Archive for October 5th, 2010

Chick Flick Tuesday highlights the best chick flicks in the movie world as well as bringing you news on upcoming chick flick releases as well as letting you all know about which chick lit books are being made into chick flick movies!

This week I chose Sleepless in Seattle, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, as our Chick Flick Tuesday. It’s one of those movies that even when I see the poster image I’m immediately swept back into the movie. A young boy struggling to help his father move past his own mother’s death by doing what only a 9/10 year old boy could do, calls a talk radio show looking for a new mom. Through a random series of events his dad, played by Tom Hanks, and Annie, played by Meg Ryan, end up on top of the empire state building in New York City. With references to one of the greatest films ever, An Affair to Remember, and including a hit song by Celine Dion, “When I Fall In Love”, this is a Chick Flick not to miss!

“When Sam’s (Tom Hanks) son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls into a talk radio program looking for a new mother, Sam ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love. Thousands of miles away, Annie (Meg Ryan) hears the program and immediately falls in love with Sam, despite the fact that she has never met him and that she is engaged to humdrum Walter (Bill Pullman). Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of letters from available women equally touched by his phone call.”

The paperback of Jodi Picoult’s latest book House Rules is out in November and has had a cover change from the original. I like the new cover (right) a lot but the hardback cover portrays the story more with the multi-coloured blanket!

Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger’s. He is locked in his own world – aware of the world outside, and wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone else, but doesn’t know how.

When his tutor is found dead, all the hallmark behaviours of Jacob’s syndrome – not looking someone in the eye, odd movements, inappropriate actions – start looking a lot like guilt to the police. And Jacob’s mother must ask herself the hardest question in the world: is her child capable of murder?

Publishers Sphere have acquired some great names for their chick lit catalogue as of late. We already knew that Carole Matthews and Eleanor Moran would be making the move, and it seems others are following suit.

Lucy-Anne Holmes and Fiona Walker are also both going to be making the move to Sphere for their new books, and it’ll be interesting to see how that affects their books, and especially their book covers! Congrats to Sphere on their new acquisitions!

Source: http://thebookseller.com/news/130014-holmes-moves-from-macmillan-to-little-brown.html and Btween The Sheets on Twitter