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Well, we've now made it through 3 weeks of Sweet Relish Sunday - welcome to week 4, the last week! This week, I will be talking about 5 Necessities for Family Movie Night . I've chosen two family-friendly DVDs/Blu-rays along with a Blu-ray player and some sweet and salty treats that are essentials for any movie night. Here are my picks: ParaNorman   Blu-ray/DVD combo pack . This movie was one of the best kids' movies I saw in 2012, and the title character shares his name with my dad, which was also kind of fun. Be aware that it may be a little scary for younger children, though. Wreck-It Ralph on DVD . Another one of my favorite 2012 kids' movies, and a great choice for the younger children or if you think your child will be too scared to see ParaNorman.  Or, if you have time, you could even watch them both! LG Blu-ray player . This is the same Blu-ray player that I own, and although it has ethernet and not WiFi, it's a great choice for those who want to us...

Week 3 of Sweet Relish Sunday brings us to "10 Must-See Book-to-Movie Adaptations." As you might know, I also have a book blog,  Books I Think You Should Read , and I'm an avid reader. When I hear that a favorite book of mine is being turned into a movie, I'm both excited and also a bit apprehensive, because sometimes the essence of a book can be lost in translation when it airs on the big screen. With these ten movies, however, the movie is just as good as, if not better than, the book version, and they are shining examples of what a good book-to-movie adaptation can be. The ten movies I chose are: Sarah's Key  (2010). Still one of the saddest Holocaust movies I've ever seen; I don't often cry during movies but I challenge anyone to see this movie and not cry. I actually liked the book less than the movie, but only because parts of it were very different. Holes  (2003). The book was intriguing and the movie was just as good, with Shia LaBeouf as ...

So now that we know what Sweet Relish is, and what you can use it for, let's jump in to week two of four of this series. As you may or may not know, I am not a fan of scary movies. Suspenseful movies, I can handle - movies like The Shining , which brings the crazy but doesn't have as much gore - but "slice and dice" movies are not my thing. Using Sweet Relish, I made a list called "Scary movies for people afraid of scary movies," and I chose six movies that popped into my mind for the list. They are: The Shining.  Both the book and movie were fantastic, and Jack Nicholson is utterly creepy as a writer who goes insane while living as a hotel caretaker with his family in a remote location. I first watched it when I was 16, at a birthday party, and may have had few nightmares; however, I return back to the movie because it's so good. The Sixth Sense . Maybe you got the twist ending, but I didn't, until the very end. And the girl ghost hiding ...

Sweet Relish  is a website where you can keep a list of things you "relish" - aka, things you like - and make lists based on any categories or themes that you like. Imagine that every time you clicked the "like" button on Facebook, you could categorize whatever you "liked" into a list with a name of your choosing - that's what Sweet Relish is, in a nutshell. For the purposes of these posts, I made my lists movie and entertainment-oriented, but I could also see Sweet Relish being used for clothing or event ideas. The site seems similar to Pinterest to me (although Pinterest is pretty much the one  social media site I haven't signed up for), but it's rather fun "relishing" items and then seeing your completed list after. The BIG difference is that anything you see on the site that people have "relished" comes from another site - i.e., I mostly used Amazon for these lists - so you can click and buy that item if you so choose,...