Kayla's Book to Movie Reviews

    Published in 1978 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin has to be one of my favorite book that I read in school. As an adult I have read it a couple times. It is a classic children's mystery book. In school we played along trying to figure out the riddle with the characters. This book is also the reason I learned to play chess. Not that anyone, if anyone, reads this cares. Anyway on to the book. So Turtle and her family move into Sunset Towers, an apartment complex with a restaurant in it. Sam Westing ends up dying and all of the people in apartment complex are invited to his will reading. No one really understands why they were all invited. But they all get a set of clues and they have to figure out the mystery. Turtle is determined to figure it all out. Little things happen that make people suspicious of eachother. The books builds a good back story and when the mystery is all solved you won't believe what it was all about.It is such a great mystery to play along with. I thin...

    Published in 1986 Forrest Gump By Winston Groom I thought was going to be a favorite of mine because I love the movies so much . I was kind of disappointed. Sure it had it's funny moments and it made you laugh out loud a couple of times. But things became so unbelievable that it just made the book go down hill from there. So let's start with how Forrest went to a different school at the start. He was in a school for special kids but eventually ended up in a regular school. He has a hard time with being just normal. So his momma sets him up on a date with Jenny. He takes her to a movie and in his idiotic way messes it up so it makes it like he was trying to molest her and take her top off. So he gets in trouble and has to see a judge. So he has to go to college or be drafted into the military. He does go to play college football and meets Bubba there. Forrest ends  up meeting Jenny again and they become a band. He ends up failing out so they draft him into the mi...

So I kind of have a love/hate relationship with Jennifer Weisberger. Sometimes I love her writing like in Goodnight Nobody and then I there are times like In Her Shoes where I just don't like her. I didn't really like this book. It was a bit boring. I guess a lot of things seemed essential but in the end really had nothing to do with anything. I know she was trying to set the stage of how evil the boss was and how the her minions should be worried about their true feelings getting back to her. I just felt like it was a waste of time. It became the same thing over and over again. I am going to read the next two books in the series and see how that goes. Andy wants to be a writer for The New York Post. She is called in to take a job at a magazine where she knows nothing. She becomes the junior assistant to the editor of  Runway magazine. She meets her boss once before starting her training and wonders what the big deal is. It isn't until Miranda is in the office that she r...