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Q3 - Small Screen, Big Screen, and Streaming In-Between
Participants
Aubrey: 4/6
Brittany: 6/16
Carmen: 4/4 - Complete!
Catka: 5/5 - Complete!
Cindy III: 0/7
Clare: 5/6
Crystal: 2/2 - Complete!
Kristin: 1/2
Lindsay: 3/3- Complete!
Lois: 0/1
Lynn (msg 6): 4/6
Lynn (msg 38): 4/6
Megan: 5/5- Complete!
Newly: 0/12
Sarah: 32/32 - Complete!
Sarahkat: 8/8 - Complete!
Satin: 1/7
Sunny: 4/4- Complete!
Suzanne: 0/10
TerryJane: 6/6- Complete!
I'm in for five!1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - completed book July 2019, watched adaptation September 2019
2. The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie - completed book July 2019, watched adaptation July 2019
3. Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott - completed August 2019, watched adaptation September 2019
4. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou - completed September 2019, watched documentary The Inventor September 2019
5. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook - completed September 2019, watched adaptation September 2019
5/5 - challenge completed!
I'm in for four.It's been around 30 or so years since I last read Sherlock Holmes, so I've decided to tackle both of these:
I'll be watching The Sherlock Episodes: A Study in Pink and The Hounds of Baskerville
I end up reading P.D. James once a year and so I'll add another to this year:
And will be watching the 1984 television miniseries starring Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh. It's been a few years since I saw this one.
Finally, I'll read a couple of Morse books:
This one is on my TBR list:
And I read this one last year and won't mind reading it again:
I will be watching the episodes from the Morse series starring John Thaw. I've not seen either episode and am looking forward to watching them.
4/4
SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCREEN AND STREAMING IN-BETWEENDuration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
4 of 6 as of September 1! :)
One more than I originally thought I would complete!
I started out with the first 3 and then added #4-#6 due to other challenges, etc., and am calling it quits on this one as of September 28.
1) I was planning to read The Silver Linings Playbook and watch the movie.
✔️2) The Handmaid's Tale and watch an episode of the Hulu adaptation. Read September 27--5/5 stars.
The book proved to be a much better read than I expected, however, the Hulu adaptation (I watched Season 1, Episode 1.) reminded me why I don't have TV in my house. Ugh. It was almost painful. I would much rather be reading...
3) A Dog's Way Home and watch the movie
I LOVE Cameron's writing!
✔️4) Wonder Read July 21--5/5 stars
Watched the movie July 21--5/5 stars. I really liked the movie adaptation. It seemed to follow the book very well.
✔️5) A Raisin in the Sun Read August 11--5/5 stars
Watched the movie August 11--5/5 stars!
Absolutely a literary masterpiece and the movie! Sidney Poitier! Also a masterpiece!
✔️6) Flowers for Algernon Read September 1--5/5 stars
Watched the movie September 1--3/5 stars. I'm really disappointed that they didn't follow the book better. This movie adaptation felt more like a cartoon and I'm sooooo glad I read the book first!
Welcome Sunny and Lynn!I'm trying for 4 separate books/shows.
The Flash (11 episodes) + 1 Flash comic
Gotham (9 episodes) + 5 Batman comics
11/22/63 (at least 1 episode) + the book
TBD- Possibly Outlander + Drums of Autumn or another comic/show combo
Can you tell I have some catching-up with my shows to do? :)
I'm in for 3 from theseMe Before You
Pretty Little Liars
Queen Sugar
Orange Is the New Black
The Killing
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
✅Like Water for Chocolate and watched 1992 movie
✅Paper Towns and watched 2015 movie
✅Never Let Me Go and watched 2010 movie
Hola!Sign me in for 3, please.
PROGRESS: 4/4
✔1. Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
✔2 -3. The Magician's Nephew & The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis *
✔4. Los gozos y las sombras by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
* I intended to read the whole series, but I only read books #1 & #2
Welcome Kristin, Lindsay, and Carmen! Happy reading/watching
Added the books and what I'll be watching to post #5. Happy reading/watching everyone!
6/16 completed1. Bridget Jones's Diary finished 9/11/2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243155/...
