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Friday Favourites :: 17 December
Ooooh it’s getting close now! Tomorrow it’s just one week until Christmas! We’ve been really getting into the Christmas movies – we’ve watched a bunch already, and are very much looking forward to checking out the adaptation of A Boy Called Christmas soon, so I thought I’ve share some of our (my) other favourites today. I’m giving them subheadings because I feel like it might be a long list haha Christmas adjacent movies Each year we kick off Christmas movies season by watching Die Hard and Batman Returns – both are Christmas adjacent so it doesn’t feel like we are getting too Christmassy too early, but there is enough Christmas…
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Christmassy :: Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares :: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan/NETFLIX
It’s Christmas-time and Lily, an unlucky-in-love 16-year-old, listens to the advice of her lucky-in-love brother and leaves her red notebook on her favourite bookshop shelf. The book, and the dares inside it, have Lily waiting for the right guy to come along and rise to the challenge. When Dash finds her notebook on the shelves of The Strand bookstore, he accepts her challenge. As they begin to send each other on a scavenger hunt all across Manhattan, Dash and Lily are falling in love with each other on the page. Discovering if they have the same chemistry in person could be their biggest dare yet. I can’t remember where I…
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Christmas :: Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber/Hallmark
Ok, we all know I love Christmassy romcoms in both novel and film form, so I thought it might be fun to read and watch some book and movie pairs. My local library just happened to have both the original novel and the DVD of Hallmark’s movie adaptation of Debbie Macomber’s Dashing Through the Snow. Obviously I read the book first. It is a relatively short novel, so I got through it in a single day. Honestly, I thought this was quite delightful! There are lots of things about it that are completely ridiculous, but in a fun way. I don’t even know where to start with the plot, so…
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Review :: Love, Simon :: Becky Albertalli
Another case of me having a book on my TBR FOREVER, and finally reading it so I can see the movie/tv adaptation – a friend gave me Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (which has been retitled Love, Simon, to match the movie) I think for my birthday in April last year (it could have been longer ago!). There has been so much buzz about the movie that I definitely wanted to see it, and when a friend had tickets to an advance screening on Sunday I jumped at the chance – and so I spent Saturday binge-reading the book =) I think this book deserves every single bit of…
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Sunday book stack :: movie adaptations
I’m off to see the new movie adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel today. I read the book last month and really enjoyed it (I wrote a bit about it here), so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with it on the big screen. So for today’s book stack I pulled out some books we have at home that have been made into films. I haven’t seen (or read) all of these, but there are some that had fantastic adaptations (the Dressmaker!), and some, well, less fantastic (ahem, Paper Towns). Anyhow, this also made me think about what some of my favourite adaptations are. The first one that came to…
