Looking for Alaska: Comparing John Green’s Book Adaptations on TV vs. Movies

Movie adaptations are a book nerd’s favorite thing to complain about. While excitement ensues when the announcement comes (“Oh my gosh, they’re finally making XYZ into a movie!! I CAN’T WAIT.), dread quickly sets in as the release date crawls…

Who did it better? 2015 book-to-movie adaptions

Book versus movie adaptions are a serious deal for us literary fans – and so we’ve taken a look at some of the biggest page to screen adaptions of 2015, and judged which medium did it better. The Martian Truthfully, I’m not…

Movie Review: ‘Paper Towns’

There is an ideal image of happiness and success: suburban family, good job, outgoing personality, etc., etc. Our lives are formed and developed like a production line, with strict rules and schedules. We come out the other end an unremarkably…

‘Paper Towns’ Re-Read: Part Two

Welcome back to our re-read of Paper Towns by John Green. We’re less than one week from release day in theaters and starting to get excited! Did you miss Part One of the re-read? Check it out here. And now…

‘Paper Towns’ Re-Read: Part One

Welcome to The Young Folks! Today is the first recap of our re-read of Paper Towns by John Green. We’re getting ready for the movie release in just two weeks! This week we read the prologue and part one. These are…

‘Paper Towns’ Re-Read

Today is the first day of July, which means that we are just twenty-four days from the Paper Towns movie being released in theaters. Paper Towns is based on the book by John Green, and if you’re like me, you’re…

Really Great Songs Straight from the Trailers

Movie trailers. Sometimes bad movies have engaging trailers and sometimes good movies have boring trailers. Sometimes they make us cry, and sometimes they give away the best parts of the movie. They play before the Youtube videos we want to…