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books to movies

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Whenever a book my book club has read is made into a movie we say we should all go see it together, but we never do. Let’s face it, it is rare for a movie adaption of a book to compare favorably to a well written novel. It’s like me taking a bite of gluten-free pizza and expecting it to be as good as the real thing, it’s just not going to happen (and I’m probably better off not even bothering). The Mid-Continent Public Library has a nice list of books-to-movies and two new ones are opening this month. Next with Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore opens April 27th and is based on Philip K. Dick’s The Golden Man, and The Hoax starring Richard Gere and adapted from the book by Clifford Irving opens on April 20th.

By the way, click on the star if you want to make your own Walk of Fame star. I Photoshopped mine afterwards to spruce it up! (Less bright, more contrast…)

artful thursday

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Time to power up that inner artist! I made this line drawing of an angel on a cool website called the SCRIBBLER. You hold down the left mouse button and make a simple line drawing, and when you’re done the SCRIBBLER takes over and creates a masterpiece. If you love what you make and want to save it to your computer it’s a little tricky, but if bookbabie can do it, anyone can! I followed their directions and pasted the entire page capture on a blank page in my photo program, then cropped out what I didn’t want, and ta da, a lovely line angel!

dive into reading

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You may have noticed that I like internet gadgets (I’m very easily entertained and distracted). I especially enjoy those that relate to books (I am a bookbabie afterall) and I stumbled across another one yesterday. It’s called Literature-Map. It’s a simple premise, you type in the name of an author you like, hit the “continue” button and you get this cool, floaty lake of author’s names who write similar stuff. Try it out!

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to oprah from bookbabie

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In my recent web wanderings I stumbled across BookFinder.com,a great site to go to when you are looking for that certain book and you don’t want to just Google it and get a million useless hits. Is there a book you remember reading as child with your mom before bed that you’d like to track down? Or maybe you need a gift for, let’s say your good friend Oprah. I found a nice first edition, signed copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby for only $55,000. It was owned by Warren Baxter who starred in the silent movie version of the film in 1926, hence the high price, but hey, the divine Ms. O is worth every penny! Interesting site for the bookishly inclined.