Oscar season is upon us and with the end of the writer’s strike imminent, it appears as if the show will go on.  Most of us would enjoy seeing the nominated films, but with movie prices what they are and the DVDs always being out, this can prove difficult.  So why not head to your local library and check out the books instead.   A large number of this year’s nominated films have been adapted from books.  And isn’t the book usually better than the movie anyways…

            There Will Be Blood based on Oil! by Upton Sinclair

            Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (920 M122K)

            No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)

            Atonement by Ian McEwan (Fiction)

            Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (YA Graphic)

            Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Fiction)

            3:10 to Yuma: and other stories by Elmore Leonard

            Away From Her (“The Bear Came Over the Mountain”) by Alice Munro

            The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (YA Pullman)

            Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile (958.1045 G858)

            The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron
            Hansen

            The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (920 B337)

 
In addition to these books, there are countless other books and nominated DVDs from Oscar’s past that are available for check-out.  If there are any books that are not available at the North Shore Library, they can always be requested.