Blog Posts by Subject: Books made into movies

Multiple YA books are hitting theaters and the trend does not seem to be slowing down, especially for multi-book series.

Miranda Priestly is the harbinger of fashion excellence, at least according to her. Factor in a woman who throws temper tantrums about having to wait two and a half minutes for anything, and you have got a boss from hell. Fourteen-hour days for assistant Andrea so that she and her colleague Emily can be at Miranda's beck-and-call every minute of the day.

The Monuments Men film was a slightly fictionalized version of the incredible true story of the activities of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program at the end of World War II. Though much of the action really happened, some of the names and details were changed. If you enjoyed the movie and want to learn more, here is a list of suggested titles.

In the month of January, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

If you're looking for a biographical drama (I never have been looking for one, but hey we've got five this month!) then check out January's releases of Lee Daniels' The Butler, Fruitvale Station,

In the month of December, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

If you're looking for some an action-packed night from the comfort of your own home, then check out the December DVD releases of The Wolverine, The Mortal Instruments,

In the month of November, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

If you're looking for some laughs, November brings many great comedy DVD titles to the Library with Grown Ups 2, Clear History,

In the month of October, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

October brings many great family DVD titles to the Library with The Croods, Monsters University, and re-releases of The 

In the month of September, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

September brings some of the summer's biggest blockbusters to DVD with releases of Star Trek: Into Darkness, World War Z, and

In the month of August, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

August is a month full of big Hollywood DVD releases with Oblivion, Olympus Has Fallen, the Great Gatsby, and

Orange Is the New Black is the latest series from Netflix based on Piper Kerman's memoir of the same name. The main character, Piper Chapman, is a middle class woman who has to leave behind her life in order to serve 15 months in prison for transporting a suitcase full of drug money for an international drug smuggler/former lover.

Piper and other characters such as Tastyee, Red and Alex are seen reading or referencing various books throughout the series. I decided to watch Orange Is the 

Our upcoming DVDs blog took a little break in June, but we're back with tons of great DVD movies coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog to pre-order upcoming July releases, or to catch up on June releases.

June and July have a lot of great action releases with Snitch,

A few titles that give a more substantial background to the time period in which "Gatsby" is set and to biographical details of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's lives.

In the month of May, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

May is a great month for movies based on books with DVD releases like Jack Reacher, Safe Haven, Cloud Atlas, and

In the month of April, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

We've got more Academy Award nominated DVD movie releases in April with Django Unchained, The Impossible, and Silver Linings 

In the month of March, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

March is a month full of Academy Award nominated DVD movie releases with Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables,

In the month of February, many great DVD movies are coming to the Library. Reserve titles now using the Library's Catalog.

February is a great month for DVD movie releases that were based on books, with Alex Cross, The Perks of Being a Wallflower,

This is the last week of our book discussion of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. In my first post, I mentioned that it is a post-9/11 novel, published in 2005, but during the past month of discussion, I haven't focused on that aspect of the work. The book talks about Oskar's reaction to the 9/11 tragedy and his 

Now that you have read more of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (if not all of it), you may have noticed some of its quirky phrases (such as “heavy boots” and “feeling like a hundred dollars”). Part of my interest in reading new (for me) authors is noticing how they use language: what kind of sentence structure — long or short, simple or complex; what kind of words — familiar or out of the ordinary or a combination; lots of descriptive language or spare simplicity; how the 

Now that you have had a chance to meet Oskar, what do you think of him? Many readers have compared him to Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Others think he’s far too precocious for a nine-year-old and have suggested the author used his own inner child as the