I only have the Bugs Life art book, but i mainly use it to put my laptop on when I use it in bed.
I’ve got all of them. Monsters, Inc. twice, including. a first edition Art of Toy Story from '95 found new for $40 two years back
I want The Art of Monsters Inc, but it’s so expensive! 
Amazon has it new for $21.18
I found that at a book store years ago. I regret not getting it.
Do you live outside the US? Because it says $48 for me, but for the last two years or so it was definitely $100+ everywhere I looked.
SI live in the US. Check under hardcover, instead of bargain book.
I recently got a preview of a book called “Ultra Violet,” (yeah, that is why I initially checked it out XD…), about a girl who wakes up in a psych ward thinking she’s loosing her mind. It starts with her not being able to remember how she got there, and being asked a slew of questions by the orderlies. Eventually, she starts to remember and she thinks she killed someone, and she’s left wondering how this all happened. And this girl (the main character) has Synesthesia (a mixing of the senses, like seeing sound or tasting color); this makes for an extreemly inreesting read, because it’s not just the conventional discrioptions. It’s writtien in the first person, so the girl tells you how she seeing/hears/feels things. And it’s really cool. I really wanna buy this book and finish it.
That is pretty interesting! Last summer I made it my goal to read “Gone With The Wind”, and I did. Now this year I want my summer goal to be that I read at least 5 books. I really want to increase my vocabulary. Any suggestions?
To Kill a Mockingbird is a favorite of mine. I’m reading A Princess of Mars right now, myself.
I don’t know what kind of books you generally like, MissCarrera, but if you’re looking for lots of unusual words, you probably can’t go wrong with some 19th-century writers like Dickens, Victor Hugo, or the Brontes. After all, they were paid by the word!
I’m currently reading The Pixar Touch. My hometown library had it, but my school library didn’t, so I had to wait until the summer to read it. It’s excellent- there are so many cool things about the company’s history that I never knew. And now I know even more useless trivia to bother people with when I watch Pixar movies. Like that two artists on Nemo climbed inside a dead whale stranded on a beach to get Marlin and Dory’s POV for that scene in the film.
Pixar Touch is good. To Infinity and Beyond! is too.
Thanks for the ideas!
They really did that, Now Has Guilt?! My library has The Pixar Touch… and now I know I’m going to get it next time I go! I really’d like to get some Pixar art books. I actually got Toy Story: The Art and Making of the Animated Film from my library the other day and I can’t wait to read it! The book is huge… barely fit in my bookbag! Currently, I’m reading a great series called The Bugman. It’s written by Tim Downs and it’s about a quirky and cool forensic entomologist and the exciting mysteries he accidently gets involved in. I must say that they might gross out a few people (just look up what a forensic entomologist does and you’ll understand), but I am kind of obsessed with them right now!
I am about one hundred pages into The Fellowship of the Ring, and I am thrilled to finally be tackling this amazing story.
I recently finished a book called “The Luxe” and the script of the play “Never Been Kissed”. 
I used to re-read The Lord of the Rings every time new film came out.
I was thinking to do it again as The Hobbit will hit theatres this year.
Anyone ever read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer? I read it a while ago for school because we had to do a book-related research paper. It’s about a mentally gifted nine year old boy who experiences existential problems and a loss of innocence following his father’s death in the September 11 attacks. The book switches between that perspective and a series of letters written by his grandfather expressing the sorrow and regret after he lost his first love, family, and friends in the Dresden bombings as a teen.
Don’t think it’s just any angsty sob-story using the same old tactics to get you to cry. It’s actually very light, humorous, and witty. At the same time, it will make you cry and leave you with a very heavy feeling by the time you are done. I highly recommend this book if you are looking for a read that will make you laugh, sob, and ponder your existence at the same time. It’s one of my favorites!
Didn’t read the book, but a film was released last year.
Yeah, I saw the film and didn’t really like it. I thought it was pretentious and overly ambitious, which were some slight problems with the original book, but at least it wasn’t as pronounced in the book. I felt the film was trying to be too deep and serious and only focused on how tragic it is for a young boy to lose his father rather than how the book went more into losing, loving, and living in general. The movie was flat-out depressing while the book as a whole was uplifting and moving. Basically, the film was Oscar bait.