Taking Books to the Screen

I don't know about you, but I hate to see a movie or TV show before I've had a chance to read the book.  This is especially true if I am reading a series such as Harry Potter or Sookie Stackhouse or Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.  One of the reasons that I love to read books is because I love to use my imagination to "see" the world that the author has created.

When I read a book, I create an image of the characters and how they speak and act in my mind.  When I am reading a book that is part of a series, I carry that image with me throughout the series and make adjustments to the character(s) along the way.

When I see a movie about a book, that influences my image of the character so that the next time I read the book or the next book in the series, I see the characters as the actors portrayed them and not necessarily how I originally pictured them.  For example, ever since I saw Tom Clancy's "The Patriot Games", every time I read one of the Jack Ryan novels, I picture Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan and hear his voice in my head for the dialog.  Yes, I know that Alec Baldwin played Jack Ryan first, but Harrison Ford's version made more of an impact with me.

When I was reading the Harry Potter books, I couldn't watch the movies because I had a picture in my mind of what Harry and his friends looked like and how they acted and sounded and I didn't want to replace that with the actors in the movie, especially if I didn't like them.  I bought "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" when I came out, but I didn't watch it.  I loaned it to my mom so that she could watch it with my sister one weekend.  I didn't see any of the Harry Potter movies until after I read book 7, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

I have more on this topic, but this is enough for now.

Day 4 of 30 Days of ME! - Favorite Book

Today's topic is Favorite Book.  Once again, I don't think that I can pick just one book.

I loved the Harry Potter series and was sorry  to see it end.

This series definitely makes me laugh!  I can't wait to see what happens next.

 This is one of my favorite books from when I was growing up.

I loved this series!

This is one of my truly all-time favorite books.  Ever!

Bloggiesta - And I'm off and blogging

The 3rd Bloggiesta starts today.  If you haven't already signed up and want to do so, head over to Maw Books and sign up on her Bloggiesta! Ready, Set . . . Let’s Fiesta! post.

Over the last week, I've been making a list of the things that I would like to get done this weekend.  Here are the things that I would like to get done this weekend.  Let's see how well I can do with getting to everything.

• Write reviews for the items that are currently in draft mode and schedule them.
• Review Savior the Moment by Nora Roberts
• Review Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
• Review Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
• Review The Tourist by Olen SteinhauerRite Part II of books to movies
• Write a post about turning books into movies.
• Work on template
• clean up sidebar
• add Subscribe via email to template
• create drop down for main menu (?)
• Review and update pages.
• Review and update challenge lists.
• Work on getting Google Analytics working so that I understand it.
• Clean out and organize my feed reader list.

Well, I'm off to start on these items and to check out some of the other blogs which are participating.

Happy Blogging!

Day 3 of 30 days of ME! - Favorite TV Show

Today is supposed to be about my favorite TV show.  I have to admit that I don't have just one, but several that I watch when I have the time.  Here is the current list in no particular order:

• Royal Pains
• Law & Order: SUV
• Bones
• CSI: NY
• NCIS
• Burn Notice

hmmm...I'm noticing a theme here...all of them are dramas.  LOL  That's what I want to watch at the moment.

My all time favorite show though was MASH.  I miss that show.

Day 2 of 30 Days of ME! - Favorite Movie

I am having a really hard time picking just one movie.  I have my favorite movies for the holidays, for when I need a good laugh, or when I just want to sit and relax with a good movie.

Some of my favorite movies!

But my all time favorite movie is Casablanca!

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3rd Bloggiesta is coming!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Natasha over at Maw Books is hosting the 3rd Bloggiesta the weekend of June 11 - 13, 2010.

Some of the things that I am going to try to get done this weekend are:

• completing some reviews of books that I recently completed and haven't written about yet;
• making some modifications to the template of my blog;
• review and update my challenges lists so that they reflect what I've read, etc.;