A book of your choice is getting an adaptation and you have been put in charge of it, congrats!

1️⃣ What book is getting an adaption? 2️⃣ Is the adaptation going to be a movie, a shorter TV show (8-12 episodes) or a full 22ish episode season? 3️⃣ Are you casting established actresses and actos for the main cast or open castings? Do you maybe have a main cast in mind? 4️⃣ Or: Would you prefer an animated adaptation? In that case, which existing movie’s/show‘s art style would you want? 5️⃣ What is one change, however big or small, you would make? 6️⃣ What is a plot point or scene you are absolutely not willing to change and want to adapt 1 for 1? 7️⃣ What song would be the soundtrack (or at least will totally be in the adaptation)? 8️⃣ Last choice to make: What rating will your adaptation have?

Congrats, your adaptation has been created! See you in front of the TV!

Little bonus: 9️⃣ Go to a random number generator online (1-100) and see that your Rotten Tomatoes score would be👀

Or even if it’s REAL 😭

I swear when I was a young teenager I remember going into Ottakars and looking at the fantasy shelves and finding a book that I proceeded to buy and read where the protagonist was cursed or something to become monstrous or ugly or something along those lines.

It was a classic type of adult high fantasy and this would have been around 15 years ago and I swear I’ve tried googling and looking at lists and nothing ever clicks 😭 it’s like when you have a song stuck in your head but you can’t remember the lyrics so you can’t find it 🤣🤣🤣

A book of your choice is getting an adaptation and you have been put in charge of it, congrats!

1️⃣ What book is getting an adaption? 2️⃣ Is the adaptation going to be a movie, a shorter TV show (8-12 episodes) or a full 22ish episode season? 3️⃣ Are you casting established actresses and actos for the main cast or open castings? Do you maybe have a main cast in mind? 4️⃣ Or: Would you prefer an animated adaptation? In that case, which existing movie’s/show‘s art style would you want? 5️⃣ What is one change, however big or small, you would make? 6️⃣ What is a plot point or scene you are absolutely not willing to change and want to adapt 1 for 1? 7️⃣ What song would be the soundtrack (or at least will totally be in the adaptation)? 8️⃣ Last choice to make: What rating will your adaptation have?

Congrats, your adaptation has been created! See you in front of the TV!

Little bonus: 9️⃣ Go to a random number generator online (1-100) and see that your Rotten Tomatoes score would be👀

I’m just curious, as there are so many cute icon/avatars to choose from… why did you pick your current one? Do you change it based off your read? Change it with the season? What drew you to be your little icon?!👀✨💭

Heyyyy everyone!! I just started reading Frankenstein, and I read The Great Gatsby not long ago, and they both have many pages of introductions and forewords.

Does anyone read them in full? If so, do you find that they add anything to the reading experience?

Personally, I don’t like to read them before the book, and if I particularly enjoyed the book I’ll go back and read some of the introduction.

What do you do?? 🙃

Sooo I think we've all been through a reading slump before and this has probably been mentioned thousands of times before but I wanna get this off my mind lmao I haven't read a singular book since the end of February. As a matter of fact, I've been maxing 2-3 books per month ever since I started working full time and let me tell you, i was NOT prepared for how hard it is to get back into reading once you actually have the time. I have a week long break from work and I could've read all day, but every book I pick up is boring. I cannot focus on reading. But i WANT to read. Is this normal? I swear school was more than a full time job and i still managed to read 10+ books a month back then (excluding school related books because let's be real, i didn't read those LMAO) i've heard before to not force myself to read, so i've just been non stop crocheting a scarf but now that's getting boring and i don't have any other hobbies lmao. so my next step is to try reading a book i've been wanting to annotate, but it's just been sitting next to me all day. and yes i know audiobooks, i've been listening to those a lot but i just miss the feeling of getting completely immersed in a world of fiction if that makes sense? i'll update this if i actually get around to reading today lmao.

This is not so much as to comment on the current events of the book so far but in my rereading this as an adult, I can say for now I fully miss reading this for the first time as a tween. It’s interesting the life I’ve had and a lot of the elements of this book still being cool and interesting to me as an adult. I’m taking notes through my reread bc they just remind me of things I want to look up and Sophie reminds me a lot of younger me.

I knew rereading would be a comfort I needed, a weird confirmation for myself, but it’s been even more comforting than I originally thought.

went into this book without knowing what this is about and i am pleasantly surprised. first off - the writing is lovely. i feel like emily st. john mandel is so precise and intentional with her prose, which is quite lyrical to read. the narrator voice is super interesting to me, it's told in third person, though not entirely limited, as there's an omniscient awareness that pokes its head in every so often.

there's a heavy melancholy to the story despite the light hearted tone between characters that i really enjoy. i had to check when this was published--2014--and i honestly thought the sequence of the epidemic appearing would bother me more than it did. it's quite insane that the covid-19 pandemic is now feeling distant enough that pandemics in literature no longer bother me (i used to hate reading or watching anything that had virus pandemics in them).

the ensemble nature of this story makes it a bit difficult to follow all the characters, but you really get the sense of community amongst these people despite the somewhat depressing state of the world. i am also quite impressed with how easily mandel fleshes out characters in either a line or two of dialogue.

i'm glad i picked this one up, i'm liking it a lot so far.

I was just thinking about some books that i didn't get to finished reading, especially series back when I was 15 or 17 yrs old Some of these series were left off in middle of it or just read one out of the number of the series that was published. Not because they weren't good but because things happened and life got in the way. Whether they were series read back in middle/high school in whatever year, was there any series that you read back then, but didn’t finish reading them? If so what were they? what do you remember enjoying reading them? and if you’ll ever reread them again?

Here’s some that I didn’t get to finished but would like to get back to them.

• The Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Cirque du FREAK series by Darren Shan
• House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast (currently rereading them)
• Hush Hush Series by Becca Fitzpatrick
• The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott
• Beautiful Creatures saga by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

I think that’s all of them, anyways these series were good and some I was close to being finished but again, life got in the way. But I remember them fondly and many of them helped me get through the though times back then. So I hope to get to read them again and see how many of them I remember. If I’ll see them any differently from when I first read them. ☺️🥰