Hello Spring!

Weekend Reads

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
 

2016 is here!

Best 2015 Movies

1. The Man from U.N.C.L.E


2. Mad Max: Fury Road

3. Cinderella

4. Spectre

5. Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2


6. Crimson Peak


7. Shaun the Sheep Movie

8. Goosebumps

9. Krampus

10. Jupiter Ascending

Best 2015 Children's Books

1. The Girl Who Walked On Air

2. The Lost Children

3. Shiverton Hall: The Creeper

4. Violet and the Pearl of Orient

5. The Time of Fireflies

Top 5 Books of 2015

1.The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
 
2. The Miniaturist

3. The Invention of Wings

4.  The Museum of Extraordinary Things

5. The Girl with all the Gifts

Unforgettable Trains and Train Journeys in Literature

In 1920s Nick's commuter train that runs between West Egg and New York passes through an industrial area Nick calls "Valley of Ashes". (Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Sylvia has to take a long train journey from London to the countryside where her cousin lives...she meets a stranger on the train, and gets attacked by a wolf. The 19th century train journey in Joan Aiken's classic book still sends shivers down my spine. (Wolves of the Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken)

Hercule Poirot starts his journey from Istanbul to London travelling on Orient Express when murders start to take place in the luxury train compartments. (Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie)

"The Hogwarts Express" is the name of the train that makes a run between London, King's Cross Station Platform3/4 and Hogsmeade Station." Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling)

A magical circus that travels in a train disguised as an ordinary Victorian coal train. (The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern)

A cargo train called "401", "a great gold beauty of a train"......that travels through the territories of the Solace Kingdom. (The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson)

"Capitol Trains travel at an average speed of 250 miles per hour...most of Panem citizens are not authorised to travel by train unless they are reaped for the Hunger Games. (The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins)

"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see. " (The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg)

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Books to Movies 2015

Some of the movies based on books that stood out for me.