Musing Mondays #2

Musing Monday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

This weeks muse:

Do you like movies made from books? Which ones do you think have been done well — kept mostly to the plot of the book, etc?

This is a really interesting question. I have a love/hate relationship with movies made from books, mainly because the movies dont always stay true to the book. A classic example of this is Stanley Kubricks The Shining. Although I thought Jack Nicholson did an amazing job I just didn't like the way it had been written or directed, some people may disagree with me on this.

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter movies and The Green Mile are all examples of book to movie adaptations that I feel did the books justice.

I can't wait to see how The Hunger Games translates into a movie, hopefully it will work.

Musing Mondays #1

Musing Monday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading.

This weeks muse:

What was the last thing that you stayed up half the night reading because it was so good you couldn't put it down?

This is an interesting question. There are two books that spring to mind that I can say that I couldn't put down and found myself staying up ALL night to finish. They are The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and In The Arms of Stone Angels by Jordan Dane. Both of these books were awesome and I found it really difficult to put them down once I started them.