Category Archives: movies

Ten years under hill, over dale, beneath the waves, on faery trails…

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 by

Happy December, Bookwyrms and La-La Landers everywhere! Welcome to the final Year-End Review of the 2010s!  Ten years ago, 24-year-old Neri decided to ignore the call of Srs Adulthood and instead doubled down on her obsession with stories for and … Continue reading →

Posted in adaptations, book blogging, fantasy, favorites, folklore/fairy tales, LGBTQIA, literary travel, Lithuania, magical realism, mermaids, meta, movies, out-of-the-books experience, selkies, year-end review | 2 Comments

Love, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Posted on Mar 22, 2018 by

Book Rating:  4.95 out of 5 magical worlds where everything is made of Oreos. Movie Rating:  4.5 out of 5 kisses on the Ferris Wheel So, yeah, Simon the book is sweet and adorable and heartwarming, and the movie, though it has … Continue reading →

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Classic Juv/YA Fantasy: The Princess Bride

Posted on Jul 24, 2017 by

William Goldman. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007. Rating: 4.85 out of 5 chocolate-covered resurrection pills Rating #2: This book is so good I read it twice in a row, … Continue reading →

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Labyrinth: the novelization

Posted on Jun 24, 2015 by

A.C.H. Smith. Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: the Novelization. Los Angeles: Archaia, 2014. After years of sighing at the $40+ copies of the out-of-print Labyrinth novelization, I was thrilled to hear about the newly released hardcover edition (for just $20!). And for … Continue reading →

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Strange things did happen here…

Posted on Nov 27, 2014 by

Hi everyone!  So, that was another fun hiatus.  Since our last episode: I moved to another state. I’ve made it a project to check out all the area coffee places and review them on FourSquare (and also hopefully find a new … Continue reading →

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Dear Authors: Not every YA heroine needs a boyfriend

Posted on Feb 18, 2014 by

Cross-posted from Insatiable Booksluts. ________________ I like a good literary romance well enough.  Aw, who am I kidding, I’m the shippiest shipper in all of shipdom.*  I was on Team Ron/Hermione right from Sorcerer’s Stone (I swear I started this post before … Continue reading →

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Now THAT’S how you make a book-based movie!!

Posted on Dec 17, 2013 by

So, I saw Catching Fire on Sunday and felt pretty much like Chester from the Nostalgia Critic‘s “Bum Reviews” – the latest of which, incidentally, is Catching Fire 🙂 (beware of spoilers) (P.S. the NC reviews – though not so much the … Continue reading →

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