Happy bookish birthdays (February 28) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 28) to…

• Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) (A Series of Unfortunate Events) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Megan McDonald (the Stink series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Walter Tevis (The Man Who Fell to Earth) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marcel Pagnol (My Father’s Glory) (at AmazonSmile*)
• David R. Ross (On the Trail of William Wallace) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Stephen Goldin (The Eternity Brigade) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Stephen Spender (The Temple) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 27) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 27) to…

• John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet) (at AmazonSmile*)
• James T. Farrell (the Studs Lonigan series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man) (at AmazonSmile*) [I did Shaw’s Bury the Dead play in high school, which was quite controversial…it’s an anti-war fantasy from 1936, but our director included contemporary visual references]
• Ken Grimwood (Replay) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Peter De Vries (The Blood of the Lamb) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 26) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 26) to…

• Victor Hugo (Les Misérables) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Elizabeth George (the Inspector Lynley mysteries) (at AmazonSmile* )
• Theodore Sturgeon (More Than Human) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Sharyn McCrumb (The Unquiet Grave) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Camille Flammarion (Omega: The Last Days of the World) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 25) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 25) to…

• Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Karl May (the Winnetou series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Rex Gordon (First Through Time) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Emma Catherine Embury (AKA Ianthe) American Wildflowers in Their Native Haunts) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Campbell Black (AKA Campbell Armstrong (Brainfire) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal: books made into movies & TV shows

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal: books made into movies & TV shows

Today’s

Kindle Daily Deal (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)

is a really nice set of 48 titles (at time of writing) which have been made into books or TV shows.

I think this is supposed to be in honor of the Oscars (which are tonight), but since it includes TV shows, it feels a bit more Golden Globeish. 😉

Regardless, this is a good sale!

With the way TV is done now, I think many books adapt better as prestige TV shows than as movies…more time to develop the story and characters.

If I do have the choice to read a book before I see a visual adaptation, I prefer to do that. I’ve never had a book “spoil” a movie, but I have had the opposite happen.

Titles in this sale include:

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman | 4.4 stars out of 5 | 6,577 customer reviews at the time of writing | $2.99 (the basic concept of this reminds me a bit of Norman Corwin’s Descent of the Gods, which I first encountered as the Two Gods in Primetime episode of Norman Corwin Presents, but they are obviously very different)
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
• Beatutiful Boy by David Sheff
• Call Me By You Name by Andre Aciman
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (which has been made into more than one movie, TV series, radio plays, and more)
• The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald and David Nicholls
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
• Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings (which became Killing Eve)
• Pines by Blake Crouch
• LIfe of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks | 4.5 stars | 2000 reviews
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (available through Kindle Unlimited!
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving
• The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro & Daniel Krauss (this appears to be an adaptation of the screenplay)…good reviews)
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

That’s not all of them, but I’d be surprised if most people couldn’t find a book they liked just out of what I did list. Remember that you can also buy them at this discounted price and either delay the delivery date until the appropriate gift-giving occasion, or send it to yourself, print something out, and give it whenever you want.

Enjoy!

Oh, and if you’d like to help us predict the Oscars, there is still a smidgeon of time left…entries are due by noon Pacific today, Sunday 24 February.

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 24) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 24) to…

• Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Wilhelm Grimm (one of the Brothers Grimm) (Grimm’s Fairy Tales) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Judith Ortiz Cofer (The Latin Deli) (at AmazonSmile*)
• August Derleth (the Solar Pons series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) (at AmazonSmile*)
• George Moore (A Modern Lover) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Kent Haruf (The Tie That Binds) (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 23) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 23) to…

• Bernard Cornwell (Richard Sharpe series) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Francesca Simon (the Horrid Henry series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• W.E.B. DuBois (The Souls of Black Folks) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Mary Francis Shura (AKA Mary S. Craig, M.F. Craig, Meredith Hill, Mary Shura Craig, Alexis Hill…) (Chrystal Falls series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• César Aira (An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Eduard von Hartmann (Philosophy of the Unconscious) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Paul West (Rat Man of Paris) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 22) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 22) to…

• Joanna Russ (The Female Man) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Ishmael Reed (Flight to Canada) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Irving A. Greenfield (Ancient of Days) (at AmazonSmile*)
• William B. Seabrook (The Magic Island) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Morley Callaghan (The Loved and the Lost) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 21) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 21) to…

• Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Erma Bombeck (The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank) (at AmazonSmile*)
• David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) (at AmazonSmile*)
• W.H. Auden (The Age of Anxiety) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Owen King (Double Feature) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Richard A. Lupoff (Circumpolar!) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Clemence Dane (Regiment of Women) (at AmazonSmile*)

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Happy bookish birthdays (February 19) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (February 19) to…

• Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter) (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)
• Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Laurell K. Hamilton (the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Kay Boyle (The White Horses of Vienna) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Marissa Meyer (the Lunar Chronicles series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Lee Harding (The Fallen Spaceman) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Ryū Murakami (Almost Transparent Blue) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Terry Carr (editor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) (at AmazonSmile*)
• Donald F. Glut (The Dinosaur Scrapbook) (at AmazonSmile*)

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This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.