Blog Posts by Subject: Books made into movies

Reader’s Den: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Week 1

 by Lois Moore, Senior Librarian, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
December 8, 2012

Oskar Schell, a precocious nine-year-old who lives in New York City, is the protagonist In Jonathan Safran Foer’s popular post-9/11 novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Oskar's active mind keeps endlessly creating new inventions, most of them somehow related to saving lives and making connections with other people. In other words, he's trying to find a 

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Are you Ready to See The Hobbit, My Precioussssss?

 by Andrea Lipinski, Senior Young Adult Librarian, Kingsbridge Library
December 3, 2012

Okay, you're probably busy putting the finishing touches on your wizard's robe and/or brushing the hair on your furry hobbit's feet so that you will be as stylish as possible when you arrive at the movie theater to catch a midnight showing of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey later this month.

But while you're passing the time getting ready for the new movie, don't forget that you can use the library to read J.R.R. Tolkien's books, books about Tolkien, and other books connected to the LOtR universe. Plus you 

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It Was a Book Before It Was a Movie

 by Joanne Conte
December 1, 2012

The Hunger Games Some of the best books that I have ever read were ultimately made into movies. However, as you might already know, the books are always better than the movie. Jaws by Peter Benchley was so much scarier when I read it than when I viewed it on the big screen. Carrie by Stephen King gave me nightmares, and even though the movie lived up to my 

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