30 Days of Book Love - Day 1

So, last month I made a post on my Facebook page about what kind of books and gifts people wanted to win when they entered Rafflecopter giveaways.  I got a small response, and it was helpful.  Which leads me to this:   

30 Days of Book Love
MJ Abraham got me and three other authors (Angie McKeon, Barbie Bohrman and Claire Contreras) to come together and engage readers - each day we will post one book related question that we will answer, and our hope is to get you to answer too.  The fun part is seeing the diversity of how all of our answers will be different, or even the same.  I hope you enjoy it as much as we will.  We've had fun discussing our answers and planning this out.  
Of course, there will be prizes and incentives for playing along.  Check out the link below.  And make sure you stop by our Facebook pages and check out what we're up to.  All of us are in the middle of releasing some great books soon!
So, without further adieu... Today's question:
Favorite book turned into a movie where the movie did it justice
I'll admit... this one was a tough one for me to answer, only because I didn't have an immediate one.  I had to sit and think about it for a while because the movie hardly, if ever, does the book justice.  Right?  
So, I sat on this one for a day or two and really put some thought into it.

And this is what I've come up with...



I read the Time Traveler's Wife in 2006, and I loved the story.  I loved the uniqueness of it - and I appreciated, as a writer, how the author effectively told this love story without over-complicating it with too many details of the time traveling.

So, in 2009, when the movie releases, I am very hesitant. I usually don't throw all my hopes in to movies that are adapted from books.  This one was especially worrisome, because, how to you effectively tell the time traveling story line without taking away from the love story?

Well, it was done.  And it didn't hurt that Eric Bana is HOT!

Did you see or read the Time Traveler's Wife?  What did you think of the book and the movie adaptation?

What's your favorite book/movie?

Here's the Amazon link for the Time Traveler's Wife:
The Time Travelers Wife


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