Barnes & Noble was caught in a controversy about a week ago. To try and honor Black History Month, the company commissioned artists to redesign classic novel covers, like The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, The Secret Garden, Peter Pan etc. The company was quick to dole out apologies but the damage was done. They canceled the release of the covers and we are left with the mountains of tweets of people and authors of color trying make sense of what they did. Authors like Roxane Gay, Angie Thomas, David Bowles added to the conversation. Image via The New York …
Today is Make a Friend Day and what better way to make a friend then to share a story about best friends who can wear the same pants. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books were written by Ann Brashares and the adaptions of the books to big screen were released in 2005 and 2008 respectively for both films. Image via Sherman Ave I first came across this story from the movies and I instantly liked them. There are kind of a guilty pleasure of mine, they’re fun, sweet and perfect for a lazy day in. The idea is …
Today is Umbrella day so we obviously have to talk about The Umbrella Academy. The Umbrella Academy was originally a graphic novel series written by Gerard freaking Way as you all know by now, hopefully. Am I the only one who thinks it will take forever for season two? I honestly can’t be held accountable for what I do while I wait. Image via Buzzfeed The first season was incredible. It put the graphic novels on my radar and the fact that the ICON himself was behind it, was a sign that this was a gold mine for Netflix …
The movie adaptation of the classic Neil Gaiman novel Coraline came out eleven years ago today and let’s face it, it’s still creepy. I absolutely love it though, so here are some great quotes in honor of the movie coming out and how it gave us all wonderful nightmares. Image via Indiewire “We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We will be here when you fall.” “It doth not hurt”, whispered a faint voice, “She will take you life and all you are …
I’ve been listening to the Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on repeat for a while now, and I thought this would be a perfect story to talk about during the month of love. Because seriously, what’s romance in literature with out some tragedy and murder, right? It was originally a story called The String of Pearls and there have many adaptions but none more famous than the 70’s musical with music done by the legend Stephen Sondheim. My first introduction to the story was the 2007 film adaptation directed by Tim Burton which starred Johnny Depp, Helen …
