It's Friday! (11/20)

[ufcasey]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: Do you have any tv shows/movies that are book adaptations that you are looking forward to? Here's a pretty good list:

www.perpetualpageturner.com/books-becoming-movies-upcoming/

[Vespasia]

I actually had a fairly busy reading week.

Over the weekend I finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I enjoyed it a lot but still felt like something was missing. I guess my expectations were too high?

Then I read the first set of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comics.

Now I am listening to A Promised Land read by Barack Obama and reading When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole. Both are fantastic. 



QOTW: The trailer for the new Dune looks pretty awesome. 

[meowmaps]

This week I read The Eighth Detective. I liked the concept but it had a really slow pace. I also read Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir. Really good and really sad.

Now I'm reading Queenie, which I didn't get to last year. It's promising so far.

QOTW: Definitely Death on the Nile. I've had it on my radar since Kenneth Branagh did Murder on the Orient Express a few years ago.

[dontlook]

I’m slowly reading Obama’s A Promised Land. It’s good but I bought the physical book instead of the ebook and it takes so much longer to read physical books.

QOTW: I almost always dislike movies that are based on books. I started watching Virgin River on Netflix and had to stop because it was out of order from the book and it made me mad. I have problems lol.

[meowmaps]

Nov 20, 2020 10:02:25 GMT -5 dontlook said:

I’m slowly reading Obama’s A Promised Land. It’s good but I bought the physical book instead of the ebook and it takes so much longer to read physical books.

QOTW: I almost always dislike movies that are based on books. I started watching Virgin River on Netflix and had to stop because it was out of order from the book and it made me mad. I have problems lol.

I don't think you have problems!  I feel the same way.  If I've read something then I generally don't like the movie/tv show. They did an HBO adaptation of Olive Kitteridge and I refused to watch it because in my mind Olive didn't look like Frances McDormand.  Sometimes I think my imaginings are better than what some producer has come up with.  If I have no connection to a book then I can watch a movie/tv show based on a book without judgement.  

[dontlook]

Nov 20, 2020 10:08:46 GMT -5 meowmaps said:

Nov 20, 2020 10:02:25 GMT -5 dontlook said:

I’m slowly reading Obama’s A Promised Land. It’s good but I bought the physical book instead of the ebook and it takes so much longer to read physical books.

QOTW: I almost always dislike movies that are based on books. I started watching Virgin River on Netflix and had to stop because it was out of order from the book and it made me mad. I have problems lol.

I don't think you have problems!  I feel the same way.  If I've read something then I generally don't like the movie/tv show. They did an HBO adaptation of Olive Kitteridge and I refused to watch it because in my mind Olive didn't look like Frances McDormand.  Sometimes I think my imaginings are better than what some producer has come up with.  If I have no connection to a book then I can watch a movie/tv show based on a book without judgement.  

I’m still mad about Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum and really mad about Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher. Just no! Do these people read the book before they cast?

[charlatti]

I’m reading Ghosts of Harvard. I don’t really like it but it’s enough of a page turner to keep my attention, and everything else I’ve tried to read this week has been too much for my over-stressed brain.

QOTW: I have not heard of most of those. I liked Good Morning, Midnight — is watch that as a movie.

[travella]

I am 75% of the way through Hidden Valley Road and my son and I should finish Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark today. Next I'm reading The Love Story of Missy Carmichael and will be starting Number the Stars with my son.

QOTW: I didn't know that Good Morning, Midnight was going to be coming out soon! I need to move the book up my to read list. I'm also looking forward to The Nightingale.

[Deleted]

Work has been killing me, so I haven't been reading much and haven't had time to make it to the library. I'm picking up three books this afternoon and am off until 11/30 after today. Whee!

I am finishing Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth by Nick Murray. It is fabulous and surprisingly readable. Highly recommend for anyone who is currently investing or is getting ready to. I wish I'd read it 20 years ago! He is the financial advisor to many financial advisors for the wealthy. I've had the opportunity to participate in some calls and seminars with him through my job, and he is fantastic. He has completely changed my mindset about investing and building wealth.

QOTW: Not really. I'm not much of a movie person and I don't watch a lot of tv. I tend to hate movie adaptations of the books I love, so I usually skip them.

[msmerymac]

Long time, no post. I'm currently reading The Dutch House - I didn't realize until I started it that it takes place about 15 minutes from me! Maybe this will become the most famous novel set in my county? (Currently, that distinction goes to The Lovely Bones.)

QOTW: I was intrigued by the recent Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, one of my favorite books. Lily James did a great job. Kristin Scott Thomas was fine. I was concerned about Armie Hammer in that role, and it turns out I had reason to be, but it wasn't just the fault of casting - it's also how Maxim DeWinter was written in that screenplay. Anyway, it made me long to watch the Hitchcock version with Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, which is fabulous.

