Author Archives: Sarah Sommer

About Sarah Sommer

Sarah is a journalist and an artist who lives in the city. She loves movies and television. She reads early and often. Sarah also helps out over at BSCkids.com and our other sites!

Garth Stein on The Art of Racing in the Rain

 

They want to make my book into a movie?  Heck, they might as well make it into a haiku, I thought when I first got the news.

I mean, I spent a long time writing, revising, and crafting as good of a book as I possibly could.  And now they want to compress it to two hours of screen time?

But then I got a phone call from Patrick Dempsey, who had signed on to play the lead character, Denny Swift, and I thought, well, okay; I think this is going to work. Continue reading →

A Girl’s Read of City of Bones – Part 2

Part two of this novel, was crazy long. It was a major section of plot for the story. I made this section super long, because I had to. I got really into toward the end of the section. It got pretty intense. I hope when them movie comes out, they take this part seriously and do it right. Continue reading →

What You Can Love After Twilight Ends

With the Twilight Saga coming to end next year, the world needs a new box office reign to have our affection. Without Bella and Edward in our lives, whose teams are we are going root for? And whose wedding are we going wait months to see! Well, there are a couple of new sagas that might be awesome enough to grab our heartstrings. Continue reading →

Five Books That Could Be Movies But (Probably) Never Will

It seems that is we wait long enough, every book will eventually become a movie. They are popping up everywhere these days. However, a couple of my favorite books, are probably low on the list of potential remakes (and I am totally fine with that), whether this is due to the bizarre plot, or the magnitude of the setting, or even because you don’t know who the narrator is, for whatever reason, these books aren’t going to be films for a while. I have selected five books from my personal library that I have loved and loved over the years, and these five books, while amazing in print, might not be so amazing in film. Continue reading →