Books to Movies Book Haul!

This week I picked up a few books that have been made into movies recently. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is due out in theaters June 12th and Far From the Madding Crowd was released May 22nd. I loved Far From the Madding Crowd! It was a fun period film but definitely had those moments that make a viewer uncomfortable (poor, poor sheep). I would absolutely check it out! Mr. Oak > Mr. Darcy??? Maybe ;)

Title: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Author: Jesse Andrews
Page Count: 295 w/o author interview, 308 w/ interview
Genre: YA

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics.

Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel.

Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—-cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—-but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives.

And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight.  


Title: Far from the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy
Page Count: 434
Genre: Fiction

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.