2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter finished 8/20/2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/... watched 8//2019
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks finished 7/4/2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5686132/... watched 7/4/2019
4. Clue finished 7/23/2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/... watched 7/23/2019
5. You finished 9/9/2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7335184/...
6. Kristy's Great Idea finished 9/11/2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112435/...
2/21: Murder on the Orient Express: Watched the 1974 movie version
2: The Haunting of Hill House: Watched the 1999 movie version
I'm not much of a TV viewer, but I'll go for 6 on this challenge. Books and shows/movies TBD.Progress: 6/6 -- COMPLETE
Read and watched
✅ 📺 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
2019 TV mini-series
6 episodes
✅ 📺 Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
2001 TV mini-series
10 episodes
✅ 🎬 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
2014 movie
✅ 🎬 Cold Mountain
2003 movie
✅ 📹 The Last Lecture
2007 video
✅ 📺 The Canterville Ghost 1996 TV movie
I’ve started rereading A Song of Ice and Fire, so I’ll see how much of that I can get through without throwing something at the TV screen and screaming, “Book Jaime would never do that!” (And then I’ll go back to reading fanfic to mend my broken shipper heart.)
Lois wrote: "I’ve started rereading A Song of Ice and Fire, so I’ll see how much of that I can get through without throwing something at the TV screen and screaming, “Book Jaime would never do that!” (And then ..."Haha
I'll try for 3 books with 3 adaptations. I am unsure of the book choices. I gotta check out my netflix/hulu subscriptions.1. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - READ 7/28/19
1. Good Omens episodes 1-6 (Prime 2019) - WATCHED 8/12/19
2. To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia - READ 7/30/19
2. Kill the Irishman (film 2011) - WATCHED 7/29/19
3.
3.
Read: 2/3
Watched: 2/3
update to message #13 1/16 complete
I finished reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and just started watching the movie.
I didn’t know there was a movie for Henrietta!
Lynn wrote: "I didn’t know there was a movie for Henrietta!"It's an HBO movie. You can rent it on amazon prime though!
Hmmm. Don’t do HBO and definitely do NOT do Amazon! Oh, well, I loved the book enough I think that will do! 😀
Update to message #10PROGRESS: 1/3
I've just read my first book for this challenge, now I'm looking forward to watching the tv series.
Much fun! (I hope...)
Carmen wrote: "Update to message #10PROGRESS: 1/3
I've just read my first book for this challenge, now I'm looking forward to watching the tv series.
Much fun! (I hope...)
"Partners in Crime was one of my favorite Christie books. Which series are you watching? I loved the 1983 series. Haven't seen the other series.
Sunny wrote:"Partners in Crime was one of my favorite Christie books. Which series are you watching? I loved the 1983 series. Haven't seen the other series..."I loved the 1983 series too.
This time I'm watching the BBC 2015 version.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02v...
Can I join in for 3, just need to decide what I'm going to read and watch4/3 Read but only watched 1/3 but will watch now it's not so sunny
1 Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald 19/7/2019
2 The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
3 Tales of the City 7/9/2019
4 Like Water for Chocolate 10/9/2019
I am going to go for 16 books and the 16 adaptation.BOOKS READ 16/16
ADAPTATIONS WATCHED 16/16
CHALLENGE COMPLETED
Books
1)Dirty Dancing(8/7/19)
2)Burlesque: The Motion Picture(8/7/19)
3)Big Little Lies(9/7/19)
4)Carrie Pilby(10/7/19)
5)Hollywood Wives(13/7/19)
6)Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat(15/7/19)
7)The Princess Diaries(13/8/19)
8)The Last Jedi - A Junior Novel(21/8/2019)
9)The Young Victoria(24/8/2019)
10)(Lego Batman)Junior Novel(28/8/2019)
11)The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel(30/8/2019)
12)Their Finest(4/9/2019)
13)We Bought A Zoo(5/9/2019)
14)Marie Antoinette: The Journey(6/9/2019)
15)Pudsey the Dog: The Movie(6/9/2019)
16)The Secret Service - Kingsman(7/9/2019)
Adaptations
1)Dirty Dancing(American 1987 movie)
2)Burlesque(American 2010 movie)
3)Big Little Lies(American 2017-2019 TV Series)(13 episodes over 2 series)
4)Carrie Pilby(American 2016 movie)
5)Hollywood Wives(American 1985 TV Miniseries)(3 episodes)
6)Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat(UK 1999 direct-to-video movie)
7)Princess Diaries(American 2001 movie)
8)Star Wars: The Last Jedi(American 2017 movie)
9)The Young Victoria(British-American 2009 movie)
10)The Lego Batman Movie(American 2017 movie)
11)The Handmaid's Tale(American 2017-2019 TV Series)(10 episode which is one series)
12)Their Finest(British 2016 movie)
13)We Bought A Zoo(American 2011 movie)
14)Marie Antoinette(French, American and Japanese 2006 movie)
15)Pudsey the Dog: The Movie(British 2014 movie)
16)Kingsman: The Secret Service(British-American 2014 movie)
I am in for 7SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCREEN AND STREAMING IN-BETWEEN
Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
For this challenge, we are tackling our TBR piles and TBW lists collectively. Choose a book or books that have been adapted for either a television series, movie, limited series, or streaming feature. Read the book and then watch the adaptation. Tell us how many book/adaptation combos you will be reading/watching for this challenge. For series with multiple seasons, you do not have to watch all the seasons (but feel free to binge away) - just let us know how many episodes you intend to watch for the challenge. Happy reading and viewing!
