Book Tidbit 5: Of book titles, gaming, and wild things

Why a lot of Book Tidbits? Obviously because I haven't been able to finish a book since, well, the last time I reviewed a book.:) I am about to finish Jasper Fforde's Fourth Bear, though. More on that when I finally finish it.

Anyways, here are the interesting AND fearsome things I found lately:

• Bookseller magazine has awarded this year's prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year to the book entitled The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais. Check out the other contenders and some previous winners for the Oddest Book Title in this article.
• Do you play computer games? Well, would you count the narrative in the game as a literary genre? Here's a "he-said-he-said" take on the issue courtesy of the Guardian blog. My take as a one-time addict to Final Fantasy X and X-2: I loved both of them for the story. (Well, admittedly, X-2 was sort of flaky.)
• Finally, the fearsome thing I found...the trailer of Where the Wild Things Are

...let me describe why I found this fearsome - because I love the book so much. It was the first book my son received as a gift from his godmother, Anina, and it was the first book I kept on reading to him and to his sister after. The simplicity of the book is its power and its charm--a boy who gets mad at his mother because he is misunderstood by her, retreats to his own world of wild things, but eventually returns home because home is where he is loved despite everything.

I am so afraid that the movie will destroy the original idea, which is what I think drew people to it in the first place. It's certainly what drew me in.

Perhaps another reason for my fear is that the Wild Things look like overgrown muppets. Against the screen's background, they don't seem to belong, unlike Sendak's Wild Things on the page of the book.

Then again, I could be jumping the gun. I certainly hope so.