Happy reading and viewing
| A Prayer for Owen Meany, Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp – John Irving |
| A Widow for One Year – (the first third became The Door in the Floor) – John Irving |
| And the Band Played on – Randy Schilts |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote |
| Brokeback Mountain – short story by Annie Proulx |
| Circle of Friends – Maeve Binchy |
| Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell |
| Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier |
| David Copperfield – Charles Dickens |
| Election – Tom Perrotta |
| Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence – Doris Pilkington – The Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| Gone Baby Gone – Dennis Lehane |
| Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell |
| Hawaii – James Michener |
| I Claudius – Robert Graves |
| I Robot – Isaac Asimov |
| In Cold Blood – Truman Capote |
| Jeeves and Wooster Books that were adapted for TV – P. G. Wodehouse – |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne |
| Les Miserables – Victor Hugo |
| Midsomer Murders – Caroline Graham |
| Nobody’s Fool, Empire Falls – Richard Russo |
| Pygmalion – My Fair Lady – George Bernard Shaw |
| Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay |
| The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler |
| The Blind Side – Michael Lewis |
| The Children of Men – P. D. James |
| The Constant Gardener – John LaCarre |
| The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Amim |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson |
| The Life of Pi – Yann Martel |
| The Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien |
| The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri |
| The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro |
| The Sound of Music – based on the autobiography of Maria Von Trapp |
| The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum |
| Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston |
| To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee |
| Topper – Thorne Smith |
| Wicked – Gregory Maguire |
About “The Sound of Music” – I looked up the book. It is called ” The Story of the von Trapp Family Singers” by Maria von Trapp and was first published in 1945 (so the movie was an adaptation).
We also discussed “Out of Africa” by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), which was quite different from the book.
And we also mentioned The Orchid Thief which had the most unusual treatment – It was called Adaptation and was about a writer attempting to write an adaptation of that book and finding it impossible – it just got stranger from there.
I’d just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting and came away with a wonderful list of books to read & movies to see (plus some for a second time). I love the idea of keeping the monthly category broadly defined and look forward to expanding my knowledge on the subject of poems and poets next month.
nice to have you in the group – good to hear you might come back
Dottie MacKeen dotmac@verizon.net
I’ll definitely be back and Mary McCabe will probably be joining as well.
Nancy Sanderson ncsander@aol.com
I also enjoyed the meeting! I am already thinking about what poet I want to read for next month…
Off topic, but I did mention this at the end of our meeting. Looked it up when I got home to get the author/”editor” info: The Silent Miaow : a manual for kittens, strays and homeless cats / translated from the feline and edited by Paul W. Gallico ; picture story by Suzanne Szasz. Not a movie, but a very funny light read.
I didn’t post it because it was off topic but I had found a copy on Half.Com and ordered it. I’ll bring it to the next meeting to share.