Movies opening today include Let Me In,starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee, based on the bestselling Swedish novel Lat den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In) by John Ajvide Lindqvist. St. Martin’s Griffin has the movie tie-in edition, titled Let Me In (ISBN 978-0312656492). PW’s review said, “Swedish author Lindqvist’s debut, a horror novel, offers few twists that won’t already be familiar to readers of modern vampire fiction…. it’s the gory set pieces that propel the predictable plot.”
Also opening today is The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake. The movie covers similar ground to The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich (Anchor, 978-0307740984).
The documentary Freakonomics, based on the book of the same name (Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0060731335), opens today.
Norah O’Donnell, coauthor of Baby Love: Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler (St. Martin’s Griffin, ISBN 978-0312621926) is on Real Time with Bill Maher.
J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame is on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The paperback box set of all the books in the series is available from Arthur A. Levine Books; ISBN 978-0545162074.
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