“A Zombie in Possession of Brains Must be in Want of More Brains”

October 30, 2014 by Caitlin

Halloween is my favorite time of year. There’s nothing I like better than playing dress up. And the decorations! Macabre and black and orange and rotting. I love it. My mother shares this passion with me. She’s been known to throw a hell of a Halloween party, complete with a different theme decor for each room (witch’s kitchen, mad scientist’s lab, etc. etc.). She’s also the person who instilled my love of reading and took me to the library where I absorbed fairy […]

Categories: Happy Hour • Tags: Classic literature, Halloween, Jane Austen, Literary Happy Hour, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith, shots shots shots

Get Gone – 5 Reasons to Love the Gone Girl Adaptation

October 6, 2014 by Caitlin

It’s rare that you see a movie that truly does justice to a book, and even more rare that a movie is slightly better than the book. Gone Girl, in my humble opinion, is one of those rare, rare gems that outshines its source material. David Fincher’s adaptation of this psychological thriller opened in theaters this past weekend, smashing it at the box office with a cool $38 million. The movie follows Nick Dunne (played excellently by Ben Affleck), a […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: "The book is better than the movie", adaptations, Ben Affleck, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Rosamund Pike