Booknificent Thursday Link Up Party #27

It’s that time of the week again, when we share the books we’ve been enjoying! As always, I’m also open to any posts about helping others learn to read or improve their reading skills (including adults). Basically, anything literacy-related is fair game.

I finished the The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry this week. I really loved it, but I remember that this series has some mature themes that are not appropriate for Bignificent, yet. The movie is scheduled to be released in August. Not sure how I feel about it. How do you feel about movies based on books?

And now, it’s time to party! With what books are you ringing in the New Year? As always, I’m open to any family-friendly posts about books as well as about helping others learn to read or improve their reading skills (including adults). Basically, anything literacy-related is fair game.

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Please link up any posts you have, past or present, about books, reading, and literacy. This link party is all about sharing how books are impacting you! Joining in is easy; just click “Click here to enter…” next to “You are next” and copy/paste the URL of a blog post (not your homepage). Choose a photo to upload and then click some of the other great posts in the party and meet new bloggers and find out about new books!

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Happy linking and have a great week!

Comments

Booknificent Thursday Link Up Party #27 — 7 Comments

Christine M. (Cool Mom) - Tech Support for Stanley & Katrina on January 9, 2014 at 9:45 pm said:

Thanks for hosting! Hope you are having a fantastic week.

Recently, I have enjoyed movies based on books. The Harry Potter series was great and so far the Hunger Games movies were good (Darling Daughter didn’t go to those movies). It is evident when the director/producer of movies stay true to the book such as in these cases – you can fill in the missing details from your memory.

The Percy Jackson ones aren’t true to the book – at least the first one and it bugs me and my daughter – but after seeing Rick Riordan speak and knowing that he has nothing to do with the movies, it makes sense – you have to look at it differently.

Typically, though, I’m a “The Book Was Better,” kind of person. 🙂

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- Mommynificent on January 16, 2014 at 8:44 pm said:
  
  Aren’t we all?!! Hope your week was great too!
  
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Christy on January 10, 2014 at 3:26 am said:

I didn’t realize the Giver was part of a quartet! Now I need to rush over to the library and see if they have the ones I haven’t read.

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- Mommynificent on January 16, 2014 at 8:43 pm said:
  
  Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! You won’t regret it! 🙂
  
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Caryn on January 10, 2014 at 4:30 am said:

Happy Thursday! I just finished two youth lit books this week: Flora & Ulysses, which was hilarious and has a great chapter book/illustrations combo to it; and The Penderwicks, which was a lovely, light read full of childish fun and sweet kids.

I always prefer books to their movie adaptations as my imagination is so much better! I’m nervous about The Giver coming out. Their casting seems poor to me and it is such a powerful book, I doubt it will get handled well on-screen. The only exception I’ve seen so far, I really preferred the movie version of Atonement to the book.

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- Mommynificent on January 16, 2014 at 8:43 pm said:
  
  I’m really looking forward to reading both Flora and Ulysses and The Penderwicks. I’ve never read or seen Atonement. Who is that by?
  
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