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Book vs film: Team Book takes the win

A collage of book covers for Warm Bodies, The Gunslinger, Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, A Wizard Of Earthsea, Never Let me Go, The Lovely Bones, The Color Out of Space and Howl's Moving Castle.

Last week I closed up Book vs Film: a season of reviews comparing eight novels to their big-screen adaptations. The books won, but as the cliché goes, it’s about the journey, not the destination. The working title for this season of The Book Corner was “good book, shit film”. As group-sourced projects often go, not […]

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Book vs film: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Susie Salmon's surreal heaven in The Lovely Bones includes a bandstand in a lake beneath a ghostly clock.
Susie Salmon's ethereal heaven in The Lovely Bones, 2009.

The Book Corner season 5: Book vs film. Episode 6: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Alice Sebold’s 2002 debut novel delivered a bold and uplifting take on a brutal child murder story. In 2009, The Lovely Bones became a film by Peter Jackson, but neither the critics nor the box office warmed to his […]