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Rebecca Berto presents The best advice I've learned on mastering theme in storytelling posted at Novel Girl, saying, «Theme in novels is easily overlooked.

Rebecca Berto presents The best advice I've learned on mastering three - dimensional characters (people) posted at Novel Girl, saying, «Too many manuscripts are read, even those published, that are described as having «flat, one - dimensional characters».

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Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

Dr. Jennifer Natalya Fink is a professor of English at Georgetown University, the author of two novels (V and BURN, both from Suspect Thoughts Press), and, most importantly, the mother of a gorgeous and hilarious baby girl.

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Her (Harron) torpid adaptation of Rachel Klein's novel about female sexual desire, jealousy, death wishes, and vampires at a girls» boarding school defeats Harron's talent for exploring darkness on the edge of kinkiness.

An adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's American Civil War novel, the movie is set at a girls» school in Virginia, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

The political fable of a young girl drifting between emotional times at home and a scary forest wonderland amidst the backdrop of Spanish fascism and war, it crosses the visual fancies of comic books, video games and graphic novels, combining them in a work stirred up from the depths of his soul.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

A mixed bag at best, Ava DuVernay («Selma») helms this adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» which hammers home its (still) powerful message of individuality over conformity while combining it with a potent «girls rule» empowerment message.

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN Universal Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Tate Taylor Written by: Erin Cressida Wilson adapting Paula Hawkins's novel Cast: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 10/3/16 Opens: October 7, 2016

But now they're about to combine in a sexy, punk acid trip of a movie in the form of an adaptation of Neil Gaiman «s short story and graphic novel How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

The new trailer for Girl on a Train is great, meeting all expectations for fans of the novel, at least so far.

Film Adaption: His Girl Friday A brief look at the adaptation of the novel The Front Page into this classic screwball comedy.

Elle Fanning, an actress often at the center of films about young people (such as Super 8, The Boxtrolls, and the upcoming How To Talk To Girls At Parties), will now employ her bright - eyed stare and bulbous tears in service of adapting a bestselling YA noveat the center of films about young people (such as Super 8, The Boxtrolls, and the upcoming How To Talk To Girls At Parties), will now employ her bright - eyed stare and bulbous tears in service of adapting a bestselling YA noveAt Parties), will now employ her bright - eyed stare and bulbous tears in service of adapting a bestselling YA novel.

, you know he is the perfect choice to tackle Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel «Gone Girl», He is exceptional at capturing these dark and mysterious stories.

Based on the best - selling novel by Gayle Forman, If I Stay tells the story of Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young girl who is deciding whether to pursue her musical dreams as a cellist at Juilliard or follow a...

Stuck in the middle of the film is a flight to a tropical island (typical of the Flynn pics, if not the pivotal denouement in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty) and the hero's involvement with a local girl (a leftover from Polynesian epics such as Hurricane, Bird of Paradise, and prior Dorothy Lamour romances like Aloma of the South Seas)-- surgical additions that may have been present in the original novel, but feel tacked on in a film that runs at a fast globe - trotting pace in its 98 min.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie BY MURIEL SPARK Set in the 1930s, this novel is about a free - spirited teacher at a girl's school in Scotland who ignores the conventional curriculum, bringing her into conflict with the school's leadership.

Teen - age romance novels may send young girls into swoons, but that's not all they do, according to Maia Pank Mertz, associate professor of humanities education at Ohio State University.

The series is about a high school girl named Yukina who has the reputation of being an ice queen at school, but is also the author of a very popular cell phone novel.

After all, a good number of his 14 books are set (or at least partially set) in France, including his three most famous novels, known as the «French trilogy»: The Girl at the Lion d'Or; Birdsong; and Charlotte Gray, which in 2001, was made into a movie starring Cate Blanchette.

Titles like Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman and Paula Hawkins» novel The Girl on the Train have huge waiting lists and this has prompted people to take a gander at new material.

Amy Reed's YA novel The Nowhere Girls takes a crack at breaking the silence behind this epidemic.

(Gone Girl starts on a couple's fifth - year anniversary, which sets in motion the mystery at the heart of the novel.

The Girl on the Train doesn't work for me as a title at all because there's nothing «girlish» about the novel at all, and is actually misleading because the book is very «adult.»

YA / General Interest: Sharply etched, poignant episodes coalesce smoothly into a novel that evokes a young girl's rebellion against her mother and at times painful, at times joy - filled, passage through childhood and adolescence.

