Awesome
new movies come out EVERY week in the theaters, but so many of them
are inspired by books. Did you know a lot of this year’s
Oscar-nominated movies were once books?
We’ve
put together a list of our fave books-turned-Oscar-nominated flicks.
Get reading before you find out which movie takes home the coveted
award. Remember: The 84th
Academy Awards airs next
Sunday, Feb. 26, at
7 p.m. ET
on ABC.
The
Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Want
to read a really strange, cool and mysterious book? This one’s for
you! A 12-year-old boy lives in the walls of a train station. He
spends his time being kind of invisible to the world. But everything
changes when he gets tangled up in a mystery involving a bizarre
girl, a toy shop, his father and a broken machine.
Grab the book here!
Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Full
of adventure, this book will really pull you in. Oskar, a
nine-year-old boy finds an odd key just laying inside of a vase. He
doesn’t know anything about it, but plans on finding out. So he
sets out on an adventure through NYC to find everything there is to
know about this key and soon discovers the mystery behind it.
Grab the book here!
Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
If
you enjoy baseball, then this book is a must. It revolves around the
Oakland baseball team and its manger, Billy Beane. You read along as
baseball players are selected for the team based on new criteria: How
they stack up against an analysis system. No longer are players
simply watched to see how good they are. Instead, their stats are put
into some program and the manager decides who’s good.
Grab the book
here!
War
Horse by Michael
Morpurgo
Ever
have a pet you loved more than anything and was a huge part of your
family? Albert, a young boy, felt that way about his horse, Joey. And
when Joey is sold to the war effort in France during World War I,
Albert is super upset! Years later, Albert is still upset and, even
though he isn’t old enough to enlist into war, he sets on a journey
to find his beloved horse. Aww!
Grab the book
here!
Have
you read any of these books? Seen the movies? What is your favorite
book-turned-movie? Blog about it, babes.
BY RACHAEL ELLENBOGEN ON 2/19/2012 12:00:00 AM
POSTED IN entertainment, awards, Oscars, Book Club, books we love