If the Hob still existed, everyone (read: Greasy Sae) would be gossiping about whether or not they can survive Mockingjay being chopped in half for the final two Hunger Games films. Tributes, I have been beyond the fence and can tell you: YOU WILL NOT ONLY SURVIVE, YOU WILL BECOME STRONGER THAN BEFORE. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, […]
If you’re shopping for fans of teen fiction and/or movies, rejoice. There’s been a bumper crop of great book-to-film adaptations this year, which makes gift-giving a snap. Each of these teen titles has a big, sweeping story that springs to life from the very first scene—whether you encounter that scene first on the page or on the screen.
Falling into a k-hole on Instagram or Pinterest typically entails scrolling through a million quotes superimposed on beachy scenes, starry skies, or lovely mountain landscapes. Often they’re lines from YA books or lyrics from a favorite song. And sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between the two—is that John Green or John Lennon? Taylor […]
Good books sometimes get turned into movies. And good long books (The Hobbit, I’m looking at you), or good books that are especially action-packed (hey there, Mockingjay) are sometimes turned into multiple movies. Now, it looks like another planned book-to-movie project will be following this trend: Stephen King’s The Stand, released in 1978 and weighing in at 1,152 pages, won’t […]
Occasionally a book or series comes along that introduces a secondary or even tertiary character who is so inspired, so utterly compelling, that the need for a book or series dedicated to that specific character becomes screamingly obvious. And then, of course, there are other books in which a spinoff is not quite so inevitable—like […]
