Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

DURATION: July 1st, 2010 - December 31, 2010
The idea of this challenge is to read 10 books that have been turned into movies. You have until the end of this year to complete it. You can post the list at any time but reading starts July 1st.

1. You are allowed one reread (I am making this rule with Eclipse in mind for those that want to reread it before seeing the movie)
2. You are allowed up to 2 out of genre books. Try to have the rest of your books be mostly romance. This IS a ROMANCE group after all :)
3. They can be books that you have seen the movie for or ones that you haven't.
4. You can post as you go or post ahead of time.
You can also post a list of more than 10 and pick and choose or have a list of alternates.
5. The MOVIE could be one that isn't realeased yet but is coming out sometime soon or one that has already been released.
EDIT: 6. By request of members of the group you are allowed up to 2 TV show books. (Sookie, Vampire Diaries etc.) This is in addition to 2 out of genre books allowed. You can even make one or both of these your out of genre pics. I doubt I will for my list though.
7. Books that spin off from a book that became a movie such as The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella will count as well.

This post was inspired from an email I got from Amazon. Here are the examples of books that would qualify that they sent me:

"Robin Hood" by David B. Coe
"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
"The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
"Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
"The Extra Man" by Jonathan Ames
"The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks
"The Associate" by John Grisham
"The Ghost Writer" by Robert Harris
"Youth in Revolt" by C.D. Payne

I never made a challenge before and I hope I am doing this right. If not feel free to correct me!

HAVE FUN!

what about books into TV shows? i.e. Lipstick Jungle or the Sookie series!

I'm going to try this one and I make my list later.

Here is my list:

BOOKS INTO MOVIES CHALLENGE
July 1st, 2010 - December 31st, 2010
*1. The Notebook by Nicolas Sparks
*2. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Gone With the Wind
5. Dracula by Bram Stoker
6. Pride and Prejudice
*7. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
RE-READ (after the movie comes out to compare/refresh my brain lol)
8.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
OUT OF GENRE
9. The Fellowship of the Ring (very little romance although there is SOME)
*10. The Outsiders

TO READ


The * is just for me. That means they are in paper not on my Kindle. I try to alternate between the 2 to use up some of my paper TBRs :-P
READ

CURRENTLY READING

Will the participants be required to watch the movies, too, or just simply read the books?

I'll join in and post as I go.

OH WOW! This sounds like fun!

A couple more suggestions

PS, I Love You
The Joy Luck Club
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Shining
Kiss of the Spider Woman

My mom read PS I Love You and said it is nothing like the movie.

Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "what about books into TV shows? i.e. Lipstick Jungle or the Sookie series!"

We could do a separate one for TV if anyone is interested. I was thinking aside from Sookie/True Blood, that there wouldn't be nearly as many for the TV category. What does everyone else think?

Yz the Whyz wrote: "Will the participants be required to watch the movies, too, or just simply read the books?"

We are not required to watch the movies too but I think many of us may want to for comparison.

vampire diaries - maybe make that a you can have up to 2 books into tv shows...as an alternative...

Awesomevegan wrote: "Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "what about books into TV shows? i.e. Lipstick Jungle or the Sookie series!"

We could do a separate one for TV if anyone is interested. I was thinki..."

Here are some GR lists to help you guys out:

Best book to movie interpretation

Books Made into Movies

The Book Was Better Than The Movie

The Movie was BETTER than the Book

there are a bunch of Nora Robert's and Jodi Picoult's books that have been made into movies as well

Laura Lulu wrote: "Here are some GR lists to help you guys out:

Best book to movie interpretation

Books Made into Movies

The Book Was Better Than The Movie

The Movie was BETTER than the Book"

Thank you so much! I was hoping people knew of good lists to help out :)

You're welcome. :) And some of those lists have a ton of books on them. I think one had over 400 books listed. Lots to choose from. :)

☪☠Lizz☠☪ wrote: "My mom read PS I Love You and said it is nothing like the movie."

PS I love the novel is 100 times better than the movie.

You guys are kiiling me with these challenges!!!

I've got tons of books that are now movies, so I'm in.

Books into Movies

1st July to 31st December

0/10

1) The Princess Bride by William Goldman
2) A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
3) Chocolat by Joanne Harris
4) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
5) PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
6) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
7) The Pact by Jodi Picoult (TV Movie)
8) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Out of Genre
9) The Godfather by Mario Puzo
10) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Read

Jackie wrote: "☪☠Lizz☠☪ wrote: "My mom read PS I Love You and said it is nothing like the movie."

PS I love the novel is 100 times better than the movie."

My mom liked the book better then the movie and i'm going to read it soon

I'm going to have to think about my list

Laura Lulu wrote: "Here are some GR lists to help you guys out:

Best book to movie interpretation

Books Made into Movies

The Book Was Better Than The Movie

The Movie was BETTER than the Book"

Thanks

ye GODS the ideas that my groups come up with.

Ok, here's a few that I have read/seen since I'm not going to do this challenge. July is just too crazy to read a book AND watch the movie (and wresting the tv controls from my husband is not easy either.)

The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean

Where Eagles Dare again by MacLean

well, actually, lets just forget listing all of MacLean's books that have been turned into movies--since there's about 8 or 9 or 10 . . .

Now, here's one for "The Least Like the Book its Possible to BE" award

The Beast Master by Andre Norton and the movie AND TV series of the same name. Taking a SciFi book and turning it into a sword and sorcery movie/tv series. . . Just totally blew my mind.

And who can forget The Bourne Identityby Robert Ludlum. Someone didn't get past the first 2 sentences of the back blurb for THIS series. Sorry, but the books were a thousand times better.

