The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free holiday--who should have stayed behind their resort's walls. The tide of that event carries Little Bee back to their world, which she claims she couldn't explain to the girls from her village because they'd have no context for its abundance and calm. But she shows us the infinite rifts in a globalized world, where any distance can be crossed in a day--with the right papers--and "no one likes each other, but everyone likes U2." Where you have to give up the safety you'd assumed as your birthright if you decide to save the girl gazing at you through razor wire, left to the wolves of a failing state.
pg: 271
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Book to Movie: Sarah's Key
One of our book club books "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay
will be in theaters July 22nd, 2011.
This should be an interesting one, many of you all had mixed feelings about
the book and the two story lines…..Lets see which we like in the movie now.
Please let me know if you have any interest in planning a field trip
Saturday or Sunday August 6th/7th.
Trailer link below:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1186176025/
will be in theaters July 22nd, 2011.
This should be an interesting one, many of you all had mixed feelings about
the book and the two story lines…..Lets see which we like in the movie now.
Please let me know if you have any interest in planning a field trip
Saturday or Sunday August 6th/7th.
Trailer link below:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1186176025/
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Book to Movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- us remake
There is a really HOT buzz going around about this movie I don't know if we will be going to see it or boycott it ?!?!?!?
"The director of the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has questioned the need for the upcoming American remake, reigniting a long-running war of words over Hollywood raiding foreign language films to repackage them for a global audience.
* Take from the Guardian.uk web site
Movie is set to be released December 21st, 2011. Click the link below to view the Trailer and more info.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/new-trailer-for-finchers-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/
"The director of the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has questioned the need for the upcoming American remake, reigniting a long-running war of words over Hollywood raiding foreign language films to repackage them for a global audience.
Film-maker Niels Arden Oplev expressed anger at plans to cast an American actor in the lead role of Lisbeth Salander, drawing unflattering comparisons with the Hollywood adaptation of the French film La Femme Nikita, which was poorly received when remade as The Assassin, starring Bridget Fonda in the 1990s.
He told the Word & Film website: "Even in Hollywood there seems to be a kind of anger about the remake; like, 'Why would they remake something when they can just go see the original?'
"It's like, what do you want to see – the French version of La Femme Nikita or the American one?"* Take from the Guardian.uk web site
Movie is set to be released December 21st, 2011. Click the link below to view the Trailer and more info.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/new-trailer-for-finchers-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/
Thursday, April 28, 2011
May Side Book - Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
The Month of May's theme was Mother's and Memorial Day
Share your review with us here on the blog.
This is a story about a wife and a mother who sets out on a journey to learn more about history and her own family’s heritage, and ultimately learns more about herself and her own abilities. Even though Rahna is a successful author, she had never been on her own or taken on anything as challenging or life-changing as leaving her family and travelling to Japan for six months. She has challenges fitting in and finding people in Japan who want to share their stories with her, or the stories seem to lack an emotional connection and just sound like rehearsed facts. Her marriage starts to fall apart during her absence, and she struggles with her role as wife and mother. Then, 9/11 happened and changed everything. The fear for her family’s safety and reality of how life can change in an instant repairs the damage to her marriage.
320 Pages
Share your review with us here on the blog.
This is a story about a wife and a mother who sets out on a journey to learn more about history and her own family’s heritage, and ultimately learns more about herself and her own abilities. Even though Rahna is a successful author, she had never been on her own or taken on anything as challenging or life-changing as leaving her family and travelling to Japan for six months. She has challenges fitting in and finding people in Japan who want to share their stories with her, or the stories seem to lack an emotional connection and just sound like rehearsed facts. Her marriage starts to fall apart during her absence, and she struggles with her role as wife and mother. Then, 9/11 happened and changed everything. The fear for her family’s safety and reality of how life can change in an instant repairs the damage to her marriage.
320 Pages
Book to Movie: Kathryn Stockett's "The Help"
In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. At first, only Aibileen (Viola Davis), the housekeeper of Skeeter's best friend, will talk. But, as the pair continue their collaboration, more women decide to come forward, and as it turns out, they have quite a lot to say.
Ladies if you haven't already ready The Help, it's a must read it's on my top ten list.
Link Below:
http://youtu.be/l0dWCXCjX9o
Opens August 12th, 2011
Ladies if you haven't already ready The Help, it's a must read it's on my top ten list.
Link Below:
http://youtu.be/l0dWCXCjX9o
Opens August 12th, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Book Suggestion: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks.
But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.
Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense.
Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.
(From the publisher.)
579 pages
paper back and e-books
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks.
But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell.
Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense.
Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.
(From the publisher.)
579 pages
paper back and e-books
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