Q3 - Books on the Little Screen

[Mie]

Update msg 3: 5/8 ✅

[oshizu]

Suzanne wrote: "2019 Reading Challenge
Q3 - Books on the Little Screen
Duration: 1 July - 30 September 2019

Progress: 0 out of 10"

Welcome to the challenge, Suzanne!
Good for you, attempting all 10 prompts!

[oshizu]

@Mie
Wheeeee! You're already over halfway done!

@Rachael
Great progress!

[oshizu]

Update to msg 4

📗9. A book-to-small-screen adaptation nominated for a television award:
✔️Under the Midnight Sun (Keigo Higashino, 2006 Japan TV Academy Awards)
The serial TV adaptation won prizes for Best Drama, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. It's creepy, it's sad, it's unexpected, and it's a tearjerker.

📗10. A book on a topic featured on a home improvement reality show:
✔️Shooting Gallery (Hailey Lind)
Book 2 in An Art Lover's Mystery series, featuring a protagonist who runs her own faux-finishing business. (Faux finishing is demonstrated in Bob Vila's Home Again TV series...I googled!)

Progress: 3/12 books (3/10 tasks)

[oshizu]

Crystal wrote: "update msg 18: 3/3"

Aaaaannnnd, a big congrats to Crystal for being the first to finish this quarterly challenge! Yay!

[Rachael]

Updated message 19: I have increased my goal to 7 as I found a couple more books that fit this challenge. I have now read 3/7.

[oshizu]

Rachael wrote: "Updated message 19: I have increased my goal to 7 as I found a couple more books that fit this challenge. I have now read 3/7."

@Rachael
Great news that several more books you'd planned to read will fit into this challenge's prompts!

[oshizu]

Update to msg 4

By happy coincidence, I discovered that a book I was reading for other challenges also happened to have been made into a TV film.

2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie:
✔️The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Michael Pollan)

Progress: 4/12 books (4/10 tasks)

[Rachael]

Updated message 19: 4/7

[Mie]

Update msg 3: 6/8 ✅

[Lindsay]

Update msg 7

2/3

[Margie]

Update message 8: 4/10 prompts

2. Adapted for small screen movie: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Oprah produced this movie in 2017. The book had important history about a medical research discovery critical to treatment today and changes to the patient consent process since Henrietta Lacks was a patient. However, disclosing every skeleton in this family's closet felt exploitative in a different way. Mixed feelings.

5. Features televised broadcasts: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - The protagonist ends up on TV broadcasts that are watched world-wide. This was a fun, escapist book.

6. Written by a small-screen celebrity: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy - For the Chris Hayes/MSNBC fans. Published in 2012, this thought-provoking read about the merits/limits of meritocracy in America felt prescient.

8. Main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist: The Cutaway - an enjoyable mystery-thriller featuring a protagonist who is a TV news producer in DC. It seems impossible given it's ubiquity in our society, but I'm not sure I've read another book set in the TV industry.

[oshizu]

Margie wrote: "Update message 8: 4/10 prompts

2. Adapted for small screen movie: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Oprah produced this movie in 2017. The book had important history about a me..."

@Margie
Great progress and fascinating choice of reads!

[Lindsay]

Update msg 7

Featuring televised broadcasts The Power: WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

3/3 and typically none of the books I planned. Yet.

[oshizu]

Lindsay wrote: "Update msg 7

Featuring televised broadcasts The Power: WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

3/3 and typically none of the books I planned. Yet."
@Lindsay
Woot, gratz on finishing, Lindsay!

[Mie]

Update msg 4: 7/8 ✅

[Kelly]

update message #16
1/3 completed

Task 1: 1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series

[oshizu]

@Mie
I can't believe how close you already are to finishing this challenge!

@Kelly
Gratz on finishing your first of three books for this challenge. You're right on track!

[oshizu]

Update to msg #4

1. A book adapted to a small-screen series:
✔️Field of Blood (Denise Mina) (2011, BBC One)

This crime fiction novel, in which the protagonist is a young Irish woman working at a daily newspaper, is set in 1980s Glasgow with flashbacks to the 1960s.
It was made into a two-episode TV series by BBC One and I tried watching the trailer but couldn't understand the dialogue at all, haha. I would need closed captions or subtitles to watch it.
Oh yeah, this novel marks my first taste of the "tartan noir" genre.

Progress: 5/12 books

[oshizu]

Update to msg #4

5. Features televised broadcasts:
Tropic of Orange (Karen Tei Yamashita)
I loved this quirky 1997 mashup of postmodernism, multicultural dystopia, and magical realism. One of the characters is a TV producer so we read scenes of her shooting, editing, and watching.

Progress: 6/12 books (6/10 tasks)

[Rachael]

Updated message 19: 5/7

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

1/3

8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist - Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

This book would also work for prompts 4 and 5 if anyone needs ideas.

[Mie]

Update msg 3: 8/8 - COMPLETE ✅

[oshizu]

Gratz to Mie on completing the challenge in its fifth week!
Now the rest of us plodders shall miss your smiling avatar, Mie!

Hats off to everyone who's made progress with this challenge so far!

