Avid readers are familiar with the joys and sorrows of film and tv adaptations: for every awesome movie that brings your favorite characters to life, there’s another one that tries to destroy them. Given that the next few years promise to be absolutely saturated with adaptations, the smart book nerd will buckle up now, because […]
Look into the fire, child. Tonight (today?) you shall come to know your spirit book. Yes, your spirit book. It is the book that guides you when you feel lost. It is the book that lives inside your soul. If a single book can be your own personal Burning Man music festival, the results of […]
Bookish people (like you and me) can be snobbish about the film and TV adaptations of our beloved novels. We complain about their lack of depth or failure of execution. We bemoan producers’ lack of original thinking. But sometimes it works the other way around: pop culture offers up freshness and originality in the form […]