Should I Watch? – Page 2 – Book Club Babble

The 89th Academy Awards are this Sunday, and while the world casts predictions about who should win, my vote goes to the triumphant adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, Hidden Figures. The movie by the sa... Read More...

Should Fans of the Book Bother Seeing Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine?

Mary Sullivan

Should I Watch?

Let me begin by saying that I have a prejudice against fantasy. Monsters, goblins, things-that-go-bump-in-the-night are excruciating to me. I fear I’m exactly the kind of adult Peter Pan never wanted to become:... Read More...

Interview with Zach Anner, Author of If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews, Should I Watch?

Book Club Babble interviews Zack Anner and talks about his new book, If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny. Lena Dunham envies his life, John Mayer writes music for his s... Read More...

Outlander: Ready for Season 2

Tabitha Lord

Should I Watch?

Outlander, the series based on Diana Gabaldon's bestselling novels, will return to television for its second season in exactly eleven days, not that I’m counting, so I thought this might be the perfect opport... Read More...

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Mary Sullivan

Should I Watch?

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (theatrical release August 2015) came out on DVD this week. It’s about a 15-year-old girl in 1970s San Francisco who embarks on a sexual affair with her mother’s 35-year-old boyfrien... Read More...

Book-to-Film: Room

Kelly Sarabyn

Should I Watch?

The film adaptation of the bestselling Room is incredibly faithful to the book. Perhaps this is no surprise as the screenplay was written by Room’s author Emma Donoghue. Like the book, the film is simultaneous... Read More...

Paper Towns

Mary Sullivan

Should I Watch?

Paper Towns is John Green’s best-selling young adult novel that was turned into a movie this summer (the DVD was released this fall). The cinematic adaptation of any beloved book begs the questions: is it worth... Read More...

Need an Antidote to the Summer Doldrums? Your Favorite Books Go to the Movies!

Maribel Garcia

on Books, Should I Watch?

It’s that time of year. In the literary calendar, the month of August is that blasé space between all of the book hoopla of June and July’s great “beach reads” and the much-anticipated literary debuts of autumn... Read More...