Thanks everyone! I am glad you like my challenge idea. It has probably been done before. Ironically even though I started this, I don't have my full list made yet LOL. :)

Books Into Movies
July 1st 2010 - December 31st 2010

0/10 completed

1. PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

4. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

5. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

6. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Out of Genre

9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Ya know--I forgot one of the biggest "fantasy" novels turned into a movie of all time.

Jaws by Peter Benchley. Total fantasy (and can we say rip off of Moby Dick--which also made it to the Big Screen) but the book was just ssooo much better than the movie. Except for the shark. Man, they did a GREAT job with that shark.

I have several books sitting beside me waiting to be read that would fit this challenge so I'm in.
Thanks for the challenge Awesomevegan!

1 - The English Patient
2 - The Time Traveler's Wife
3 - Jane Eyre
4 - Message in a Bottle
5 - The Great Gatsby
6 - Twilight
7 - Atonement
8 - PS, I Love You
9 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10- Journey to the Centre of the Earth

if you wanna do classics as well, most jane austen books have been turned into movies/ made for tv movies...as well as some other older ones

ok im just coming in.. lol lets see if i can do this

1-the lovely bones (is that romance?)
2-message in a bottle
3-dear john
4-the notebook
5-ps i love you
6-eclipse
7-jurassic park (not romance i know)
8-where the heart is
9-the wonderful wizard of oz (is that romance?)
10-the other sister (i think thats what it was called)

ok.. did i do it right? lol

the lovely bones isn't a romance, but a really good book - i read it for a May challenge

oh.. well dang i thought there was some in it.. ok ill find another one lol.. these are all ones ive alrady read since june started haha

no...if anything about its about the disolution of a marriage...but still a really good read - I highly recommend!

Ann aka Iftcan wrote: "Ya know--I forgot one of the biggest "fantasy" novels turned into a movie of all time.

Jaws by Peter Benchley. Total fantasy (and can we say rip off of Moby Dick--w..."

Have to disagree with you. I thought the movie was much better. The affair in the book between the sheriff's wife and the oceanographer just ruined the book for me and had nothing to do with the plot.

Kaila wrote: "oh.. well dang i thought there was some in it.. ok ill find another one lol.. these are all ones ive alrady read since june started haha"

Remember, you're allowed two non-romance genre reads for this and you could use that book for one of those.

Personally I thought there was a romance in The Lovely Bones (in fact there were a couple Susie and Ray for one, which had a wonderful ending, susies sister and her boyfriend).

The romances were secondary of course to the whole breaking apart of the family, but they were there.

I hope I am not making things too difficult with the 2 non-romance reads rule! I decided to put that in here because I figured the discussions would follow the theme of the group more. I hope I didn't confuse anyone. Remember you can do ALL romance too if you want. You don't HAVE to read 2 non-romance books. You are allowed up to 2 though. I hope that makes sense. :)

Great idea for a challenge! Picking the books will be really fun.

I am getting a list together and thought it might help if we could have a Books turned into a Made for TV movie spot for all the Life Time and Hallmark movies out there. Here is the link to the list http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/58... .

If you know of any please add them. I started it with some I know of even though I haven't read the books yet. This may help some of us find more romances.

other jodi picoult ones:

The Tenth Circle
My Sister's Keeper
Plain Truth

I'd have to look up the Nora Roberts ones but I know
Northern Lights is one

Thanks Charlotte for jumping in and adding to the list. I think this will help.

Books into Movies Challenge (July - December 2010):

1. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
2. Emma - Jane Austen
3. Dracula - Bram Stoker
4. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
5. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
6. Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause
7. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
8. PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
9. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
10. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

Rebecca wrote: "Thanks Charlotte for jumping in and adding to the list. I think this will help."

No problem. I had to add The Thorn Birds - I loved that mini series (totally fell in love with Richard Chamberlain in my teenage years because of it). Hopefully I'll read the book soon, but it scares me because it's huge!!!

This sounds like fun. I'll post the rest when I figure them out

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Bridges of Madison County
3. Rebecca
4. Stardust
5. Howl's Moving Castle
6. Flowers for Algernon
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. The Adventures of Robin Hood
9.
10.

Charlotte (Buried in Books) wrote: No problem. I had to add The Thorn Birds - I loved that mini series (totally fell in love with Richard Chamberlain in my teenage years because of it). Hopefully I'll read the book soon, but it scares me because it's huge!!!

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Prepare lots of tissues if you are planning to read. Plenty of heartbreak in that book.

Ooh. This sounds like fun. I have a goodreads shelf called 'seen the movie', so I will start by looking there :)

1. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
2. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
3. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
4. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
5. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
6. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
7. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
8. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
9. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
10. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Great challenge! It gives me a reason to read some books I've been meaning to read. For the Roses is my alternate read in the event I just can't get into one of the others for whatever reason. I read it a while ago, and it has been so long it would be like reading it for the first time all over again.

Sound's like fun. I'll post my list later.

I'm in, Love this challenge.

I'll post my list as I go:

1) Eclipse, Movie's coming out next week.
2) Beastly
3) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
4) The Lightning Thief


OOPS, I spike the ONLY ONE re-read.

Can't I make the Princess Bride count, I just finish it 3 days ago? :(

Wow this one sounds like fun. I'll have to look around and shuffle a list together. Yay!

Penny wrote: "I'm in, Love this challenge.

I'll post my list as I go:

1) Eclipse, Movie's coming out next week.
2)

OOPS, I spike the ONLY ONE re-read.

Can't I make the Princess Bride count, I j..."

Sorry Penney, the challenge doesn't start until 1st July.