I think The Nightingale is going to be a hot mess. And we all know the Woman in the Window will be too.

[litskispeciality]

I started "The Unraveling of Cassidy something" and it's good. I'm glad it came with a trigger warning at the beginning.

I'm still chipping away at "Leaving Time" as well. Hope to finish that one this weekend.

QOTW: I loved The Nightingale book, but don't think Dakota Fanning is a good fit for the role. Woman in the Window (book) was overrated, but I'll probably watch. I LOVED Fear Street so I'll have to try to get my hands on that one, and the ballet book looks good, will add to my TBR list. Thanks for sharing this list!

[aurora]

I just finished A Woman is No Man . I'll comment more during next week's discussion.

I also just finished The Girl with Seven Names , a true story about a North Korean defector. It's the kind of story that sounds really hard to read, and of course there are sufficient themes, but it's really easy to read and interesting.

QOTW: I'm intrigued by the Wheel of Time, though I don't see how any show can do it justice. It's a 14-book series where each book is 600-1000 pages long!

I'm also curious about the new ending Stephen King is writing for The Stand! He is a great writer overall but so many of his book endings are not so great.

[litskispeciality]

There are no problems with not liking an adaptation, or changing the order. I devoured the You and Hidden Bodies books, but couldn't get in to season 2 due to changes and timelines and such. Wayward Pines made me crazy, my poor DH didn't read the books so he loved it anyway.

[tacokick]

Slow week! I tried a few other books and couldn’t get into them. We had roofers out so it was loud and stressful with the dogs and trying to work. Not much of an attention span so all easy stuff.

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Odd Child Out by Gilly MacMillan

QOTW:

Death on the Nile! The cast looks good. I like a big ensemble movie.

[minzy]

I read The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer. Time travel by a female neurosurgeon to the 1300s just ahead of the Plague. I first heard about it here and liked it. Thanks to whoever suggested it two or three years ago!

And then I finally got to read This is Going to Hurt - Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay, and I loved that. He is so funny yet seemed very compassionate.

I am working on A Woman is No Man for next week’s discussion and I hope it turns soon, because I’m finding them all insufferable so far (ducks). 😬

[meowmaps]

Nov 20, 2020 18:56:58 GMT -5 minzy said:

I read The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer. Time travel by a female neurosurgeon to the 1300s just ahead of the Plague. I first heard about it here and liked it. Thanks to whoever suggested it two or three years ago!

And then I finally got to read This is Going to Hurt - Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay, and I loved that. He is so funny yet seemed very compassionate.

I am working on A Woman is No Man for next week’s discussion and I hope it turns soon, because I’m finding them all insufferable so far (ducks). 😬

I thought I was alone until your post! I read A Woman is No Man last year and I gave it 3 stars, which is pretty generous I think. I probably should’ve given it 2 stars. I wasn’t impressed.

[minzy]

And a tangent from the question of the week, but I appreciate that the author of the blog post about the TV/movie adaptations included the book links for not just Amazon, but www.bookshop.org as well.

If you don’t know about them, they’re a newer formed group of independent bookshops that have banded together to compete against Amazon. I have family members who own an independent bookstore, and for years they have been dwarfed by the shadow of Amazon. My family’s shop is now signed up through www.bookshop.org and they are big fans of the concept. I rarely buy books since I’m such a heavy library user, but I have bought a gift through bookshop and try to check there before Amazon. It’s something for us all to consider.

amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/02/this-is-revolutionary-new-online-bookshop-unites-indies-to-rival-amazon

[ssmjlm]

I had 2 DNFs this week.

QOTW: I’ve had a few better than book in the past year, which isn’t typical. I’m not really following any adaptations.

[Nonny]

I finished City of Girls earlier this week, and now I'm reading The Heart's Invisible Furies, both for book clubs that are coming up.

QOTW:
The trailer for Dune looks awesome, but I'm prepared to be disappointed, because that is also an epic book with a lot going on, and also have a massive series that follows (similar to Wheel of Time). 

I'm definitely looking forward to The Stand. I didn't know before this that there will be a new ending though... interesting.

I feel like Y: The Last Man might be OK. I don't know. That graphic novel was kind of all over the place. If they pull some of the characters that are cool from the later issues into the beginning and keep them around, I think it will be better.

I didn't know they were making Nine Perfect Strangers into a show. LOL! I loved that book, but I know a lot of people didn't. I'm watching Lost Resort right now (trashy reality TV) and I was related it to this book and telling my H

SPOILER: Click to show

that they have to be micro dosing them with LSD. LMAO!!

My H wants to watch Hillbilly Elegy, which I've read, and I don't really see why it needed to be made into a movie. Plus the author is a total ass.