{"id":977,"date":"2009-02-20T07:42:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2010-06-13T00:44:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:44:17","slug":"bookworms-carnival-literature-and-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"Bookworms Carnival &#8211; Literature and Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookwormscarnival.wordpress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-980\" title=\"bookworms1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bookworms1.jpg\" alt=\"bookworms1\" width=\"166\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bookworms1.jpg 166w, http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bookworms1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica at <a href=\"http:\/\/thebluestockings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bluestocking Society<\/a> is hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/thebluestockings.com\/2009\/02\/bookworms-carnival-edition-23\/\" target=\"_blank\">23rd edition of the Bookworm Carnival<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The topic for this edition of the carnival is Literature and Film.\u00c2\u00a0 Jessica put forth a question to everyone who stops by her site &#8211; the question and my answer are below:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #005580;\"><strong>Do you prefer to read the book first or see the movie first?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #005580;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I definitely prefer to read the book first.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been some great adaptations but I&#8217;d prefer to imagine how characters look in my head to seeing the actors from the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 In the case of <em>The Accidental Tourist<\/em> it didn&#8217;t matter.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw the movie first (it was one of the first times I&#8217;d seen a Cardigan Welsh Corgi) but liked both the movie and the book.\u00c2\u00a0 The casting was well done and there were some characters I was able to imagine differently.\u00c2\u00a0 The acting was great but the performances weren&#8217;t so iconic that I could still imagine different faces\/bodies to go with the characters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Jessica at The Bluestocking Society is hosting the 23rd edition of the Bookworm Carnival.\u00c2\u00a0 The topic for this edition of the carnival is Literature and Film.\u00c2\u00a0 Jessica put forth a question to everyone who stops by her site &#8211; the question and my answer are below: Do you prefer to read the book first&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=977\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookworms Carnival &#8211; Literature and Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-bookworms-carnival","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}