Oscar Books

Did you watch the Academy Awards three weeks ago? OK, so I'm a little behind in blogging about it. Besides watching to see the fashion, I love to see which movies win big and then go see them if I haven't already (and I don't go to the movies as often as I used to, so chances are good I haven't seen all the year's best movies). I was hoping for big wins for the two books I had read that had corresponding movies out in the past year: The Help by Kathryn Stockett and War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (I had also seen Jane Eyre and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). However, I've missed quite a few. Book Reporter has summed it up nicely here. My reading list is growing by leaps and bounds!

More on War Horse

Here's a link to a USA Today article on War Horse. The movie is out right now 29 years after the book was first published. The young adult novel is now on USA Today's Best-Selling Books list. This is one of the rare cases that I liked the play better than the book. I liked the movie but the production was much, much better!