Misadventures of the Monster Librarian

Why reinvent the wheel? Why should Hollywood come up with clever ideas for new movies when there are so many fun books out there? This isn't the first year that it's happened that many books will be turned into movies, but there are definitely some that I'm super excited about!! Divergent , Veronica Roth The Fault in Our Stars , John Green The Giver , Lois Lowry At the same time that I'm excited I'm so scared that they're going to get it wrong and ruin these books, especially the latter two! Which of you beloved books have been turned into movies/are being turned into movies? And were you happy with the movie/are you excited to see it on the big screen? Thanks @BuzzFeed Books for this list .

She gets to play Tris AND Hazel!? JEALOUS!

Because I've been attending the high school's Teen Book Group, I've had to add a few new books into my repertoire--we recently read Divergent by Veronia Roth, and oh my gosh, I had so much fun! I've been reading some slower moving books about spirituality and some others for my Adult Book Group that wouldn't necessarily be things I would seek out on my own, so this was such a breath of fresh air! The book, a dystopian novel set in a time when our country is divided into factions (a little Hunger Games-y), follows Beatrice as she must decide whether to stay in her faction or choose a new one, all while she is musing over some disturbing and confusing bit of info about herself that she recently received. The book reads like so many teen books, fast paced and fun, what it lacks in perfect writing style and has in cliches, it makes up for it by being absorbing the same way that The Hunger Games was, and like The Hunger Games , Divergent is set to be another YA tril...