Hi, everyone! BookPage is closed today and Monday to make way for poppers and champagne — or curling up with some dogs and the Alexander McQueen book (ahem).
But there were a few things I’ve been soaking up this week I just had to share in our weekly links…
One of my favorite art & culture blogs, Colossal, completely knocked my socks off last week with these carved book landscapes by Guy Laramee. (HuffPost also took note.) Colossal quoted Laramee: “So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains.”
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We got the scoop from GalleyCat about songs from a forthcoming companion album to The Hunger Games movie (the soundtrack will be released separately). It will include Arcade Fire with a song titled “Horn of Plenty” and The Decemberists with “One Engine.”
Below is the track for “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars:
Read more to get info about Jennifer Lawrence’s contributions to the album!
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After a banner year for YA movies (War Horse, HP 7.2, Tintin, Hugo and Twilight) and 2012 looking strong as well (of course, Hunger Games), Salon asked a number of authors — including Sherman Alexie, Gregory Maguire and Sara Zarr — to name their best and worst picks in teen book-to-movie adaptations and to name the titles they favor for future features on the silver screen.
For example, here’s what Kathryn Lasky (the Guardians of Ga’Hoole series) had to say:
Which book would I like to see adapted? “The Giver.” Why that book has not been turned into a movie I don’t know. I suppose right now, everybody’s into … vampires and very flashy, brutal dystopias; “The Giver” is so quiet, compared to that — no vampires. But that is the one movie that I feel absolutely should be made.
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Have a wonderful weekend! We’ll see you next year! (har har)
Kathryn Lasky is amazing! I love the Giver and would be delighted to see it made into a movie, and she also mentions Tom’s Midnight Garden, which is such a wonderful story! She definitely jumped inside my head with that response.
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