In my ever-expanding books made into a movie series, and my continued plan to make my blog a bit more usable for people, and break that ridiculously long list down into grade levels, I now present to you 6th-grade books made into movies. (there are of course so many … [Read more...]

Years ago the fad among book publishing was these cool books with deckle edges, and there is something about books like that which I love (I'll try to find the meme with that idea). There were several middle grade books in that vein, and while I'm not the age range, I like to … [Read more...]

We broke our rule with Good Omens. It came out when we were up in Iowa visiting Tara and she LOVES Terry Pratchett, grew up reading them with her Mom, and so of course we watched it with her. Then we returned home and during our speculative fiction year of reading we had our Good … [Read more...]

As a Freshman in high school I read Animal Farm. I remember being something of a history buff and reading the chapter where the animals went through the farmer's house and thinking, "Wow, I bet this is what the peasants felt like going through the Romanov palace after the Russian … [Read more...]

Back when Jeff and I were dating Studio Gibli was all the rage. It's still very popular, but it created amazing fantastic movies that were actually family movies. They were, as my daughter likes to say, wholesome. Jeff raved about Kiki's Delivery Service as just this nice slice … [Read more...]