The 101 Sci-Fi Movies list comes to an end with Children of Men, and I honestly couldn’t think of a better film to end it on. Director Alfonso Cuaron brings an adaptation of P.D. James novel to life in a vivid way, combining all that is the best of humanity, our callousness, our greed,…
Tag: novel
Jurassic Park (1993) – Steven Spielberg
As soon as I heard about Michael Crichton’s new book in 1990, I scrabbled to get my hands on a copy, and ended up co-opting and keeping my mother’s hard cover edition as soon as she was done with it. Then, hearing that Spielberg had bought the rights for it, I knew I had…
Back To The Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis
I love this movie so much! It’s always a joy to watch, and it puts me right back in 1985, I remember seeing it, reading the novel on my way to school, I remember playing the soundtrack over and over until the ink of the track listings was completely faded, I even got myself a…
V – 30 Years On
The Visitors arrived 30 years ago this week. Kenneth Johnson’s aliens who came to earth posing as our friends while hiding not only a horrible appearance but an equally terrifying agenda premiered with the original mini-series V. The sad thing is, I wasn’t allowed to stay up and watch all of it, and we certainly…
Warm Bodies – Jonathan Levine
This movie didn’t really catch my eye until my friend started talking about how much she was looking forward to seeing it. I found myself kind of intrigued by the storyline she described, and then once I really watched the trailer, I knew I was in. Counting down silently in my head to the…
TIFF 2012: Mr. Pip – Andrew Adamson
Whenever I hear that a film that is coming out has been based on a novel, I am usually prepared to just like it, at best. Movies are rarely as good as the book, and so I automatically go in with slightly lowered expectations as a result. Even – as in this case –…
Toronto Library’s Writer In Residence Program
One of the many wonderful things about the Toronto Public Library system is their Writer In Residence program. I’d never heard of it until a friend pointed me in that direction last year, just in time to get an except of Carving The Light submitted to the woman who was the WIR that time,…
Carving The Light – Publisher’s Weekly Review – ABNA 2012
Carving The Light did not advance to the ABNA semifinal round this morning, but as a quarterfinalist, it did receive a short review from Publisher’s Weekly – which is pretty freaking amazing, and more than I’d hoped for when I entered. After reading other contestants’ reviews, I was worried about what mine would say….
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award – Carving The Light is a Quarterfinalist!!!
I’m still sort of in shock, and struggling to figure out what I want to say, let alone how to say it, but I promised myself that I would do my best to get some thoughts down tonight, on the eve of this very crazy day. Carving The Light was announced as one of the…
The Mind Reels 