20 - A Book Becoming a Show in 2023

[Ron]

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is supposed to be released at some point, the last I heard was that it would be this year so I'm including it.

[Ron]

This might be more difficult than I thought. Aside from Killers of the Flower Moon, I haven't been able to come across nonfiction books that will either be turned into shows or movies.

As a nonfiction reader, it's kind of annoying.

Could I use the challenge and make it harder on myself by using a fiction book, sure, but that's not my reading goal for the year so it wouldn't work.

[Heather L]

Ron, I have another suggestion for you, thanks to Stephen Colbert. He had Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux on the other night, who star in a new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” It’s based on the following book:

Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House

[Mony]

Heather, I've been waiting for that series - looks good!

[Ron]

Heather L wrote: "Ron, I have another suggestion for you, thanks to Stephen Colbert. He had Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux on the other night, who star in a new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” It’s based on ..."

Thanks for the rec. I'll look into that one.

[Diana]

Ron, I ran across these too:

The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup which is being made in to a movie with Emily Blunt and Chris Evans.

Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, which is being made in to a movie with Emilia Jones, Geena Davis, and Adam Lambert

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is the basis for Oppenheimer. It's a Christopher Nolan movie that's supposed to come out in July

[Britany]

Finished Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kaia]

I read Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI for this and I'm so glad I did. Great book.

[Ron]

Kaia wrote: "I read Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI for this and I'm so glad I did. Great book."

Excellent. I still need to do a re-read of this book and I plan to at some point.

I think though in the mean time I'll read the YA version, just to compare the two.

[Jessica]

I read Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann for this prompt

[Angela]

I will mention Dear Edward here only because I'm surprised no one else has. I just read it and do not necessarily recommend it, but found out afterwards that it fits this category.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17543896/

[Laura Ruth]

Just watched the movie version of Red, White & Royal Blue. Overall, a good adaptation. They had to simplify a lot of things from the book, and cut out some of my favorite characters (June, Rafael Luna), and drastically reduced the parts for some of the others (Nora, Beatrice, Pez).

But the heart of the book - Alex and Henry - came across beautifully. And the wedding cake scene was everything you could imagine.

[Lisa Marie]

I read Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

[Ron]

My problem with this prompt is that there aren't any nonfiction ones I have an interest in. I'm not interested in Openheimer and I've already read Killers of The Flower Moon so I'm not in the mood to read that one either.

Hopefully next year there will be better nonfiction picks, even if that isn't a prompt for this.

[Ron]

Well looks like I'm going with Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI .

I have to read the YR edition for class so it makes this perfect in a way I hadn't really thought of because I kind of didn't want to read it to begin with.

[Azuki]

I see a few mentions of Women Talking, but when I checked it seems like it was released back in 2022?

[Laura Ruth]

Wound up reading The Power, and wow - the ending had the perfect twist.