UK Book Club discussion

We started the Challenge back in April 2015 and finally we've reached the final category!

In August we'll be reading books that have been adapted for the screen. There are so many to choose from.

I'm going to try to select something that will score across my other challenges too. So, I might go for The Revenant and The Milagro Beanfield War to get two more US States. I'm also considering The Last King of Scotland to give me Uganda for around the world. Then again I've been meaning to read The Godfather for years and years. Decisions, decisions.

There was an offer a few years back on such books and I've still to read The Commitments and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (the latter rebadged the match the movie title). I also have the The Millennium Trilogy, but I am not going to read that many books in August, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is on my A-Z Character Soup list for L.

I've made a start with Drive by James Sallis.

Also, quite like the look of... and

I read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I am reading Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. A little dated and very angst-ridden.

I was waiting for Taggart on Drama and chanced upon something called Shetland which didn't look like a documentary. I clicked for info and discovered it was an adaptation of the novel Red Bones which I bought years ago for my slow tour around these islands. So will I finish before the need of the month. Time will tell.

I finished Ann Cleeve's Red Bones, which I bought years ago had only discovered four ago was made into a TV drama I'd never heard of, although I went on to discover that she is the author of the Vera novels that also became a TV drama. THe style is languid and with a bit too much of the character's thoughts breaking up the dialogue, but the slow mood sort of suits the Shetland setting.

I've just started reading The Horse Whisperer
Not much hope of finishing it by the end of the month but at least I've started in time!

I was struggling this month until i saw a battered old penguin copy of - i wasn't even aware that it had been a film with Anne Bancroft,peter finch, and James mason with screenplay by harold Pinter. An interesting post war story of a woman's life. I think ill try and find the film.

I just finished A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene, which it turns out was adapted for film a couple of times under the title A Gun for Hire..

I am still reading it but am making good progress with The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith and I've go the TV adaptation waiting on the planner for when I've read the book.

I've just finished The Horse Whisperer. I'm not a big fan of horses but I can't fault this novel. I may even have to watch the film now!

I just finished 'The Milagro Beanfiels War'. It has taken me ages! It's one of those books that looks deceptively short - around the 350page mark, but in fact it's printed on thin paper, using a small font and with very tight margins. More like over 600 pages. At least it was light to lug around!

But was it any good? The characters are eccentric/interesting, but we spend so long discovering their long and convoluted backstories that there's very little time for any real action in the present. There are some sequences that did give me a good chuckle on the train, but it was a bit all over the place to really hang together imho. Curious to check out the film though...

*beanfield even!

It's one of those books that looks deceptively short - around the 350page mark, but in fact it's printed on thin paper, using a sm..."

I noticed on my last visit to Waterstones that books I had bought in the same Piccadilly store where now in versions with half the spine they used to have. The book equivalent of shrinkflation.

Liz wrote: "*beanfield even!"

beanfiels sound more interesting.. ;)