Showing posts with label Steven Gould. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Gould. Show all posts

Friday, April 2, 2010

Mini Giveaway has concluded. The Winner of JUMPER: GRIFFIN'S STORY is...

Thanks guys for stopping by, becoming followers and entering this mini book giveaway. Check back this weekend for an awesome giveaway of a most lovely book. Now moving along to the businesss at hand, the winner of this interesting little book is...

Dr. Bill(William L.) Smith

Please email me your address so the book can be sent to you. If the winner doesn't respond in 48 hrs, a runner up will be chosen.

Winner was selected by RANDOM.ORG

Toodles!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I've Never Heard of this Before: Author Adapts Novel to be Consistent with Movie: A Book Giveaway: JUMPER-GRIFFIN'S STORY

Have you seen the movie Jumper? It's the one that stars Hayden Christiansen from the Star Wars films. In Jumper he has the ability to teleport himself from one location to the other at will, hence the name Jumper.
The film was based on the novel JUMPER by Steven Gould. We know that when a novel goes from the page to the screen, it is adapted and changed to fit that venue. In the case of the novel I'm giving away, just the opposite occurred. The author wrote another novel, based on the adapted version of his original book to the screen. I've never heard of such a thing, have you? If you have, please leave a comment telling me which book and film.


The blurb from the book, gives greater detail of the story:

The first time it happened, Griffin O'Conner was only five years old; he'd jumped from the steps of the Martyrs Memorial in Oxford, in front of a busload of torists. The next time, his family had to leave the United Kingdom forever.
                                                                                                                         

I held up four fingers and ticked them off one by one. "Never jump where someone can see me. Never jump near home. Never jump to or from the same place twice. And never, never, ever jump unless I must-or unless you or Mum tell me to."