In honor of a rather silly book I read about a high school girl with a crush, I give you this article on the journey Lewis Carroll’s classic took in the Soviet Union. A choice excerpt:
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Cinematical reported today that The Giver by Lois Lowry has had some action on the adaptation front:
For years, the book has floated around in development hell. After it was published, it was picked up by Lancit Media, and then RCN Entertainment, but both businesses tanked. Nicole Silver then grabbed it with Jeff Bridges, holding onto [...]

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Phew!! Finally done with my work reading for the weekend. I finished up with 2 very short books in the same series. (By the way, I hate that Wordpress only lets me publish partial feeds b/c of a bug. Sorry.)
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An illiterate housekeeper’s resentment of the privileged family she serves boils over into a murderous rage.
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Judgement in Stone was turned into an incredible movie called La Ceremonie by Claude Chabrol, starring Sandrine Bonnaire as Eunice, the “stone” of the title, and the marvelous Isabelle Huppert as Joan, the local postmistress who fans the flames of [...]

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Gayle over at Everyday I Write the Book blog also recently read Notes on a Scandal, which I blogged about last week. Here’s what she had to say:
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An old spinster teacher narrates her obsession with fellow teacher Sheba Hart, who is having an affair with her 15-year-old student.
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Finished my last book for my reading job, and now I’m free! Until Monday morning, of course. I am in the middle of Zoe Heller’s Notes on a Scandal, which I picked up because I liked the movie so much. I mooched the book from someone in Iceland, which adds an extra [...]

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A writer suffers a car wreck and finds himself in the tender loving care of his number one fan.
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An outcast girl with telekinesis wreaks havoc at her prom.
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A little girl becomes possessed by an ancient, evil spirit.
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Here is a solid case of the adaptation transcending the source material. As a book, The Exorcist just doesn’t have the same air of menace and terror created by William Friedkin’s movie adaptation. Blatty gives readers passages describing black masses, and doesn’t shy away [...]

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