en-US Sat, 18 Feb 2023 10:54:38 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 9532180 De legende van Sleepy Hollow, waarin Ichabod Crane een ontmoeting met de hoofdloze ruiter overleeft; Rip van Winkle, waarin de geesten een man bevrijden van een feeks en De schatgravers (een cyclus over het vervloekte goud van kapitein Kidd).]]> 239 Washington Irving 9024535077 Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 3.48 1820
author: Washington Irving
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1820
rating: 0
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]]> 9460487 9781594744761

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.]]> 352 Ransom Riggs 1594744769 Taylor C 4 book-movie-related 3.92 2011
author: Ransom Riggs
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2019/02/11
date added: 2019/02/11
shelves: book-movie-related
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]]> 13335037
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.]]> 487 Veronica Roth 0062024035 Taylor C 0 book-movie-related, to-read 4.13 2011
author: Veronica Roth
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/11/22
shelves: book-movie-related, to-read
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]]> 22557272
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 336 Paula Hawkins 1594633665 Taylor C 0 book-movie-related
I'm late to the punch on reading this, so all I can really say is I hated reading it, loved listening to it, and can't wait for the movie.]]> 3.97 2015
author: Paula Hawkins
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2016/05/25
date added: 2017/02/25
shelves: book-movie-related
review:
It was difficult for me to decide if I liked this story. If I would have continued reading it, I wouldn't have finished. So I'm glad I listened to the audiobook so I could find out that ending! The audiobook has 3 different female narrators for Anna, Rachel, and Megan.

I'm late to the punch on reading this, so all I can really say is I hated reading it, loved listening to it, and can't wait for the movie.
]]> 6327 Note: This edition shares ISBN 0590032496 with another edition.

This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.]]> 208 Roald Dahl 0590032496 Taylor C 3 book-movie-related Lovely characters? Adorable.
The ending? Just gives up.
Was it basically sad the whole time but made me giggle? You betcha.

I have such mixed feels. Roald Dahl is such a twisted, clever man. I enjoy his books as an adult. (I only read Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so please gimme some slack on my perspective lol). If I was younger I'd love how strange this story is. I mean, I still love how strange it is, but it's almost not strange enough. The action scenes were too short and the meeting of the Witches took FOREVER. (I think he was trying to be funny with that aspect though, but I found it mostly annoying)

I just, with the boy, we do not truly know if he ends up ok. Then the end was just so misleading.

"Oh let's go do this after what we went through. Let's also talk about it most of the time before actually doing it....
Ok bye!"
Like.. what.....? Why would there be such a lengthy middle and the end just.. stopped. I was wanting another 10 pages at least. The BFG and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory definitely ended leaving me feeling accomplished and satisfied. I love this story but it did not end well at all. I'm hoping the next Dahl book I read will have a punch to it.]]> 4.18 1981
author: Roald Dahl
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1981
rating: 3
read at: 2016/07/21
date added: 2016/09/14
shelves: book-movie-related
review:
Do I recommend? Yes.
Lovely characters? Adorable.
The ending? Just gives up.
Was it basically sad the whole time but made me giggle? You betcha.

I have such mixed feels. Roald Dahl is such a twisted, clever man. I enjoy his books as an adult. (I only read Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so please gimme some slack on my perspective lol). If I was younger I'd love how strange this story is. I mean, I still love how strange it is, but it's almost not strange enough. The action scenes were too short and the meeting of the Witches took FOREVER. (I think he was trying to be funny with that aspect though, but I found it mostly annoying)

I just, with the boy, we do not truly know if he ends up ok. Then the end was just so misleading.

"Oh let's go do this after what we went through. Let's also talk about it most of the time before actually doing it....
Ok bye!"
Like.. what.....? Why would there be such a lengthy middle and the end just.. stopped. I was wanting another 10 pages at least. The BFG and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory definitely ended leaving me feeling accomplished and satisfied. I love this story but it did not end well at all. I'm hoping the next Dahl book I read will have a punch to it.
]]> 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Taylor C 4 book-movie-related, kindle For me, I did the unthinkable. I accomplished something I never thought I'd be able to do. I read a Jane Austen novel, a British Romanticism, and i did it all in under two weeks.

I figured the language, the etiquette would be the most difficult part for me. Well... it was I'm not even going to sugar coat it. I had a terrible time keeping myself concentrated in the middle of this novel because of the length of the narrations. After about Chapter 30 however, the book flew by! So don't let the literature bring you down.

Whilst beginning the book, I was overly excited by even picking it up. Reading something that is basically a Legend, being 202 years old, gave me a sense of joy and accomplishment without even starting the story. Speaking of the story, the witty comments from page one left me chuckling and giggling immediately. The sly shade from Austen was just pure joy. Who knew you could be so coy yet insulting and yet you can sound like the most charming person in the room.

Jumping to the middle, I truly felt like my eyes were like raindrops sliding down a glass door. I could NOT keep my eyes focused, my brain functioning. The narration was just so over the top for me. Austen wrote it perfectly, but my thought process is too modern for such a novel.

