Category Archives: Book Reviews
Book (The Silent Sister) and Movie (The Girl on the Train) Club’s Review
October 2016 Book and Movie Review Theme: Thriller Book/Movie Club Set Up: Each member of our group (women ages 23-48) draws a month and a genre/theme, and they get to choose a book and movie in their category. (They do not have to be one in the same.) The group has approximately 3 weeks to …
Drive – April’s Book and Movie Review
Quick Book/Movie Summary: Novel (2006) – Author: James Sallis (Summary from Amazon) Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Movie (2011) – Screenwriter: Hossein Amini Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (summary from imdb) A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and …
How to be Single – March’s Book and Movie Review
Quick Book/Movie Summary: Novel – by Liz Tuccillo (summary from Amazon) How to Be Single is about one woman’s attempts to navigate a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love. Movie – Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein, and Dana Fox (Summary from Rotten Tomatoes) A young woman searches for love in New York City in …
East of Eden – January’s Book and Movie Review (And Giveaway!)
Quick Book/Movie Summary: Novel – 1952 – by John Steinbeck (Summary From Amazon): Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and …
Drugstore Cowboy – December’s Book and Movie Review
Quick Book/Movie Summary: Novel by James Fogle (Summary from Amazon): This rich and compelling story of four traveling junkies who lives revolve around looting drugstores was made into the movie voted best film of 1989 by the National Society of Film critics and is published here for the first time. Movie: Screenplay by and …
Z for Zachariah – November’s Book and Movie Get-Together
Z for Zachariah Novel (1974): Written by Robert C. O’Brien Movie (2015): Screenplay by Nissar Modi directed by Craig Zobel The set up: Our group (women ages 22-48) pick a book that has been made into a movie. We read the book and then get together for thematic food, to discuss the book, and then to …
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