JAN '19: Read a Book that is Being Adapted into a Movie or TV Show in 2019

[Despina]

Wendy wrote: "Finished Can You Keep a Secret? today after having the paperback on my shelf for literally YEARS and it was super cute and now I'm looking forward to the movie."

While I would have loved a british film, I can't wait for the adaptation too. It's one of the best by Kinsella along with The Undomestic Goddess.

[Despina]

Finally finished The Woman in the Window and I must say that up to a point I was enjoying it but then it kinda fell apart for me. And that's why when the big twist came up I was not that surprised, I just wanted it to end. It was a good book of its genre all in all though. I think for me personally, Sometimes I Lie upped the ante so much as far as page-turners go, that other mystery books fall below by definition.

Can't wait to see what they'll do with the film, nevertheless. Amy Adams is amazing.

[Lucie]

Despina wrote: "Wendy wrote: "Finished Can You Keep a Secret? today after having the paperback on my shelf for literally YEARS and it was super cute and now I'm looking forward to the movie."

While I would have l..."

Love a bit of Kinsella cheese. I remember when I first read Can You Keep a Secret? - I was 12, my dad's a bookseller and one of his friends used to show up at our house with boxes of books he'd scouted out at local boot-sales etc. I always got my pick of them, and I remember LOVING that box as it was full of YA chick-lit and I was 'of an age' for it ;) Ended up having to do a book-report on it at school because it was what I was reading that day! Will def see the film. I also recommend Twenties Girl if you enjoyed this, and the early Shopaholic books are funny stuff :)

[Wendy]

Despina wrote: "While I would have loved a british film, I can't wait for the adaptation too. It's one of the best by Kinsella along with The Undomestic Goddess."

Whyyyyyy do they do this? I want all of the British films! Another of my fav Brit lit movies that they Americanized was "Asking for Trouble" (which the movie The Wedding Date was based on).

Lucie wrote: "I also recommend Twenties Girl if you enjoyed this, and the early Shopaholic books are funny stuff :)

I loved Twenties Girl! I read most of the Shopaholic books (when they added the sister was when they lost me) but her other standalone books - I've Got Your Number and Wedding Night - are also super QT.

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So I finished The Devil All The Time for this challenge. It reminded me a lot of Joe Lansdale, who I love, but if he'd never read To Kill A Mockingbird as a child and learnt about empathy and humanity so really only the horror and gore and southern gothic was left. I can't say I liked it in the end even though it had obvious qualities.

[Julie]

Made it through Little Women this week for the first time. In grade school I had somehow managed to read the British version which is only Part 1 in most versions. So after seeing the 90s movie I realized I may have missed some things. But it took me a few decades to get around to the rest.

Can I just say how well it holds up as a book? I really loved it and now I'm hyped for the productions being made.

[Despina]

Wendy wrote: Whyyyyyy do they do this? I want all of the British films! Another of my fav Brit lit movies that they Americanized was "Asking for Trouble" (which the movie The Wedding Date was based on).

I don't know why they keep doing this and it bugs me so much because aside from the setting it changes the whole vibe of each book. At least The Wedding Date took place in the UK and had a lot of the cast being british.
The Shopaholic film was nowhere near the the book but the book series dragged so long (I gave up around book 5) that I'm not that interested anymore in a better adaptation.

Lucie wrote: I also recommend Twenties Girl if you enjoyed this, and the early Shopaholic books are funny stuff :)

I agree it was pretty good and I generally enjoy Kinsella's writing a lot. I still haven't read The Wedding Night and Surprise Me but I'm curious about her new one. I agree on the Shopaholic books, they were good up to a point. Especially the first 3.

[Lea]

Julie wrote: "Made it through Little Women this week for the first time. In grade school I had somehow managed to read the British version which is only Part 1 in most versions. So after seeing the 9..."

what. there are two versions? now that I think about it, I read it in Portuguese and it was a very small book. then I saw the Puffin in Bloom edition and it is HUGE looking. I was like, where did all these pages come from? maybe I read a translation of this small version too and didn't know it. HUH

[Undine]

I read Death Comes at the End, which was okay. I’m mostly thankful that it being set 4000 years ago made it less likely I’d run into the random antisemitism that seems oblig in Brit lit!

And I listened to the audiobook for The Underground Railroad, which was great.

[Lea]

Hello everyone, if you still haven't chosen a book for January, more adaptations have been announced:

Dracula
A Christmas Carol
This Is Going To Hurt
Noughts + Crosses
Dublin Murders
Elizabeth Is Missing
Tom Jones
His Dark Materials
The Luminaries
The War Of The Worlds

Source:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Waterstone...

[Kim]

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH at some of these i hope they dont suck.

[Katie]

I read the first Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book last night so I think I'll count that for now then see what else I end up reading just because I'm not sure how much of a direct adaptation it'll be.

[Lea]

I tried to read Catch-22 (which is going to be a Hulu series with George Clooney) and I haaaated it omg. Couldn't get far with it bc the writing style is so annoying