I’m putting this post up in honor of an adaptation project I’m working on right now. From Booking through Thursday:
1. In your opinion, what is the best translation of a book to a movie?
2. The worst?
3. Had you read the book before seeing the movie, and did that make a difference? (Personally, all [...]

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Like Poodlerat, I like lists. British librarians were asked to come up with a list of books adults should read before they die. Like all of these lists, it’s weird.
Books I’ve read are in bold; books I’ll almost certainly never read are crossed out.
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Found this meme courtesy of Amy, the Sleepy Reader.
Name up to three characters . . .
1. You wish were real so you could meet them:
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I like to be moved by literature, which is why I don’t go crazy for metafiction or postmodernism or overly intellectual fiction (Don DeLillo, Thomas Pyncheon, etc.). Such was the book I read yesterday for work.
Otter asks,
What are the five books in your library (or memory) that stirred the greatest emotive reaction in [...]

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I found this meme over at Bookfoolery and Babble, and heaven knows I love lists. These are the 10 books that form the backbone of my library, the 10 books with which I would never part, the 10 books that I will always reread at every stage of my life. That’s not to [...]

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The BBC reported yesterday on the top books that go unread by Britons. I love that enough people actually thought they should read David Beckham’s autobiography in order to have it be the third most unfinished non-fiction book. I’ve bolded the ones that I’ve read for kicks.
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In Newsweek this week, literary critic Harold Bloom offers his list of the five books he’d take to the desert island with him. Touchstone Magazine’s blog has some intriguing commentary, and some fun lists in the comments.
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Well, out of the 1001 books some dude says you should read before you die, I’ve read 43 out of the 157 listed from the 1800s:
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Out of the 715 books listed as being must-reads before you die, I’ve read 112:
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I have no intention of reading every book on this list. I have zero interest in reading anything more by Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, EL Doctorow, Thomas Pyncheon, or Don Dellillo than what I’ve already read, for example. But I did enjoy going through the list and finding out how well read [...]

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