The novel tells the story of Flip, an American girl away at boarding school in Switzerland, and her unexpected love for Paul, a French boy.

And, with all due respect to the readers of vampire novels, I really don't want to have to work through pages and pages of stuff about excitable girls swooning at men with fangs, to see if there's any science fiction.

is the question the reader asks about the strange, wild little girl at the center of Eowyn Ivey's debut novel, The Snow Child.

Jo Knowles is the author of the young adult novels Lessons from a Dead Girl, Jumping Off Swings, Pearl, and See You At Harry's.

Yesterday some BookPage staffers were reviewing summer middle grade novels, and I couldn't help but pause at the cover of Kathi Appelt's Keeper — and think of Katherine's cover déjà vu series over at A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore.

Central to the novel are the stories of Even Grade, a 28 - year - old black man abandoned by his mother at birth; Valuable Korner, a 15 - year - old white girl whose family history holds a trunkful of damning secrets; and Joody Two Sun, an enigmatic obeah woman who sees into the hearts and minds of the townsfolk from her riverside camp on the outskirts of town.

My novel was deemed too dark for YA at the big houses (what's so dark about a 17 - year - old girl masquerading as a prostitute to con rich men?)

If that isn't enough from page one of Sara Novic's debut novel, Girl at War, perhaps sentences from page two will prick your writer self:

A young adult novel about a girl at the center of a fury of lies and gossip, Jennifer Mathieu's debut The Truth About Alice has been getting rave reviews from both critics and fans.

This novel is terrifically entertaining, so delicious in its personalities, settings, and language that you might not notice at first how nourishing it is - packed with positive thinking and sterling character traits... Girls are likely to appreciate Penelope as a role model, a Victorian Girl Scout leading them on.

I was expecting Cum Laude, the «grown - up» novel by the author of the Gossip Girl series, to be a guilty pleasure of the variety you hold on your lap at the coffee shop, lest anyone observe you enjoying such lowbrow fare.All the sweeter, then, to discover that Cum Laude is a smart and compassionate portrait of one girl's first year in college, perfectly capturing the mix oGirl series, to be a guilty pleasure of the variety you hold on your lap at the coffee shop, lest anyone observe you enjoying such lowbrow fare.All the sweeter, then, to discover that Cum Laude is a smart and compassionate portrait of one girl's first year in college, perfectly capturing the mix ogirl's first year in college, perfectly capturing the mix of...

The theme of the novel is fairly straightforward: Ida, the girl with glass feet has lived vibrantly, and won't go down without a fight, while other characters such as Midas live as though they have glass feet and don't really live at all.

Historical writer extraordinaire Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring; Remarkable Creatures) continues to explore America's past in her new novel, At the Edge of the Orchard, which will be published on March 16.

Girl at War By Sara Novic Random House • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812986396 Novic's first novel — a gripping portrayal of one girl's experience of war in Croatia — was chosen by BookPage editors as one of the best books of 2Girl at War By Sara Novic Random House • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812986396 Novic's first novel — a gripping portrayal of one girl's experience of war in Croatia — was chosen by BookPage editors as one of the best books of 2girl's experience of war in Croatia — was chosen by BookPage editors as one of the best books of 2015.

Savill spent eight years working for the BBC and has first - hand experience as a reporter and aid worker in both countries, which lends resonance to a novel sure to appeal to fans of globally minded fiction like Girl at War and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

Women have been writing books like those ever since, but until Gone Girl, publishers tended to look askance at stand - alone crime novels and instead encourage their writers to develop series characters, which could be marketed more easily.

This masterfully illustrated graphic novel tells the story of Kim Cameron (Skim), who discovers Wicca, a powerful crush, and a growing feeling of isolation at her all - girls private school.

Fergus and his uncle find a girl's body buried in a peat bog at the start of this novel, told in parallel narratives, of two young people who sacrifice themselves for the greater good.

THE TARGET is an absorbing new contemporary suspense novel about a man and a woman thrown together into a diabolical conspiracy and the little girl at its center.

and join New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE, Paula McLain for a Girls Night Out at B&N Eastchester to celebrate her new novel LOVE AND RUIN.

Victoria Jamieson's first graphic novel, Roller Girl, is a welcome addition that at first may seem to be more niche than Telgemeier's work.

There's been an increase in the number of high - quality graphic novels aimed at tween - age girls since Raina Telgemeier proved to publishers that this audience was out there with her bestselling graphic novels Smile and Sisters.