Buzzfeed recently listed out 19 books that will become movies this year. Some are hits, while others are misses, and lots are proof that there’s no accounting for taste.
A few hits:
- I’ve previously read a couple of Mitchell Zuchoff’s books, and Benghazi never ceases to be a source of interesting controversy, so I’ll likely pick up 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi.
- The BFG is by my girls’ bedside right now, and I think the 7-year old has already cracked it. With Spielberg directing, it’ll be hard to pass up this Roald Dahl classic.
- I loved The Jungle Book as a boy, and I suspect I can induce my littles to love it, as well. Who can’t love an adventure that involves living with the wolves, fighting tigers, and teaching apes to be men?
- Speaking of apes and men, Tarzan is on here. Somehow, I missed Edgar Rice Burroughs in my youth, but I could be persuaded to read it…maybe.
- Brittany had a lot to say about The Girl on the Train, and I’ve been meaning to read it. This is as good an excuse as I’m going to get.
- A Lewis Carroll and a JK Rowling make this list, and they need no excuse or justification for reading.
Misses:
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Sorry. No regency romance meets the living dead for me. I’m still constantly bemused that someone has made money off of this mashup
- I lost interest in Dan Brown a long time ago, and while I’ve got Inferno sitting on the shelf, I’m not uber motivated to open it. Too many books, too little time…
- Nicholas Sparks has a movie, and I guess that’s no shocker, but you can’t pay me to read it. (Well, maybe you could. Name your bid).
- I count four that look to be romance related (including The Fifth Wave, which is a bit of a throw since the book is more scifi/alien apocalypse than teen romance, but maybe there’s enough in there to aim it at that target audience), and I’ll be skipping those.
In addition, there’s a couple that intrigue me, but which are new, at least to me:
- A Monster Calls looks fascinating, and it’s the only one on the list that is a complete unknown to me. Adding it to the to read list.
- Brittany brought home Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children last month from her book club. It looks to be an interesting read, as well.
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