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!

The Help

I'm a magazine junkie. I have so many that I'm usually behind. Right now I'd love to be reading about Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes I might like to try, but I'm still working through the October magazine pile. One of my new favorite magazine subscriptions is Atlanta Magazine. It's a fun read each month, telling me all the places in Atlanta I should be eating and all the other great things the city has to offer that I should take advantage of.

I recently read the September issue and was pleased as punch to see a Q&A with Kathryn Stockett, Atlanta resident and author of one of my favorite reads this year, The Help. There is even more good news associated with this bestseller: filming for the movie has begun in Mississippi, Stockett is considering writing a short story prequel to her novel, and she's at the beginning stages of writing a second novel. Hooray!