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Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Book vs Movie

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Last year me and Sophie hosted the Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children read-along for Halloween. We both absolutely loved the book and was excited to read it ahead of the movie release. The movie stars the likes of Asa Butterfield, Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green. It was released late September 2016 and was a box office smash hit. With the release of the DVD in a few days, i have pulled together some of my thoughts on the movie and books.

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Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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Halloween happened almost a week ago, so that means that the Halloween read-along is officially over! What’s even sadder is the fact that October is now officially over! Onwards and upwards to Christmas though! For our 2015 Halloween read-along we decided that Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children would be quite fitting.

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Halloween Read-Along Day 7

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It’s officially the last day of the Halloween read-along tomorrow! That means I’ve got left just a mere twenty-four hours to finish Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children! Am I going to do it? To be honest I’m not entirely sure. I’ve had a lot of Uni work in the last week and a lot of other things going on that I’ve not had much time to read! I need a full afternoon free so I can just lay in my bed and get my head stuck in the book! But I will definitely do my best to get it finished up before tomorrow night!

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Halloween Read-Along Day 5

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Over the last few days I’ve not had that much productive time to read. Hopefully this is going to change in the next few days, and I will definitely get it done for the deadline day! Because of this, not much has changed in the story since I last wrote a post a few days ago – but that doesn’t mean that I’m not enjoying what is happening at the moment.

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