1. Old Yeller - Fred Gipson 7.17
2. Pet Sematary 7.26 -
Good omens
The golden compass
fahrenheit 451
2019 Reading ChallengeQ3 - Small screen, Big screen, and Streaming In-Between
Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
Progress: 10 out of 10
For this challenge, we are tackling our TBR piles and TBW lists collectively. Choose a book or books that have been adapted for either a television series, movie, limited series, or streaming feature. Read the book and then watch the adaptation. Tell us how many book/adaptation combos you will be reading/watching for this challenge. For series with multiple seasons, you do not have to watch all the seasons (but feel free to binge away) - just let us know how many episodes you intend to watch for the challenge. Happy reading and viewing!
BOOKS READ 10/10
ADAPTATIONS WATCHED 0/10
1) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - ***** - 7/11/2019 - 213 Pages
2) Coraline by P. Craig Russell - ***** - 7/16/2019 - 192 Pages
3) The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Renée Nault - ***** - 7/17/2019 - 240 Pages
4) The Mighty Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Alien Nation by Margaret Stohl - ***** - 9/4/2019 - 112 Pages
5) The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Three by Michael Dante DiMartino - ***** - 9/4/2019 - 76 Pages
6) Disney Manga: Descendants The Rotten to the Core Trilogy Volume 1 by Jason Muell - ***** - 9/19/2019 - 80 Pages
7) Disney Manga: Descendants - The Rotten to the Core Trilogy Book 2 by Jason Muell - **** - 9/20/2019 - 80 Pages
8) Disney Manga: Descendants - The Rotten to the Core Trilogy Book 3 by Jason Muell - **** - 9/20/2019 - 80 Pages
9) Jim Henson's The Power of the Dark Crystal, Vol. 2 by Simon Spurrier - ***** - 9/22/2019 - 112 Pages
10) Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy by Brian K. Vaughan - ***** - 9/22/2019 - 144 Pages
Hi, sign me up for 5 please. 1/5 Princess Bride - movie waaay better than the book
2/5 War and Peace - book better than this Soviet adaptation
3/5 Good Omens - watched the show first then re-read the book (for the third time). It seems to be getting better with each re-reading and I really enjoyed the visual side the TV show added to it.
4/5 The Portrait of a Lady - listened to the audiobook and then watched the movie with Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich. Book was better, movie was too shallow and strangely sexual
4,5/5 - I watched a movie called The Adjustment Bureau, which had quite an interesting premise (the "Fate" ruling human lives and the possibility/impossibility to break it), so I looked up whether it was based on a book. It wasn't, but it was based by a short story called The Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick. They only took the idea from the story and set it to the present time and added the chase for the perfect love to it. Still an interesting watch/read.
5/5: Whisky Galore - read the book and watched the movie, both are ok, if you like whisky and/or Scotland, even better.
Message 28 UpdatedBook: 4/16
Adaptions; 4/16
This is a really weird challenge to keep track of since it's not just a quantifiable number of books.I'm at 3/8
I've finished a couple of Batman comics (but counting only as 1)
A Flash comic (1)
and 11 Flash episodes (1)
Here's the link to how I'm tracking the challenge in my corner: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Update to message #132/16 completed
It wasn't part of my original plan, but I read Clue and am watching the movie tonight.
update msg 33:2/5 War and Peace - book better than this Soviet adaptation
the movie (in several parts) was over-dramatic, pathetic, artsy to the point of boredom, the characters were too flat, some of the moderated, like the Bolkonski Father, who was much more despotic and crazy in the book. It put too much focus on Pierre Bezuchov, probably because he was played by the director himself, who also participated on the script. There was this weird scene where he wanders around the battleground of Borodino in a white frock coat and top hat looking much hapless and useless like the Discworld first tourist Twoflower.
Just completed my first book for this challenge - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I'm incredibly impressed that the author could portray a unique character like Charlie, who today would possibly be diagnosed on the spectrum, and still portray the quintessential high school experience. It's also further proof that high school doesn't really change, just the fashion and technology. I loved the writing. My only criticism was that I wanted to know to whom Charlie was writing. Definitely worth reading! 4.5 starsWaiting on DVD to arrive from Netflix (yes, I still have an old school subscription and it's not available streaming:)).
.5/5
Megan wrote: "Just completed my first book for this challenge - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I'm incredibly impressed that the author could portray a unique character like Cha..."I'd like to hear what you think of the movie. I read the book last year and quite liked it, so I watched the movie too, but was dissapointed by it.
1/7 finishedPersepolis by Marjane satrapi
Update message #191. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - READ 7/28/19
1. Good Omens episodes 1-6 (Prime 2019)
2. To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia - READ 7/30/19
2. Kill the Irishman (film 2011) - WATCHED 7/29/19
3.
3.
Read: 2/3
Watched: 1/3
Aubrey wrote: "Update message #191. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - READ 7/28/19
1. Good Omens episodes 1-6 (Prime 2019).."
How did you like the TV series? I just watched it and missed something and am not sure exactly what it was (except for (view spoiler)) so I am rereading the book now. Other than that, I quite liked it, it was good to get visuals to what I imagined only.
i actually havent watched the series yet. Ny husband and i need to finish OITNB first then we'll watch good omens. I absolutely LOVED the book. Gaimen and Pratchett are the best satirists.
Just completed another book - The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie. She's such a master! I love her writing, and I love that she brought in a little something different in this book. Definitely worth reading! 4.5 starsI'll try to watch the streaming miniseries this weekend:)
1/5
Just watched the miniseries The ABC Murders with John Malkovich and Rupert Grant (a.k.a. Ron Weasley). That was a mind bender when I realized who he was all grown-up! I'm not sure Ms. Christie would have appreciated the adaptation. They took the entire story into an incredibly dark place, which is saying something for a murder mystery. Rather odd, but it is John Malkovich playing Hercule Poirot. I'd give it 3.5 stars. Book was way better!1.5/5
We made it through month 1 of this challenge! Keep up the reading and watching. I'm at a total of 5/8 (3 books complete, 2 adaptations watched)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
3/5 Good Omens - watched the show first then re-read the book (for the third time). It seems to be getting better with each re-reading and I really enjoyed the visual side the TV show added to it.My review here
Edited Msg #51/4
I finished the Sherlock Holmes book a few weeks back, but didn't get around to watching the corresponding episodes of Sherlock, ( A Study In Pink and The Hounds of Baskerville), until this week ( Mon). I had plenty of time in my schedule; I just couldn't find the mood for watching.
I enjoyed reading the stories again after all these years; and feel I have a better appreciation of them as an adult than I did when I was a teenager. In fact, I probably skimmed over (view spoiler) of A Study In Scarlet when I was younger. Not really caring all that much about that much of a detailed background and finding it a bit boring, stuck in the middle of a book/story featuring Sherlock Holmes. I'm still not sure that it couldn't have been handled differently, making the over-all story better, but Doyle handled it the way he saw fit; and one can not deny that he is a good story teller.
I had no problems with the changing around of the plots to fit the modern day version of things in the adaptations for Sherlock. I found them to be amusing in some instances and thought they were very well done.
Update to message #6. Now I have 5 listed total and just read and watched A Raisin in the Sun, so I have completed 1 1/2 of 5! Need to watch Wonder next! :)
Update message #19Read 2/3
Watched 2/3
Good Omens is now one of my favorite books and TV series. Crowley is one of my favorite characters of all time. And Crowley/Aziraphale are my favorite couple of all time, whether they are in love or simply complete each other, like Yin and Yang. I cannot stop thinking about it!
Update to message #133/16
I finished reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter and will hopefully get around to watching and episode of Dexter tomorrow.
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2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Like Water for Chocolate (other topics)Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (other topics)
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life (other topics)
Tales of the City (other topics)
Burlesque: The Motion Picture (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Brian K. Vaughan (other topics)Michael Dante DiMartino (other topics)
Margaret Stohl (other topics)
Jason Muell (other topics)
Simon Spurrier (other topics)
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Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
For this challenge, we are tackling our TBR piles and TBW lists collectively. Choose a book or books that have been adapted for either a television series, movie, limited series, or streaming feature. Read the book and then watch the adaptation. Tell us how many book/adaptation combos you will be reading/watching for this challenge. For series with multiple seasons, you do not have to watch all the seasons (but feel free to binge away) - just let us know how many episodes you intend to watch for the challenge. Happy reading and viewing!
Thanks to SarahKat for the idea behind this challenge and volunteering to lead!