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Two New Movies Prove Appeal of “Little Women”

What can a 150-year-old novel still offer up to readers in the digitally enhanced 21st century? As proof of the timeless appeal of Little Women (Bantam Classics), the new movie in theaters Sept. 28 is the 7th film version of the classic. It’s a modern retelling: Newbie director Clare Niederpruem brings Meg,…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 27, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Book-To-Film Adaptations Coming Your Way This Fall

Autumn days beg for pumpkin, apple cider and of course books! There are an increasing number of book-to-film adaptations. Roxanne recommends reading these books before you hit the cinema this Fall! To purchase any of the books in this episode, please visit RJ Julia Booksellers Want more BookTrib? Sign up NOW for news and…

Just The Right Book PodcastOctober 26, 2018

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“If Beale Street Could Talk” Still Delivers On Screen

James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage) was published in 1974, but its themes are just as fresh, and as tragic, today. And the new movie that’s been made from it, if anything, shows that our issues with race haven’t progressed very far at all. Image courtesy of amazon…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 17, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

What can a novel written in the early 1940s teach us today about national identity? Plenty, especially when a German director like Christian Petzold portrays it as a kaleidoscope of time, place, person and politics. “Transit,” his adaptation of Anna Seghers' novel (New York Review Books Classics) of the same…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 14, 2019

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“One Hundred Years of Solitude” To Join Netflix

It’s not often Nobel Prize-winning literature gets the cinematic treatment, but Netflix has acquired the rights to adapt One Hundred Years of Solitude (Harper Perennial) by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, into a series. It will be the first film version of the novel. Since its publication in Spanish in…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 12, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Reese and Kerry to Adapt ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ for TV

It’s been a little over a year since we obsessed over Reese Witherspoon's adaption of Big Little Lies, and now the star is bringing a second suburban drama to the small screen. Last week, Witherspoon announced that, in partnership with Scandal’s Kerry Washington, she will develop Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere into a television…

BookTribApril 8, 2018

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Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

If you have read The Bookshop (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Penelope Fitzgerald, you will want to see the movie to answer some questions: How can a movie portray a book’s delicately described inner states? How can subtle emotions and flitting feelings be shown on the screen? And if you have seen…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 14, 2018

BooksToScreen Children's Books

Meryl Streep Voices “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth”

The week surrounding the 50th anniversary of Earth Day marked the release of an original Apple TV+ animated short based on the Oliver Jeffers children’s book, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth. The New York Times bestseller and TIME Best Book of the Year, written and illustrated…

BookTribApril 23, 2020

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Your favorite classic holiday movies started as books

Holiday practices such as the Christmas tree, caroling, and exchanging gifts are rooted in traditions that go back generations. But for people of the modern age, there’s a new tradition without which the holiday season would be incomplete: gathering the family around the television and watching our favorite Christmas movies.…

Michael RuscoeDecember 18, 2014

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Waiting for Tulip Fever? Historical Novels We’d Love to See on the Big Screen

When we heard that Tulip Fever, Deborah Moggach’s charming historical novel was going to be made into a movie, we did a little dance. And maybe even squealed out loud. Sure, it was embarrassing, but the book is just that good. Set during "tulipomania" in Amsterdam in the 1630s, it tells…

Rachel CarterMarch 1, 2017

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New “Pet Sematary” Film Version Is Scariest Yet

Nothing’s scarier than a book that opens with “Death is a mystery and burial is a secret.” Or a movie with the tagline, “They don’t come back the same.” “Pet Sematary,” the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s book of the same name, arrived in theaters April 5. A 1983 bestseller…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 21, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction

The Other, Other George R.R. Martin Series Comes to Television: Wild Cards

Superheroes are clearly super hot right now. So is the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels, which is hot off its extremely well-received sixth season. “Hmm, if only there was a way to capitalize on the…

Katie HiresAugust 11, 2016

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The Fault in Our Stars cheat sheet (no spoilers!)

The first time I read The Fault in Our Stars I cried for three days. I’m not kidding. Three. Days. My face was puffy, I gave myself an eye infection – it wasn’t pretty. But John Green, the author, King of Vlogs, and all around Internet-sensation, created such well-rounded characters…

Rachel CarterJune 5, 2014

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Nelle Lyons Comes Into Her Own on “The Road to Home”

Nelle Lyons indeed is now discovering the truth of those words, spoken by her grandfather in The Road to Home (Gatekeeper Press), the third book in Ellen Gibson-Adler's trilogy chronicling the lives of the Lyons family. It is a multigenerational tale of broken and imperfect people trying to come to…

Cynthia ConradDecember 2, 2019

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Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Though all wars result in the same atrocious outcome, they are hardly similar in their origins. They often start with an incident, a provocation, appearing to be insignificant, but releasing long-supressed emotions. This can be a process which may take years to burn out. On May 8, 2017, we celebrated…

Frederic ColierOctober 17, 2017

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Little Women’s Infinite Playlist

Young women of every generation, at some point, will stare at themselves in a mirror and ask: Who am I, who will I become? Their answers depend on their era, just as every generation that reads Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will come away with different interpretations. Lady Bird director…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 25, 2019

Two New Movies Prove Appeal of “Little Women”

Book-To-Film Adaptations Coming Your Way This Fall

“If Beale Street Could Talk” Still Delivers On Screen

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” To Join Netflix

Reese and Kerry to Adapt ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ for TV

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

Meryl Streep Voices “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth”

Your favorite classic holiday movies started as books

Waiting for Tulip Fever? Historical Novels We’d Love to See on the Big Screen

New “Pet Sematary” Film Version Is Scariest Yet

The Other, Other George R.R. Martin Series Comes to Television: Wild Cards

The Fault in Our Stars cheat sheet (no spoilers!)

Nelle Lyons Comes Into Her Own on “The Road to Home”

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Little Women’s Infinite Playlist

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