflepuff and I’m proud … I’m in the right house, baby. I was sorted this way.” Very fun!
Wonderful world
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
From the BBC: This is just a commercial, but how gorgeous can it get?!