Review: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds
Plays are meant to be performed, not read. But a) not everybody lives near a theatre that performs Shakespeare’s plays, b) living near a theatre does not mean you can […]
Category Archives: Adaptations
Review: A Wounded Name by Dot Hutchison
Hardcover, 311 pages Published September 1st 2013 by Carolrhoda Lab Source: Library “How many ways can a heart break? I suspect, because of Dane, I will discover them all.” There’s […]
Review: Fighting Demons by S. L. Huang
It has been two years since Rosa fled the west, walking out on Xiao Hong and Mei, breaking their family […] Xiao Hong’s mother makes the hard decision to return […]
Come On In: A List Of Retellings
Recently, Laura wrote a fantastic post on the importance of retelling. In it, she talks about the popular use of the hero’s journey in fiction, and how it’s typically a […]
Guest Post: Rhiannon Thomas on Retelling Sleeping Beauty
Rhiannon Thomas is a recent graduate from Princeton University, where she studied English and Japanese, and smuggled bubble tea into the library on a regular basis. She now lives in […]
Review: The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful […]
Read the Book: A moment on The Hobbit films
Adapting the works of fantasy progenitor J.R.R. Tolkien is, admittedly, a very tall order. Not only must the adaptations appease Tolkien’s incredibly adamant and meticulous fans but also introduce […]
Watch the Film?: Meditation on Adaptation (The Maze Runner)
I am what you would call an advocate for the book. I remember once noting this to a professor who asked me why I thought that film was a lesser media […]
On Race And Book-To-Screen Adaptations
There are so many YA books right now with TV/movie deals that I can’t get the phrase “adaptations are in the air” out of my head. It’s pretty exciting! Except […]
The Book Wars 