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Books With Good Film Adaptations Photo by Pietro Jeng from Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/curve-industry-photography-vintage-65128/ First of all, apologies for not posting on Wednesday! I had an essay to write which took me longer than expected. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to get ahead with my schedule so that (hopefully) it doesn't happen again, and a review will be posted as normal this Wednesday. I will also be posting my book of the month tomorrow! You might also have noticed that the theme of the blog has changed- a good friend of mine pointed out that my comments weren't working, so I've changed my theme to solve the problem.  Now, tonight the Oscars are happening in America! I thought this was a good opportunity to showcase books I think have had good film adaptations, because the good ones are rare enough that they deserve to be credited. Plus, I've found that I can enjoy good movies as much as the books they're based on,...

What I'm Looking Forward To in the BBC's Les Miserables Firstly, I am so sorry this didn't come out yesterday! I didn't realise until just now that it hadn't been posted. Hopefully I'll be back on schedule for Wednesday! I am a huge fan of Les Miserables. I first saw it in the West End the summer before the film came out, then fell in love with the film too, and have a love-hate relationship with the novel. There are a lot of details in the novel which I miss from its musical adaptations, but equally some I'm not sorry to see ignored. Yes, I'm talking about long, rambling sections on Napoleon, and the Parisian sewer system. I'm hoping that the BBC's new adaptation will at least cut down those long digressions, but if they do justice to the smaller details then I know I'll love the adaptation. Here are some of the things I most want to see on screen! 1. The Thenardier siblings! Eponine is one of my favourite characters in both the...

Why "Prince Caspian" is a good film adaptation I love the Narnia books. Like a lot of children, my first experience of them was through the films. Once I loved those, my mum gave me the books, and I discovered new favourites. I still go back to them as comfort reading. It made me a little bit sceptical about the films, though. I'd seen a lot of films which didn't do justice to their source at all, and I had only seen the films as a child. Perhaps they were worse than I remembered? They're not. The first two, at least, are so faithful to the books. They change what they have to, but the spirit of the books is still there. I re-watched Prince Caspian last week and ended up admiring it all over again, and so here are 7 reasons why the film of  Prince Caspian is just as good as the book. 1. It finds new ways to explore the themes of the book. The book focuses on the importance of the Narnians moving away from their past, and from the Golden Age of the Pev...