The biggest news of the week is that I’ve started to run/jog. I’ve only been going for the past ten days and I could barely go an entire minute without loosing my breath. But I was clearly just not trying hard enough, because a week into it, I made it an entire mile without walking. [...]
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Sunday Salon {4/15/2012}
Posted by Kristie on April 15, 2012
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/sunday-salon-4152012/
From Prada to Nada — a Hispanic Sense & Sensibility [movie review]
From Prada to Nada (2011) is a modern film, using Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (book, 1811) as it’s basis. I say that it is a Hispanic S&S because in this version of the story, the characters are all Hispanic. (Please forgive me if I am using the wrong term. I don’t know which is currently correct, [...]
Posted by Kristie on August 14, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/from-prada-to-nada-a-hispanic-sense-sensibility-movie-review/
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
“Adventures are all very well in their place, he thought, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.” Title: Stardust Author: Neil Gaiman Genre: fantasy ISBN: 9780061142024 Length: 248 pages Published: 1999 Source: personal collection Rating: n/a Resolutions/Challenges: none Reason for Reading: Been wanting to reread it lately to see exactly what the [...]
Posted by Kristie on August 3, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/stardust-by-neil-gaiman/
Bliss: Book-Film Comparison
Comparing Bliss by OZ Livaneli (2002) and Mutluluk directed by Abdullah Oguz (2007) (Here is my review post on Bliss by OZ Livaneli) This film has made me realize something. I simply don’t like movies if they change too much from the book, even if I didn’t love the book itself. And believe me, I tried to ignore [...]
Posted by Kristie on July 2, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/bliss-book-film-comparison/
Books I’d Like to See as Movies
On Tuesday, I missed probably one of the Top Ten Tuesday posts for which I was waiting most anxiously: the top ten books I’d like to see be made into movies. (Here is the host post at the Broke and the Bookish for that TTT theme.) So I decided I would still answer the question [...]
Posted by Kristie on April 14, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/books-id-like-to-see-as-movies/
Thrillers/Mysteries: Read Book or Watch Film First??
I have a question for you fellow avid readers out there: What is your opinion about reading “thrillers” (and by that I mean fast-paced books with little mysterious twists and turns) after having viewed film adaptations of said “thrillers”? I ask because recently I have watched the three films based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy [...]
Posted by Kristie on March 22, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/thrillersmysteries-read-book-or-watch-film-first/
Tenant of Wildfell Hall: film vs. book
~*~SPOILERS ABOUT BOOK & MOVIE~*~ About a month or so ago, I finished reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. Just a couple of days ago I watched the BBC Tenant of Wildfell Hall film (or mini-series, really) from 1996. Normally reading a book first means I can’t enjoy the movie, because I’m [...]
Posted by Kristie on March 4, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/tenant-of-wildfell-hall-film-vs-book/
Lisa & Lottie by Erich Kästner
Title: Lisa and Lottie (originally Das Oppelte Lottchen) Author: Erich Kästner Genre: children’s fiction ISBN: none (old edition) Length: 136 pages Year Published: 1949 Source: public library Rating: 5/5 Challenges/Resolutions: Years of Books Goal Summary: Lottie Horn and Lisa Palfy meet at a summer camp for girls when they are nine years old. The surprise is, [...]
Posted by Kristie on February 25, 2011
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/lisa-lottie-by-erich-kastner/
HP & the Deathly Hallows: re-reading the book, viewing the film
As you may recall from previous posts and the present image for what I’m “Listening To” on my sidebar, I am currently re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Just to refresh your memories, I hated HP7 when I first read it, but decided to give it another chance as the movie previews were just [...]
Posted by Kristie on November 23, 2010
http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/hp-the-deathly-hallows-re-reading-the-book-viewing-the-fil/
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