Books That Should be TV Shows / Books That Are TV Shows

Continuing the “media empire” idea a bit, two complementary posts:

Ten books that should be TV shows, from Chachic, and

Ten favorite TV shows based on books, from Maureen.

I thought it was kind of fun how I happened to encounter these two posts right after each other.

Chachic lists ten books / series, of which I have read and loved eight, have one on my TBR pile, and (ahem) wrote one. Of these, the one I’d most like to see made into a TV series (besides mine, obviously) is … hard to choose. Maybe Andrea Host’s Touchstone trilogy? I don’t know! Maybe MWT’s series starting with The Thief? Really very difficult to pick just one off this list.

I haven’t seen many of the shows Maureen picks, but “North and South” was spectacularly good. Also, I’m having trouble imagining anybody boiling Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell down into a few hours in any form. Huh. That’s certainly an ambitious thing to attempt.