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Books on Screen: Winter 2019 Adaptations Submitted by Becca Stumpf on January 11, 2019

The smell of popcorn as you enter the theater. The anxious search for the perfect seat. The moment you settle into the upholstery burnished by cinephiles past… Read more

Tagged: A Discovery of Witches, Ashes in the Snow, Between Shades of Gray, film adaptations, movie tie-in, Mowgli, The Aftermath, the magicians, The Passage, tv adaptation

Books on Screen: Summer 2018 Adaptations Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on May 22, 2018

Summer is almost here, and now is the time to catch up on books that are coming soon to (or already on) a screen near you. Read more

Tagged: alex mckenna, Ann Marie Lee, bookclub, Christina Ricci, Crazy Rich Asians, Dana Meachen Rau, family travel, film adaptations, gillian flynn, Kevin Kwan, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Lynn Chen, Sharp Objects, stephanie danler, sweetbitter, tv adaptation, Vikas Adam, Who HQ, Who Was Gandhi?

Books on Screen: Spring 2018 Adaptations Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on March 7, 2018

There’s never a shortage of fantastic books, films, and television shows to check out. Why not have the best of both worlds? Plug into one of these audiobooks and then watch its screen adaptation (or vice versa!). Read more

Tagged: A Wrinkle In Time, adaptations, alex mckenna, Anna Dewdney, Annie Barrows, Ava DuVernay, Beatrix Potter, Becca Battoe, book adaptations, book to screen, bookclub, business, Charlotte Jones Voiklis, crafter, Dan Woren, David Levithan, Drama High, E L James, E. M. Forster, Ernest Cline, EVERY DAY, family travel, Fifty Shades Freed, film adaptations, fitness, gardener-cook, Hope Davis, Howards End, Hulu, Ian McEwan, Jennifer Garner, Jim Weiss, John Lee, Juliet Mills, Lawrence Wright, Llama Llama Red Pajama and 19 Other Favorites, Madeleine L'Engle, Mark Deakins, Mary Ann Shaffer, Maureen Orth, McMafia, Michael Sokolove, Misha Glenny, movie adaptations, NBC, Netflix, On Chesil Beach, paul boehmer, Ready Player One, Rise, Rosalyn Landor, STARZ, Susan Duerden, T. Burgess, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Looming Tower, The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories, tv adaptation, Vulgar Favors, Wil Wheaton

Fall Book Adaptations for TV and Film Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on September 5, 2017

If you’re like us, you want to be clued in on a book before you see it on screen. Listen to these five books before you watch them on TV or in theaters this fall. Read more

Tagged: adaptations, alias grace, book club, bookclub, film adaptations, idris elba, jacob tremblay, judi dench, julia roberts, kate winslet, margaret atwood, michael fassbender, owen wilson, stephen frears, The Mountain Between Us, The Snowman, tv adaptation, Victoria & Abdul, we're all wonders, wonder

Thirteen Reasons Why and the Changes from Book to Screen Submitted by Brieana Garcia on April 6, 2017

There are books that stick with us throughout the years, and after reading Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher a little over a decade ago, I knew it would be one of them. The premise is haunting, but it begins an important discussion that needs to be had, especially in an age where bullying continues to be prevalent. It was quite fascinating to see how I connected to this title as a teenager, and now as a young adult with Netflix’s adapted series.

Tagged: book to screen, Jay Asher, THIRTEEN REASONS WHY, tv adaptation