Index• The Author : Emily Giffin

– Biography– Books– Awards / Cinema Adaptations

• The Book – Information– Story– Characters– Recomendation

• The Film– Director– Surroundings– Trailer

The Author´s Biography

Name: Emily GiffinBorn in: Baltimore, Maryland (1972)

She is: An american author of several novels categorized as chick lit (comedy novel especiallyfor womans)

After law school she moved to Manhattan and after living there for a few years she decided to move to London and began writing full-time.

Her first novel was rejected by eight publishers, so she began a new novel (Rolling the Dice) which became Something Borrowed, a bestseller book.

She married in 2002 and a year after she gave birth to identical twin boys, Edward and George. Harriet, her daughter, was born on 2007.

The Author´s Curiosities

1. She is obsesed with typewriters and fonts.2.She loves winter, and January is her best month of the year3.She may have changed her identical twins identity, but she´llnever know the truth4.Emily takes an insame number of photographs every day, she says there is not a day her camera does not see action.5. She is very noise sensitive and can´t stand the sound of radioor television.6.Once a month she dreams she is Jennifer Aniston´s best friend.7.Her favourite colours are orange and pink.8.Her first kiss was with a French exchange named Sebastian.9.She was supposed to meet a friend at the fountain between the World Trade Center

towers on 9/11 at 9 a.m. But that day she moved to London in the first international flight.

The Author´s Books2004: Something Borrowed

2006: Something Blue (2nd part of Something Borrowed)

2007: Baby Proof

2009: Love the One you´re with

2010: Heart of the Matter

2012: Where we belong

Cinema Adaptations

1) Something Borrowed

The first Emily Giffin´s novel which has been adapted for the cinema.The film aired on 2011

Curiosities about the book and the film: Emily Giffin appears in the film in a scene appearing in a bench next to the main characters (actors) and she is with a book in her hands << Something Blue >>

The Book

The novel centers arround a woman, Rachel White, who turns 30 and is still single. She and her best friend Darcy have known each other since childhood. After a night of drinking on Rachel´s thritieth birthday, something goes on between her and Darcy´s boyfriend. After this turns into an affair and Rachel explores what friendship is suposed to be and also true love.

The Characters

Rachel White : Main Character Darcy Rhone : Main Character´s best friend

Ethan : Rachel´s confident and best friendDex Thaler : Darcy´s boyfriend

Recomendation I recomend this novel especially to the girls as its a chick lit book, because

it´s about the values of friendship and especially as its a comedy it has very funny parts. I think girls who like love story´s would like to read this book because of that.

Also, I love the way the author describes every moment as if it was important and then you realice it wasn´t that much.

The Film Director Director: Luke Greenfield

Greenfield wanted to be a film director since the age of ten after he was given a super 8 camera. He made film throughout the years and attended to the School of Cinematic Arts.

When he was 13 his mother wrote a letter to Steven Spielberg, with it she attached Luke´s films and asked Spielberg “Does my son have what it takes to make it?” Steven wrote back and encouraged Luke to go to film school.

The FilmThe movie happens in Manhattan and in The Hamptons.

The Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzfBl8mfpck

The End

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