BW50: 52 Books Bingo - Book to Movie

Happy Sunday!  Our next 52 Books Bingo category is Book to Movie.  I totally enjoy watching movies that are based on books to see what the writer or director will do with the subject matter. Will they stay true to the book or will they veer far to left or right field.   I've always wanted to read the book before seeing a movie based on the book whereas my son likes to see the movie first before he reads the book. 

I can see his point as there was one movie that veered so far to the left from the book that preconceived notions about the movie were shot to heck and I was disappointed.    John Grisham's The Runaway Jury was about cancer, how someone could get to the jurors and influence the trail, and making the tobacco industry pay.  The story was excellent. The movie was about a mass shooting, guns, jury tampering, and the gun industry.  Totally different subject matter, except for the jury tampering.  I had wanted to see the book as as written because the story was so intriguing, and was disappointed with the rewritten movie.   

But none the less, I enjoy watching books turned into movies from Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep which the movie Blade Runner was based off of to the Harry Potter films to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code to Schindler's List.  Join me in reading and watching Books to Movies or Television shows

43 of Our All-Time Favorite Book-to-Movie Adaptations

60 New Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2022 Reading List

All the Books With 2023 Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading List

The 20 Best TV Shows Based on Books From the Past Decade

15 Amazing TV Series Inspired by Books

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BW9: Book news

OSCARS

I don't go out to the theater any more preferring to wait until movies come out in DVD so I can watch them in the privacy of my own home. And I don't watch much live television so miss all the commercials for upcoming releases.  Which is why I enjoy watching the Oscars and finding out about the offerings out there.  This year six of the nine  best picture nominees were inspired by books or plays or news articles.  The movie Argo is based on a article from Wired magazine and  Juicy and Delicious was inspired by a one act play by Lucy Alibar. So be sure to check out the Oscars tonight and then read the books.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin

 

Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

In other bookish news CSPAN's The First Ladies of the United States has been published to go along with their television series: First Ladies: Influence and Image about the lives of the first ladies which will run for two seasons and begins weekly on Monday, February 25th.  

    The series will cover

• the first ladies' White House years
• the interests they championed
• their policy influences on the presidents
• their stewardship of the White House
• their approach to private and public life

 

The 90-minute programs will air live Mondays at 9 pm ET on C-SPAN and C-SPAN3 (which also is the home for American History TV on the weekends), C-SPAN Radio, and via livestreaming on c-span.org.

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