Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Books Into Movies (and vice versa) Challenge

And last, but definitely not least is the challenge that was inspired by the movie "The Wedding Date": The Books Into Movies Challenge! Obviously, the goal would be to read 2+ books that were made into movies (and, if possible, watch the movie). This can be Shakespeare's plays, Austen's novels (I'm sure some of you know the wonderful BBC movies?), or newer movies like The Wedding Date (after Liz Young's Asking For Trouble)! Actually, even He's Just Not That Into You would count, now that it is being made into a movie...

Serendipity made two great banners for the challenge:





When?
The challenge will start January 1, 2009 and end December 31, 2009.

How?
The goal is to read 2+ books made into a movie or books that relate to TV series (Murder She Wrote and the likes).

To sign up, please leave a comment here with a link to your blog post.

My tentative list:
1) Liz Young: Asking For Trouble
2) Jessica Fletcher: Manhattans & Murder


The participants are:
1) Kathrin
2) Sherrie
3) Yvonne
4) Judy (Intergalactic Bookworm)
5) Jenny
6) blondierocket
7) Serendipity
8) Kisha
9) Nely
10) Kris@Bookheart
11) Strixaluco
12) Audra
13) Diane (bookinhand)
14) Lulu
15) rickandlena
16) Teddy
17) Joy
18) californiameaghan
19) Jan in Edmonds
20) Kelly

And here are the first reviews:
1) Teddyree - Marley & Me
2) Nely: Blindness
3) Nely: Where The Heart Is
4) Nely: The Reader
5) Nely: Christmas Jars
6) Nely: Confessions Of A Shopaholic
7) Teddyree: Dead Until Dark
8) Yvonne: Nights In Rodanthe
9) Nely: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
10) Nely: He's Just Not That Into You
11) Nely: Stardust
12) Sherrie: Secret Life Of Bees
13) Sherrie: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
14) Joy: The Age Of Innocence
15) Joy: Cover Her Face
16) Joy: Hotel Du Lac
17) Nely: The City Of Ember
18) Teddyree: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
19) Yvonne: Confessions Of A Shopaholic
20) rickandlenamedina: Angels & Demons
21) Lena: The Time Traveler's Wife

If you're up for a shorter time frame to complete the challenge and/or want to do this challenge later in the year check out Callista's blog - sometime in August 2009 she should have infos on her challenge up!

48 comments:

Grilsgood said...

I often read a book that has been made into a movie and never knew it. So this should be easy. Lindy

Sherrie said...

Hi!
I would like to join in on this challenge. I have posted and linked back to you. You can see it here:
JUST BOOKS: Book into Movies, Agatha Christie, Pages Read Challenges
Sherrie

Yvonne said...

I'm in! I've already blogged about this challenge. Thanks for telling me about it, Kathrin.

Anonymous said...

Count me in! I have a lot of Doctor Who books to read!

Judy/Intergalactic Bookworm

http://intergalacticbookworm.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

@ Grilsgood: That's what I think. There are so many out there, maybe I'll just watch my DVDs and pay attention to the opening credits. That way I'll certainly discover a few books :)

@ Sherrie: I'll make sure to add your link one I manage to find the time for the link list. Just give me another day or two!

@ Yvonne: My pleasure!

Jenny said...

Looking forward to this. Thanks. I don't watch many movies so I can do this and hubby will enjoy it cause I'll watch some movies with him LOL.

Anonymous said...

Count me on this one as well. I love reading books and then comparing them to their movie counterparts.

http://blondierocket.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/book-into-movie-challenge-2009/

Anonymous said...

I'd like to participate in this challenge if that's okay. My blog entry about it can be found here.

I've also made a banner for it which can be found here if anyone would else would like to use it.

Kisha said...

Doing this one too
http://kishasworld.com/2009/01/books-into-movies-and-vice-versa-challenge/

Nely said...

Hey count me in for this one. Here is my post about the challenge.

http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/2008/12/books-into-movies-challenge.html

Thanks - Nely

Anonymous said...

I realised that the banner I made might look better without the border, so I've done a second one - here.

Nely said...

Where do we post reviews... or do we leave them as comments. Let me know please. Thanks.

Nely

Unknown said...

@ Jenny, blondierocket, Kisha & Kris@Bookheart: Welcome to the Challenge!

@ Serendipity: Thank you so much for the banners and welcome to the challenge!

@ Nely: Glad you're joining in! Just leave the link to the review in the comments and I'll add it to the post :)

Anonymous said...

I always like to read the books first, and I got a copy of The Other Boleyn Girl for Christmas, so count me in.

Unknown said...

@ strixaluco: Welcome! I already added you :)

Audra Marie said...

I'm joining in. This is my first reading challenge for 2009. I've been wanting to read the two I listed for quite a while. :) This will help me do it. :)

Here is my challenge page: http://www.audrasilva.com/blog/?page_id=80

Anonymous said...

