Should I Watch? – Page 2 – Book Club Babble

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...

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