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127 Hours in November |
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 The movie trailer for filmmaker Danny Boyle's 127 Hours kept me on the edge of my seat and holding my breath. Boyle, who won an Oscar for his direction of Slumdog Millionaire, brings the story of Aron Ralston, mountain climber and canyoneer, to the screen this November. Ralston recounts his story of being trapped by a boulder in a Utah canyon for five days in Between a Rock and a Hard Place; he was only able to escape by amputating his lower right arm with a dull knife. Hear Ralston talk about his experience in this NYT video interview. There is plenty of time to read the book before the film is released; those who have already read it might enjoy Touching the Void by Joe Simpson or Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales.
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Are you a re-reader? |
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Are there some books that are just so savory you return to them again and again, re-reading all or part? If so, you are not alone. Check out a list of "more than once" titles compiled by LibraryThing users here. GoodReads also has a list here. Both are heavy on the Harry Potter, Twilight series, and the classics. |
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Packing for Mars |
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  Author Mary Roach has a knack for making learning perversely entertaining, as evidenced by the popularity of her nonfiction titles that have taken up the topics of cadavers, the afterlife, sex, and now space travel. While you are waiting for your copy of her newest, Packing for Mars, you could catch up on her previous titles - Stiff, Spook, and Bonk. Her website is a great preview for her sense of humor, as is the book trailer produced by her publisher called Space Hygiene and the People who Stopped Bathing, as is her presentation for this year's BEA Author Breakfast hosted by Jon Stewart (jump ahead to about 31:00 for Mary).
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Never Let Me Go |
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 Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting sixth novel comes to the big screen on September 15 with the release of Never Let Me Go, a film whose cast includes Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield as three doomed students at an eerie British boarding school. Charlotte Rampling plays the school's stern headmistress. The 1993 movie version of another Ishiguro novel, The Remains of the Day, garnered eight Oscars, which has led to high expectations for this latest adaptation of his work. To set the stage, check out Never Let Me Go or one of the other novels by this acclaimed writer, who was born in Japan but raised in England, where he has received many awards for his atmospheric and finely nuanced fiction.
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Books into Film |
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 Before it won the Pulitzer last year, actress Frances McDormand optioned the novel Olive Kitteridge for a possible HBO series where she would not only act as producer but also play the leading role (read deadline.com article). In Elizabeth Strout's interconnected stories, Olive, a retired seventh-grade math teacher, reviews her marriage and relationships (with son and residents of the small coastal Maine fishing village where she lives), and readers touch her imperfections and misgivings as well as her compassion and intelligence. McDormand is also working on a large screen adaptation of Laura Lippman’s Every Secret Thing, with Diane Lane playing homicide detective Nancy Porter.
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