Nominations - Random Choice

[Jennifer]

I suggest The Good Liar

[Zeljka]

Jennifer wrote: "I suggest The Good Liar"

Sounds good to me :)

[Lore]

Mexican Gothic

[Lore]

It is beautiful, I'm currently starting it and already hooked!

[Barbara]

Two I would put on are LA Confidential and The Silence of the Lambs, mostly because both were long, complex books and whoever wrote the screenplays did a very good job of distilling them without missing the point.

[Jasmine]

Death in Venice
The source material of the Cannes 25th Anniversary Special Award-winning film adaptation by Visconti.

[Zeljka]

Lorena wrote: "Mexican Gothic"

This would be great, but the series is still in development? Maybe we should wait for its release. I'll certainly add it to our to-read pile :)

[Zeljka]

Barbara wrote: "Two I would put on are LA Confidential and The Silence of the Lambs..."

Both great choices, thanks :)

[Zeljka]

Jasmine wrote: "Death in Venice
The source material of the Cannes 25th Anniversary Special Award-winning film adaptation by Visconti."

I'd rather like to add this to our quick reads - at once too - it is a kind of novella, not very long, perfect for that category. Totally forgot it, thanks for mentioning it :)

[Zeljka]

Alright, the poll is up:

Book of December 2021

[Zeljka]

And the winner is The Silence of the Lambs

[Zeljka]

April 2022

Here we are again with random choice books :) You can nominate any book you want; it only has to have an adaptation of some sort, a movie or a TV doc, anything that can be watched after reading the book.

[Jennifer]

I nominate Before the Fact which was the basis for Hitchcock's "Suspicion"

[Zeljka]

Jennifer wrote: "I nominate Before the Fact which was the basis for Hitchcock's "Suspicion""

Oh that was a good movie! I'd like to watch that again. A while ago I entertained the idea of making a Hitchcock project, all his books and movies :) But this will do for now ;)

[Zeljka]

I've just seen a trailer for The Man Who Fell to Earth, coming next month to TV. Looks very interesting. There was a Bowie movie we can watch too. What do you think?

[Zeljka]

It's Before the Fact then :)

[Zeljka]

December 2022

Still contemplating, but the choice of this December may be the last one for a while, meaning I'll probably put the club in a sort of hiatus. It wont' be so bad, as nothing really happens here, and members (me included) may afterwards focus their efforts on the books on our bookshelf that are still waiting to be read, until we figure out what to do next.

However, I'd still like to put one more book to our bookshelf, to end this year properly. The Man Who Invented Christmas might be nice fit. Freely offer your choices below.

[Lore]

That sounds good. I've been really out of it, reading mostly random crap already loaded in my Kindle. :/ What have you been up to?

[Zeljka]

Lorena wrote: "That sounds good. I've been really out of it, reading mostly random crap already loaded in my Kindle. :/ What have you been up to?"

I was working too much this year, so I managed to read only few books, and bigger portion of those were audiobooks I listened to during my commute to work! At the moment I am trying hard to finish Tolkien's biography and letters. When I started the project I didn't realize I'll be so busy, but I do not regret it - I will finish it eventually :)

I hope you won't mind if we don't do any new books next year. Of course, if you or someone else would like to read something new, those will be gladly put on our bookshelf. I just won't insist on new polls and nominations.

[Lore]

Sounds absolutely fair. If we have a pick-up in activity again, we can always resume polling and stuff. I just enrolled in a course too, so my reading activity this summer will likely be all marketing related xD

[Zeljka]

Lorena wrote: "Sounds absolutely fair. If we have a pick-up in activity again, we can always resume polling and stuff. I just enrolled in a course too, so my reading activity this summer will likely be all market..."

Thanks, I appreciate your support! Good luck with the course, it'll surely be interesting and challenging :)

[Lore]

Thanks for all your hard work Zeljka! Hope you can spare more time for reading next year. I'll certainly try to trim my list of dubious-quality fantasy books and get some interesting novels (that have been made into tv!) in there. :)

[Demarion mari]

my fave book is dork diaries by Rachel Renee Russel

[Zeljka]

Demarion wrote: "my fave book is dork diaries by Rachel Renee Russel"

I have read somewhere the series is in the development, so we might get it on our bookshelf someday :)

[Demarion mari]

yess