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Gone Girl Movie Cast Poll: You Choose the Actors!

Cast Your Votes! Who Should Play Nick and Amy Dunne in Gone Girl: The Movie? Gone Girl Book Cover We've clearly established that there is much interest in who is going to be cast as Nick and Amy Dunne in the upcoming movie version of Gillian Flynn's best selling novel Gone Girl.  When we first talked about the movie we did a little early speculating on who might best play these juicy roles (you can read that article here) and I came up with a couple of non-starters with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman.  While I love them [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:01-07:00April 12th, 2013|Tags: , , |

Gone Girl – The Movie

Let's Pick the Cast! A while back I read and reviewed Gillian Flynn's bestselling thriller Gone Girl.  As it turns out, the book is being made into a movie.  I'm not surprised - it was successful and that's all it usually takes.  But in this case, I love the idea - the book is so solid, the plot to well woven and the characters so much evil fun that in the right hands, it could be a great movie. The most fun part about anticipating any book to movie adaptation is playing Home Casting Director.  Who do we think should [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:02-07:00February 21st, 2013|

Feeling Bookish?

As you may already know, I'm on Goodreads, although more for the book-tracking part of it than the social media part. I mean, you're welcome to friend me or whatever, but I don't spend a lot of time writing reviews, leaving comments, or chatting with others about their account activity; I know a lot of people do, it's just not what I like to use it for. So I found it interesting that three of the biggest publishers — Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and Penguin Group (USA) — have teamed up to launch a competing social-media-for-readers website, Bookish. [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:03-07:00February 12th, 2013|
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