Elin

I love the moomins! I've named my turtle Filifjonkan

I haven't read them since I was little so can't remember which one I liked the best, but would guess it's between the first two. Have been meaning to read them again, but fear I will be bugged about the heavy religious meaning and that it will change how I feel about them.

I'm with you Sheeta, Jackson Rathbone is amazing. So Jasper's a clear favourite and his story is one of the most interesting ones as well. Rosalie is another favourite, I've spent hours defending her actions and thoughts and now I really feel for her. I wish she had more backflash scenes in Eclipse.

Din't even think of that and no one else at my club brought it up. I really like that (it's a bit like Summer Sisters), that Kate who everything is about never really get to be a part of the telling. But! the first quote of the book, the one that starts with:

I saw the film first, and did like it a lot, for most parts. Both Bana and McAdams did great but for a film called the time traveler's (anyone know why there's only one l?) wife it focused very much on Henry... Of course lots more happens to him and all but still.. It took me quite som time to get used to her writing, I found it to chopped up and describing and the most stilted way, not flowing at all. but after awhile I guess I got used to it. Because of the travelling there's so much info told early in the book that explains things later when I no longer remembered it. it's a book that needs to be read again, I feel.

Don't think I know of any book where they travel to different countries, and these books are fiction, but Alex Garland's The beach is lots better than the film and really good. Losing Gemma by Katy Gardner is about to friends who travel to India and there get separated.

The book is told from Briony's pov but by using the third person narrative (or how to say it) we're told things Briony isn't..

Loved the Brittany/Britney episode!! Heather is amazing and will hopefully get more screentime after this. her character's the best

both sleep, pale sister and the evil seed sounds very interesting. they're nowhere to be found in this country, though...

for me it's usually the other way around, a win-win situation to see the film first; if it's good the book will most likely be much better and if it's not then the book is still surely good because why would they make a film out of a bad book?

the city is broiling in an early summer heat wave, and for the third day in a row Victoria buys a salad from the Korean market around the corner and has lunch at her desk. from summer sisters by Judy Blume.

I love this book! Especially the beginning and the descriptions of how she slowly looses it all. Preferred the way of writing in the beginning though, it wasn't as poetic and powerful later on, more like she was eager to get it finished and done with. Haven't read any of her poetry but the book feels quite like Emily Dickinson's poems, I think.

I felt that ending to be heartbreaking! Its just awful what happens to them all, one little mistake and everyone's doomed.. It's been a while since I read it so might get it confused with the film, but

^I felt the same about the film, I loved the book when I read it some years ago. But they changed so much in the film, it was quite awful and not at all how I remembered the book to be.

aren't they always in films... hard to find a less than beautiful woman in a leading role in an american film. it's like he would never have fell for her if she wasn't that good looking or something vile...

It's Wuthering Heightsfor me too. Cathy and Heathcliff's love story is probably the greatest. Though the part I thought about is oh, love.

I think it might be easier to explore a characters person by using the all-knowing third persons pov, as that one will tell even the darkest thoughts.. But what I meant about giving each person their own characteristic "voice" to tell their story doesn't get as powerful if told in third person as it is in first person; It wont be their thoughts as much as the telling of their thoughts. At least I've never found a book where I could read one sentence and instantly know which character it's from, when told in third ppov.

So many! Life on the refrigerator door by Alice Kuipers Peter Pohl and Kinna Geiths I miss you, I miss you! had me crying for hours and I get a big lump in my throat and tears in my eyes just thinking about it. It's hearth breaking and based on Kinna's life after her twin-sister dies in a car-accident. Jodi Picoult'sMy sisters keeper Vildängel by Lina Forss to name a few

Hello everyone! And thanks for the welcome

Ah, the ones from Paris? But she wasn't really supposed to look dorky then, only a bit awkward...

Both Rolf Lassgård and Krister Henriksson has played Wallander in the swedish versions, Lassgård was the first(of these two at least) and in my opinion the best one. And I agree with emelee the Beck films and books are a must! Gunvald is priceless ( ;

As long as the writing is good it doesn't really matter. Though I've always loved books with several pov' in which the writer manages to give them all their own style; by using a different tempo, other expressions or lengths of sentences etc. they give a new flow to the text which I find very interesting.

I felt the same way when I heard she was cast, but based on photos from the set it looks great! And she really does look that ordinary quite dorky.. (: And I love Jim Sturgess but would never have thought of him as Dex when I read the book but now I actually think this casting sounds very good. I can't waitfor the trailer I had a lot more problems with Ian while reading than with Dexter, I never liked him and was just annoyed.

I've not read the books but do like the show very much. a friend read some of them and said they are very different from each other. as I understand it the first book(s) is told from blair's pov whereas the show more has serena as the focus, and seeing as they don't really get along that well at first it gives them a different feel.. *rambling*

Misery is just more interesting... I think that's why all the greatest love stories has a bit of it in them, not to say that all the best are tragic stories, it's just that for the greatest part of the novel the love story will have to be about longing and loss. Like the great quote by Jeanette Winterson "Why, is the measure of love loss?" You don't always know what you have until it's too late... For me, I just find it so much more powerful to read about a painful love that one that is full of happiness. It doesn't have to have a tragic ending or any tragedy at all really, as long as something goes wrong that makes the characters experience the loss of love. Wuthering Heights and Persuasion are probably the best ones in my opinion. Nicole Krauss' History of love could also be a great one.