5 Reasons to Watch The Book of Life

Today is All Souls' Day, the Day of the Dead, the perfect day for a quickie review of the movie The Book of Life.

5 Reasons to Watch The Book of Life

• Gorgeous Animation: Seriously, the vibrant colors and the unique, 3-D animation style, with a marionette-like character design, make this a beautiful film.
• Music: One of the characters does a cover of Creep by Radiohead.  Enough said.
• Humor: For a film that deals with weighty subjects such as true love, living up to parental expectations, and death, The Book of Life still managed to keep me laughing.  
• Message: Like the folktales The Book of Life draws from, this movie has important messages for viewers, namely to follow your heart.
• Unique:  Unlike so many films, The Book of Life dares to be different.  We have diversity of characters, an unusual animation style, and unorthodox subject matter for an animated film. 

Overall, this was a beautiful, entertaining film that was worth going to the cinema to see on the big screen.  I highly recommend for fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.

Have you seen The Book of Life?

Teaser Tuesdays: The Dead Path

"Haunted," he whispered.
 The word hung in the air like despair in a dying man's bedroom.  It was still hanging, as if it were itself a ghost, when Nicholas sucked it back in with a gasp.

 p.g 14, The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin.

The Dead Path is the chilling debut novel of author Stephen M. Irwin.  Visit later today for my review of The Dead Path and tomorrow for my interview of Stephen M. Irwin and international giveaway for one hardcover copy of The Dead Path!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!