Category: Books at the Box office
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Books at the Box Office: Avalon High
It’s time for me to talk about one of my beloved books being turned into an AWFUL movie.
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Books at the Box Office: Love, Simon
I believe this is my first “books at the box office” feature that focuses on a movie that was retitled from the book,
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Books at the Box Office: Bridge to Terabithia
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, which won the Newbery Medal in 1978.
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Books at the Box Office: The Sun is Also A Star
I discovered Nicola Yoon when The Sun Is Also a Star was a BOTM club pick back in December 2016.
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Books at the Box Office: Wonder
I never expected to be the chaperone crying on a third grade field trip, but there I was
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Books at the Box Office: The Virgin Suicides
I discovered the Virgin Suicides as an assigned reading text in college.
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Books at the Box Office: Time Traveler’s Wife
The Time Traveler’s Wife movie came out in 2009, right around the time I was starting to actually enjoy romantic movies, and I had recently seen Eric Bana as Henry VIII, so I was sold
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Books at the Box Office: Austenland
I went through a phase in high school where I binge-read/watched all of these stories about people who are obsessed with Jane Austen re-enactments
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Books at the Box Office: Bridget Jones Diary
I’ll admit that I did not at first realize, despite it being pretty obvious, that Bridget Jones Diary was a retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
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Books at the Box Office: Atonement
I love all of Ian McEwan’s work, because his books read with the intellectual prose of a classic but with a plot that actually keeps you engrossed
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Books at the Box Office: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Rom Com fans fell hard for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before on Netflix,
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Books at the Box Office: Crazy Rich Asians
In an odd turn of events, my roommate actually beat me to this series,