I have a new e-mail address:

bookwormjudy9292ATyahooDOTcom

bookinhand said...

This will be fun! Count me in! My post is found here: http://bookinhand.blogspot.com/2009/01/books-into-movies-challenge.html
Diane

Lulu said...

I am joining in on this one as well. My list is here:

http://luluslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/books-into-movies-or-tv-series_06.html

Thanks for hosting. :-)

Unknown said...

@ Audra: Welcome! And have fun reading the books on your list :)

@ Judy: Thanks for letting me know about your new e-mail address :)

@ Diane: Glad you'll join in!

@ Lulu: Welcome to the challenge!

Lena said...

Hi there,
I would love to join this challenge!!!
www.rickandlena.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

Glad you're joining in on the challenge! :)

Nely said...

Here are my first four reviews:

Blindness by José Saramago
http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/2009/01/blindness-by-jos-saramago.html

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/2009/01/where-heart-is-by-billie-letts.html

The Reader by Bernard Schlink
http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/2009/01/reader-by-bernard-schlink.html

and

Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright
http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/2009/01/christmas-jars-by-jason-f-wright.html

♥ Nely

Unknown said...

Wow, Nely! You already read a nice amount of books :)

Teddyree said...

Count me in please, I posted the banner on my blog but forgot to sign up here DUH!
http://teddyree-theeclecticreader.blogspot.com/2009/01/books-into-movies-challenge.html

Teddyree said...

Here's my first review - Marley & Me
http://teddyree-theeclecticreader.blogspot.com/2009/01/marley-and-me-by-john-grogan.html

JLS Hall said...

I know I'm really late getting here, but I'd love to join this challenge. I'll do a post about it as soon as I can. Here's a link to my blog (Joy's Blog):
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/

Unknown said...

Glad you're in, Teddyree & Joy :-)

Teddyree, I already posted your review and will check it out in a minute...

californiameaghan said...

http://californiameaghan.blogspot.com/2009/02/books-into-movies-challenge-2009.html

Halfway finished already!

Jan in Edmonds said...

Hope it's not too late to sign up. I'm sure I can do 2 books/movies by 12/31/09 -- even if I start now. ;-)

Unknown said...

@ Meaghan & Jan: Glad you're joining us!

@ Nely: I hope I added all the reviews for the challenge you posted so far? :-)

Jan in Edmonds said...

Kathrin -- Thanks for including me in the challenge. However, could you please change my link to Jan in Edmonds. It's up there as Jan in Edmonton!

Teddyree said...

Hi Kathrin,
Have posted my review & comparison for my 2nd one in this challenge Dead Until Dark/True Blood series

You can check it out here
http://teddyree-theeclecticreader.blogspot.com/2009/02/dead-until-dark-by-charlaine-harris.html

Yvonne said...

I just read my first book for this challenge. Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. Here's the link to the review...

http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/03/nights-in-rodanthe-by-nicholas-sparks.html

Unknown said...

@ Jan in Edmonds: Oops, sorry for that! I changed it :-)

@ Teddyree & Yvonne: I added your links :-) Thanks for posting them.

Unknown said...

Congrats, Nely! I added your reviews to the list :-)

JLS Hall said...

Here are the links to my reviews of:

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2009/03/review-age-of-innocence.html

Cover Her Face, by P.D. James
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2009/02/review-cover-her-face.html

and
Hotel Du Lac, by Anita Brookner
http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2009/02/review-hotel-du-lac.html

Unknown said...

Joy, I added your reviews :-) Congrats on finishing the challenge!

Nely said...

Here's my review for:
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/2009/04/city-of-ember-by-jeanne-duprau.html

Thanks
♥ Nely

Unknown said...

Nely, consider the link added :-)

Teddyree said...

Posted review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (my 3rd for this challenge)

http://teddyree-theeclecticreader.blogspot.com/2009/06/curious-case-of-benjamin-button-by-f.html

Yvonne said...

I just finished this challenge with my review of Confessions of a Shopaholic

http://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/06/confessions-of-shopaholic-by-sophie.html

Unknown said...

Great, Teddyree & Yvonne :-)
Congrats on finishing the challenge, Yvonne!

Your reviews have been added to the link list.

jedi145 said...

Hi!

http://kelly-books.blogspot.com/2009/07/books-into-movies.html

Lena said...

Finished Angels and Demons:
http://rickandlena.blogspot.com/2009/06/angels-and-demons.html
For a very short review

Unknown said...

@ Kelly, rickandlenamedina: I added your links to the list above :-)
Hope you're having fun!

Lena said...

Hi there! I finished my second book for the movie challenge:

http://rickandlena.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-travelers-wife.html

Love, love, loved this book!

Unknown said...

I added the link, Lena! I have that one one the never shrinking Mt. TBR :-)