What became really fun was the last third of the book. I'm judging you. But he likes her. Oh but maybe I shouldn't have been "prejudice". Now she's all lovey dovey, gooey and mushy over her Mr. Darcy. Seriously, so cute! And towards the end with Bingley and Jane.... OH MY GOD! So freaking cute I couldn't even stand it!

The last two chapters had to be my favorite part of the whole book. It was so reassuring to know what happened after 3 marriages, Mrs. Bennet was probably going to die if she didn't get her daughters married, and Mr. Bennet giving slight approval.

Bravo Austen, bravo!

One curious factor that many of us have probably thought of. What would modern day Jane Austen think of her successful novel? It's a question we will never know, but I will continue to be overly curious about. ]]> 4.28 1813
author: Jane Austen
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1813
rating: 4
read at: 2016/06/15
date added: 2016/08/03
shelves: book-movie-related, kindle
review:
*Giving a review- I was a discussion leader for this book*
For me, I did the unthinkable. I accomplished something I never thought I'd be able to do. I read a Jane Austen novel, a British Romanticism, and i did it all in under two weeks.

I figured the language, the etiquette would be the most difficult part for me. Well... it was I'm not even going to sugar coat it. I had a terrible time keeping myself concentrated in the middle of this novel because of the length of the narrations. After about Chapter 30 however, the book flew by! So don't let the literature bring you down.

Whilst beginning the book, I was overly excited by even picking it up. Reading something that is basically a Legend, being 202 years old, gave me a sense of joy and accomplishment without even starting the story. Speaking of the story, the witty comments from page one left me chuckling and giggling immediately. The sly shade from Austen was just pure joy. Who knew you could be so coy yet insulting and yet you can sound like the most charming person in the room.

Jumping to the middle, I truly felt like my eyes were like raindrops sliding down a glass door. I could NOT keep my eyes focused, my brain functioning. The narration was just so over the top for me. Austen wrote it perfectly, but my thought process is too modern for such a novel.

What became really fun was the last third of the book. I'm judging you. But he likes her. Oh but maybe I shouldn't have been "prejudice". Now she's all lovey dovey, gooey and mushy over her Mr. Darcy. Seriously, so cute! And towards the end with Bingley and Jane.... OH MY GOD! So freaking cute I couldn't even stand it!

The last two chapters had to be my favorite part of the whole book. It was so reassuring to know what happened after 3 marriages, Mrs. Bennet was probably going to die if she didn't get her daughters married, and Mr. Bennet giving slight approval.

Bravo Austen, bravo!

One curious factor that many of us have probably thought of. What would modern day Jane Austen think of her successful novel? It's a question we will never know, but I will continue to be overly curious about.
]]> 843550 32 William Steig 0374466238 Taylor C 5 book-movie-related
Overall, if you're a huge fan of the movies like me, just take 10 minutes to read the book and see what the original Shrek was like, with his pink jelly bean looking shirt and yellow trousers. ]]> 3.82 1990
author: William Steig
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at: 2016/07/18
date added: 2016/07/18
shelves: book-movie-related
review:
I find it amazing how the director and writers made such a lengthy movie based off a 32 page book. I think the room of mirrors has to be my favorite. Something so "repulsive" facing himself so many times. It was amusing and entertaining how much he liked looking at himself. :)

Overall, if you're a huge fan of the movies like me, just take 10 minutes to read the book and see what the original Shrek was like, with his pink jelly bean looking shirt and yellow trousers.
]]> 227443 a. lose 7 pounds
b. stop smoking
c. develop Inner Poise

"129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)..."

"Bridget Jones' Diary" is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement �� a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult - and learn to program the VCR.

Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and �� like millions of readers the world round �� you'll find yourself shouting, "Bridget Jones is me!"]]> 288 Helen Fielding 014028009X Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 3.81 1996
author: Helen Fielding
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

(back cover)]]> 213 Stephen Chbosky Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 4.24 1999
author: Stephen Chbosky
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> 22896 Alternate cover for ISBN 9780425190371 (currently here).

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape.

One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...
]]> 286 Alice Hoffman Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 3.70 1995
author: Alice Hoffman
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/26
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]]> 6693 96 Roald Dahl 0375822070 Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 4.09 1970
author: Roald Dahl
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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]]> 6689 176 Roald Dahl 0375814248 Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 4.04 1961
author: Roald Dahl
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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]]> 39988 “The Trunchbull�� is no match for Matilda!

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world...

For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will, and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian, and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No. 1 Storyteller.]]> 240 Roald Dahl 043512398X Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 4.33 1988
author: Roald Dahl
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> 233682
When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son—and now an idyllic home. As a family, they’ve got it all...right down to the friendly cat.

But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth—more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.
(back cover)]]> 562 Stephen King 0743412273 Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 3.94 1983
author: Stephen King
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> 9375 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who is telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women, the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.]]> 416 Fannie Flagg 0375508414 Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 4.28 1987
author: Fannie Flagg
name: Taylor C
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/26
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]]> 47401
Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality. In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate festival.

Chocolat's every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any holiday.]]> 306 Joanne Harris 014100018X Taylor C 0 to-read, book-movie-related 3.97 1999
author: Joanne Harris
name: Taylor C
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/05/11
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