Eve's Fan Garden

  Waaaaay back in June, we posted that the distributors of the Red Riding Hood DVD set would be raffling off 25 copies to participating blogs. If we won a copy, you’d win a copy (well, ONE of you would win! ) Well, I just got the notification that Eve’s Fan Garden was chosen! So, [...]

Waaaay back in February, I reviewed Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakly-Cartwright.  The novel was based on the movie directed by Catherine Hardwick of Twilight fame.  While the book was enjoyable on its own, some of the final questions about the love triangle were answered in the movie. Well, here’s your chance to win a [...]

Congrats to Alex Flinn on hitting the #1 spot  on the New York Times Best Seller list!   Beastly is a modern day retelling of the classic tale  Beauty and the Beast – told through the Beast’s eyes. It was featured here on Eve’s Fan Garden in July 2010 as a Book of the Month [...]

Congratulations to Alex Flinn on the release of her eighth novel for young adults, Cloaked. Click here to read Eve’s Fan Garden review of Cloaked. Alex is also the best-selling author of Beastly – which is “soon to be a major motion picture”.  Coming to a theater near you on March 4. For more about [...]

January 30th We are so excited to be a part of this meme, called In My Mailbox, originally started on The Story Siren book blog. Basically, each week we will post what goodies, give-a-ways, ARCs, etc we received in the mail, books we purchased, or checked out from the library. To learn more about how [...]

Sarah Rees Brennan announced today some fantastic news about a possible movie for The Demon’s Lexicon.  Parallel Films has optioned the rights to Demon’s Lexicon which doesn’t necessarily mean they will make the movie, but it means they might.  And that makes me excited! I started a thread in our new forums to talk about [...]

Lauren Oliver announced today that Fox 2000 has purchased the film rights to her debut novel Before I Fall. I’m very excited  not only for Lauren, but also for myself. Here’s why: Back in January of this year, I contacted a publicist at Harper Collins about a book we were looking at for Book of [...]

Alex Flinn, author of this month’s Book selection Beastly was born in New York, but moved to Miami in middle school. Now married with two daughters, she continues to reside in Miami.  Alex is a former attorney who wrote her first novel, Breathing Underwater, about dating violence, was based on her experiences in the Florida [...]

I don’t know about you, but when I read a book, I see a movie of it playing in my head. Then, if I hear that the book is being made into a Hollywood feature film, I wonder if it will match the images I saw while reading. Beastly, by Alex Flinn,  one of our [...]

One of our featured books for the month of July is Beastly by Alex Flinn. Beastly is a modern day re-telling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast, set in  New York City. Kyle Kingsbury has it all – good looks, popularity, plenty of money. But, then a strange Emo girl in his [...]

I had the privilege of attending an advance screening of The Twilight Sage: Eclipse at Groman’s Chinese in Los Angeles with several fans and Twilight fansite administrators. We were not only treated to the movie, but also by a handful of the actors, including the big three who made their appearance via  a surprise interruption [...]

Adding one more must-see movie to my summer movie list. I’m loving the markings on his skin and the witch’s wardrobe! What do you think? For more on Beastly visit www.beastlythemovie.com -Britten

“`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths outgrabe.” -“Jabberwocky” from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872 by Lewis Carroll Anticipation and expectations have been high for several months as many have awaited the release of Tim Burton [...]

Please join us on March 15th, 5:30 pm pacific time, to chat about the enduring classics Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass! Our chat will begin with discussing the books and progress to chatting about how the books compare with the new Tim Burton Movie.   mmmm…. Johnny…. You can find our chat [...]

I always love a good, cute, angsty, funny, coming of age story. Girls AND women can all relate to the uncomfortable awkwardness of being a teenager in love with a boy. It’s the same for all of us and we just never never never forget what it was like. This cute movie may be made [...]