[Mie]

Thanks, oshizu 😄
Also for the cartwheel smiley - don’t think I have done one of those in over 30 years 😂

[oshizu]

Mie wrote: "Thanks, oshizu 😄
Also for the cartwheel smiley - don’t think I have done one of those in over 30 years 😂"

Mie, I'm glad that cartwheel emoji made you smile.
Lol, I can't even remember the last time I did a cartwheel. But I do virtual cartwheels for all the fabulous challenge participants!
🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️🤸🏽‍♀️

[oshizu]

Lynn wrote: "I am late to the party so just put me down for 3 please:

0/3

1. Read a book that's been adapted to a small-screen series


2. Read a book that's been adapte..."

Welcome to the challenge, Lynn!
This is a chill challenge with only a few prompts.
Looks like you've already found some fun books for it!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated message 24, I missed getting added to the participant list, but I finished. Completed 10/10 as of 8/4/19. Thanks!

[oshizu]

TerryJane wrote: "Updated message 24, I missed getting added to the participant list, but I finished. Completed 10/10 as of 8/4/19. Thanks!"

TerryJane
A thousand apologies! My distracted brain managed to add you to my spreadsheet without ever adding you to the list of participants. I'm so sorry! *shuffles in embarrassment

Congratulations on finishing this quarterly challenge so quickly and thank you for joining in.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

No problem, @oshizu. I'm sure it's a lot to handle, and I appreciate your running the challenge. Thanks again! 🧡📚🧡

[oshizu]

TerryJane wrote: "No problem, @oshizu. I'm sure it's a lot to handle, and I appreciate your running the challenge. Thanks again! 🧡📚🧡"

Bless you, TerryJane, and your big heart!

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

I finished! 3/3

5. Read a book that features televised broadcasts of any kind- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series: - Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
8. Read a book in which the main character works in the TV industry or is a journalist - Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

[Carmen]

Updated message #10

✔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)

I just loved it, I feel like watching this marvelous TV series again

[oshizu]

SarahKat wrote: "I finished! 3/3"

Gratz on finishing, SarahKat! 🤸🏽‍♀️

[oshizu]

Carmen wrote: "Updated message #10

✔9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated): [book:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Me..."

Carmen, it sounds like you're really enjoying your book choices this month!

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

✔7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series: The Moor (DCI Ryan Mysteries)

I just had to read the next book in the series, I coudn't stand the intrigue.
I highly recommend this series to everyone, especially to mystery lovers.

[Carmen]

oshizu wrote: Carmen, it sounds like you're really enjoying your book choices this month!..."
Definitely, yes!
Right now I'm reading Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and I'm enjoying it very much too.
And I have some mysteries by Agatha Christie on the back burner begging for some attention 🤣
Hope you're enjoying your books too!

[Carmen]

Updated to message #10

✔6. Read a book written by a small-screen celebrity: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg: actress, screenwriter, director and comedian, is widely known for her more than 500 television appearances.
A standing ovation to her! 👏👏👏

PROGRESS: 4/8

[Kelly]

update to message 16
2/3 books
Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie Flowers for Algernon

[Carmen]

✔2. Read a book that's been adapted into a made-for-the-small-screen movie: And Then There Were None


Amazing!

PROGRESS: 5/8

[oshizu]

We're just a little past the halfway mark for Quarter 2 and everyone's doing great!
(Except for me...I'm a little behind with reading this month, hah!)

[Carmen]

Updated to message #10

10. Read a book on a topic featured on a small-screen home improvement reality show: A High-End Finish
It was an entertaining cozy mistery, not very mysterious but quite instructive to renovate your house 😉

PROGRESS: 6/8

[oshizu]

Carmen wrote: "It was an entertaining cozy mistery, not very mysterious but quite instructive to renovate your house 😉.."

Sorry the book wasn't much of a mystery but glad you seem to have enjoyed it anyway. :D

[oshizu]

Updated msg #4

7. A book that you wish would be a TV series:
✔️Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)

Progress: 7/12 books (7/10 tasks)

[Margie]

oshizu wrote: "We're just a little past the halfway mark for Quarter 2 and everyone's doing great!
(Except for me...I'm a little behind with reading this month, hah!)"

I'm a little behind but I have a couple books in the queue that I'm looking forward to for August.

[Margie]

Carmen wrote: "Updated message #10

✔9. Read a book that inspired a small-screen movie or series nominated for a television award (e.g. Bafta/Emmy-nominated): [book:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Me..."

Carmen - great idea for this prompt! I'm changing my plan since I've been meaning to read this one for ages.

[Carmen]

Margie wrote: "Carmen - great idea for this prompt! I'm changing my plan since I've been meaning to read this one for ages. ..."

Great, Margie!
I hope you like it as much as I do.

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

✔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


Interesting book about the backgroud of the people behind the show and the show itself.

[Rachael]

Updated message 19: 6/7

[oshizu]

Update to msg #4

📗4. Read a book about TV/cable impact on society.
✔️I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Emily Nussbaum)

📗7. Read a book that you wish would be a TV series:
✔️What Angels Fear (C. S. Harris)

Progress: 9/12 books (8/10 tasks)