How free are we as Americans if we are living under a justice system that is fundamentally unfair? Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, is an attorney who has successfully defended some of society’s most vulnerable and oppressed people in landmark cases before the Supreme Court. In Just Mercy, he asks us to contemplate …
by Beth Elderkin for i09 8/15/18 Stephen King isn’t the only author who’s becoming more and more prevalent on the big and small screens. It was just announced that Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette Nine Lives is getting a movie adaptation, adding to the growing pile of Le Guin works that are reportedly in the works. The accomplished author …
I am a big fan of author Stephen Hunter and his sniper/hero Bob Lee Swagger. I have now read the first four books in the Bob Lee series plus the World War II stand-alone, Master Sniper. They are all page turners for sure. I started reading these books with book four– The 47th Samurai — because of …
I’ve been a John Green fan for a number of years and this is one of my favorite books for a number of reasons. Green has taken the “manic pixie girl” trope and used to create a story not about a boy chasing after some flighty, charismatic, indie chick, but instead he has crafted a …
The Oscars are this Sunday. Many of the nominated films are connected to books. Were the books better than the movies? Weigh in on the comments! Best Picture “American Sniper” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” “The Imitation Game” “The Theory of Everything” Actor Steve Carell in “Foxcatcher” Bradley Cooper in “American Sniper” Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation …
