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Q3 - Books on the Little Screen
Q3: BOOKS ON THE LITTLE SCREENParticipants
Jess (m. 32): 1/3*
Lois (m. 28): 2/5
Margie (m. 8): 7/10
Satin (m. 20): 1/3
Suzanne (m. 48): 4/10
Completed
🤸🏽♀️ Crystal (m. 18): 7/3
🤸🏽♀️ Lindsay (m. 7): 3/3
🤸🏽♀️ Mie (msg 3): 9/8
🤸🏽♀️TerryJane (m. 24): 10/10
🤸🏽♀️SarahKat (m. 5): 3/3
🤸🏽♀️Lynn (m. 25): 3/3
🤸🏽♀️Carmen (m. 10): 8/8
🤸🏽♀️Rachael (m. 19): 7/7
🤸🏽♀️oshizu (m. 4): 13/12 books (10/10 tasks)
🤸🏽♀️Kelly (m. 16): 3/3
🤸🏽♀️Sarah (m. 43): 1/1
🤸🏽♀️Lynn (m. 76): 5/5
(Updated on 30 September through msg 121)
I’m in for 8, please 😊 9/8 - COMPLETE ✔️✅ 1. Small-screen series - Dragonfly in Amber
✅ 2. Made-for-the-small-screen movie - Ordeal by Innocence
3. Book about the TV/cable industry
✅ 4. Book about TV/cable impact on society - Wildcard
✅ 5. Featuring televised broadcasts of any kind - Becoming
✅ 6. Written by a small-screen celebrity - Hvor taler du flot dansk!
✅ 7. Wish would be a TV series - Fallen Heir
✅ 8. Main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist - Offer 2117
✅ 9. Small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated) - Sad Cypress
✅ 10. Topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show - Left Neglected
Q3: BOOKS ON THE LITTLE SCREENI will try for twelve books.
Progress: 13/12 books (10/10 tasks)
Read:
📗1. A book adapted to a small-screen series:
✔️Field of Blood (Denise Mina) (2011, BBC One)
✔️A Man Lay Dead
📗2. A book adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie:
✔️The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan)
📗3. A book about the TV/cable industry: ✔️Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television (Joy Press)
📗4. A book about TV/cable's impact on society.
✔️I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Emily Nussbaum)
📗5. A book featuring televised broadcasts of any kind.
✔️Tropic of Orange (Karen Tei Yamashita)
📗6. A book by a small-screen celebrity: ✔️Year of Yes (Shonda Rhimes)
📗7. A book that you wish would be a TV series:
✔️Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
✔️What Angels Fear (C. S. Harris)
📗8. A book with a protagonist in the TV industry or journalism:
✔️A Brief History of Seven Killings (Marlon James)
✔️The Night Visitor (Lucy Atkins)*The Night Visitor (Lucy Atkins) (maybe)
📗9. A book-to-small-screen adaptation nominated for a television award:
✔️Under the Midnight Sun (Keigo Higashino, Japan TV Academy Awards)
📗10. A book on a topic featured on a home improvement reality show:
✔️Shooting Gallery (Hailey Lind)
(Need a book for prompt 10? Check the listopia Cozy Mysteries: Home Renovation, Repair, Decoration, and Design)
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Hi oshizu!Sign me up for 3 for now please. One per month.
Possibilities are listed here:
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Welcome to the challenge, Mie and SarahKat!
Sign me up for 3 please from these possibilities Heaven
Orange Is the New Black
The Killing
Pretty Little Liars
A Stolen Life
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series
2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
✅5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
The Power: WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
✅6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity
The Book of Beasts John Barrowman
✅7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series
Broken Homes
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated)
10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
Please add me for 10 prompts.Progress: 9/10
√1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series Pride and Prejudice
√2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
√3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
√4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
√5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
√6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
√7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series Cookies and Clairvoyance (Magical Bakery Mystery #8) - get on it Hallmark!
√8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist The Cutaway
9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated) Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Thanks, Carmen!)
√10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show - If Walls Could Talk
Welcome, Lindsay and Margie!Hmmmm, seeing everyone's books makes me want to switch some of mine!
Hola!Sign me in for
PROGRESS: 8/8
✔1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series: Partners in Crime
✔2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie: And Then There Were None
✔3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry & 4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society: Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
✔6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
✔7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series: The Moor (DCI Ryan Mysteries)
✔8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist: I've Got You Under My Skin
✔9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated): Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Awards and nominations)
✔10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show: A High-End Finish
oshizu wrote: "Welcome, Lindsay and Margie!Hmmmm, seeing everyone's books makes me want to switch some of mine!"
Right? All books subject to change and readerly whim. Who knows what you'll stumble across over three months? I'm always surprised by how many unexpected books I notice once I'm keyed-in to challenge prompts.
Carmen wrote: "Hola!Sign me in for 7, please.
PROGRESS: 0/7
1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series: Partners in Crime
2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-sma..."
Welcome to the challenge, Carmen!
See? Only 10 possible prompts. Since you're pledging 7 prompts/books, you'll no doubt finish during the first week, LOL!
Just kidding (half).
Margie wrote: "oshizu wrote: "Welcome, Lindsay and Margie!Hmmmm, seeing everyone's books makes me want to switch some of mine!"
Right? All books subject to change and readerly whim. Who knows what you'll stumble across over three months? I'm always surprised by how many unexpected books I notice once I'm keyed-in to challenge prompts."
@Margie
Confession: I play fast and loose with my challenge prompts.
I have been known to read a book that fits both Prompts A and B and assigning it to Prompt A. But I might move it Prompt B later if I find/read another book for Prompt A.
In my mind, all's fair in love and reading challenges if I'm reading books that appropriately fit the prompts when the challenge is over.
Also, I'll be checking out your Magical Bakery Mystery series for prompt 7!
oshizu wrote: "Welcome to the challenge, Carmen!See? Only 9 possible prompts. Since you're pledging 7 prompts/books, you'll no doubt finish during the first week, LOL!
Just kidding (half)...."
As we say in my country: Coge fama y échate a dormir (roughly translated: win a good reputation and sleep at your ease.) 😆
I'm looking for books that fit the prompts I left, right now I have no idea. Suggestions are accepted.
EDIT: I've just seen the list you linked. Very interesting!
Thanks oshizu, you're simply the best!
Update to message #10Ok, I found one book more, lol.
I'll go for 8.
P.D.: I cheated and combined prompts 3 & 4, because I think the book I chose fits both like a glove.
Welcome to the challenge, Kelly!So glad you'll be joining us!
7/34. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
I'm going to read 7 for this challenge. Good Omens (2 books), Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve), His Dark Materials, Bodies and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - all of which have been adapted into a small screen series. Plus, Troilus and Cressida was adapted into a small-screen movie in 1981.1. Good Omens finished 2 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Bodies finished 11 July, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book finished 15 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
4. Troilus and Cressida finished 18 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Codename Villanelle finished 29 July, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. His Dark Materials finished 25 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
7. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell finished 18 September, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
COMPLETED: 7/7
I’ll be reading Taken At the Flood
The 4:50 from Paddington
Poiroit investigates
All by Agatha Christie
They were made into a small series on BBC a couple of years ago.
Rachael (with two A's) and Satin, welcome to this challenge!
Public Service Announcement: Your Challenge GoalPlease note that this challenge's prompts may be prompted.
This means, in the case of this particular challenge, your challenge goal may be set to either the number of tasks completed or the number of books read.
I'm not much of a TV watcher, but between my daughters' and husband's viewing habits, IMDB, other challengers' choices, and listopia, I should be able to complete this challenge, especially since I can repeat tasks. I'll go for 10. I'll be sure to include Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, once I come off the library's hold list. The rest, I'll choose as I go.
BOOKS ON THE LITTLE SCREEN - Quarterly Challenge
Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
Progress: 10/10 -- COMPLETE 8/4/19
For this quarterly challenge, we have some prompts for you about books and TV/cable shows. You can repeat prompts for this challenge but each book can only count once.
1.
2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10. 📺 📺 📺 📺 📺 1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series
📺 📺 📺 📺 2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity
7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
📺 9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated)
10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
Oh, the irony! I haven't had TV in my house for 20 years. Don't miss it. So this may be a REAL challenge for me. I'll say I'll read 3 for now. If I get brave and have enough time, I'll expand that... :)You can repeat prompts for this challenge but each book can only count once.
BOOKS ON THE LITTLE SCREEN
Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
3/3 as of August 21
Made this goal, but hopefully I'll get time to read at least 2 more from this listing before September 30! :)
Up it to 5! :)
5/5 as of September 30
DONE! Completed with 5! :)
✔️1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
Catch-22
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV
✔️5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
Little Fires Everywhere
6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
✔️7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series
Them Bones
✔️8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated)
A Study in Scarlet
✔️10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
A High-End Finish
Lynn wrote: "Oh, the irony! I haven't had TV in my house for 20 years. Don't miss it. So this may be a REAL challenge for me. I'll say I'll read 3 for now. If I get brave and have enough time, I'll expand that...."@Lynn
Welcome to the challenge!
Haha, I'm with you and TerryJane!
I haven't watched English-language TV or cable shows for at least the past decade. I mostly hear about the popular TV/cable offerings from friends. :D
I’m in for 5!1. Read a book that’s been adapted to a small-screen series—A Clash of Kings
3. Read a book about the TV/cable Industry—The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11
4. Read a book about the TV/cable impact on society—Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11
5. Read a book that features TV broadcasts of any kind—Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series
7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series—The Maggody Militia
Hello Lois! Welcome to the challenge!How fabulous that we are all choosing different books!
oshizu, I've changed my goal from 8 to 10 prompts (completist awareness...)
Margie wrote: "oshizu, I've changed my goal from 8 to 10 prompts (completist awareness...)"Yay!
After your fabulous feats during the Globetrotter Challenge, 10 books in 3 months is not asking too much ot you! 😉
1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity
7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
The Perfume of the Lady in Black by Gaston Leroux 02/07/19
9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated)
10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
oshizu wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Oh, the irony! I haven't had TV in my house for 20 years. Don't miss it. So this may be a REAL challenge for me. I'll say I'll read 3 for now. If I get brave and have enough time, I'll..."I find it makes for a much more pleasant, calm, and relaxing home environment. Music, books, and felines! That's about all I need...oh, and my husband, of course! ;)
1/3 completed!!!Taken at the flood was so much fun, and the plot twist made it so interesting!!!
Jess wrote: "1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
4. Read a book about..."
Welcome to the challenge, Jess!
Let me know please when you decide on your challenge goal.
I've temporarily given you a goal of 3.
@Satin
Gratz on finishing your first book for first book for this challenge. Yay!
Update to msg 4: 1/128. In Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings, one of the narrators is a music journalist from the Rolling Stone magazine.
Progress: 1/12
Rachael wrote: "Updated message 19: 1/5"Gratz on finishing your first book already! 👍
Lynn wrote: "5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind??? Hopefully one of the books I'll read for a book club/book discussion group during this time."
@Lynn
In retrospect, I wish I had phrased this prompt more clearly.
The book simply needs to include one or more scenes where people are watching TV. Quite common, really.
Update to message #10PROGRESS: 1/8
Tommy & Tuppence, maybe not very popular compared to Poirot or Miss Marple, are my favorite of Agatha Christie's characters/detectives.
Hilarious!
I was originally going to go for all 10 books but then life got in the way and I was having trouble find the 10 other books so I have only gone for 1 book.1/1(COMPLETED)
1.
Carmen wrote: "Update to message #10PROGRESS: 1/8
Tommy & Tuppence, maybe not very popular compared to Poirot or Miss Marple, are my favorite of Agatha Christie's characters..."
@Carmen
I'm glad you've found some fun reads!
Sarah wrote: "I am going to try all 10 0/10
1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series
2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
3. Read a book about the TV/ca..."
@Sarah
Welcome to the challenge!
I'm excited to see what you'll be reading to fit the 10 tasks!
oshizu wrote: "Lynn wrote: "5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind??? Hopefully one of the books I'll read for a book club/book discussion group during this time."
@Lynn
In retrospect, I ..."
Thanks for clarifying!
2019 Reading ChallengeQ3 - Books on the Little Screen
Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
Progress: 6 out of 10
For this quarterly challenge, we have some prompts for you about books and TV/cable shows.
1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series:
Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy by Brian K. Vaughan - ***** - 9/22/2019 - 144 Pages
2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
Disney Manga: Descendants The Rotten to the Core Trilogy Volume 1 by Jason Muell - ***** - 9/19/2019 - 80 Pages
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
- Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press
4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
- I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
Year One by Nora Roberts - ***** - 8/6/2019 - 419 Pages
6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too! by Chelsea Handler - ***** - 10/28/2019 - 256 Pages
7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series
Lothaire by Kresley Cole - ***** - 9/17/2019 - 468 Pages
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
My First Five Husbands... And the Ones Who Got Away by Rue McClanahan - *** - 10/27/2019 - 352 Pages
9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated)
- Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
- A High-End Finish (Fixer-Upper Mystery #1) by Kate Carlisle
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Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019
For this quarterly challenge, we have some prompts for you about books and TV/cable shows.
1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series
2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie
3. Read a book about the TV/cable industry
4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society
5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind
6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity
7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist
9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated)
10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show
You can repeat prompts for this challenge but each book can only count once.
This challenge was suggested by oshizu who will be leading it