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message 1: by Winter, Group Reads (last edited Apr 02, 2019 02:45AM) (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments Participants:

Alicja - 0/6
Amanda - 0/3
Anna - 0/6
Anne - 2/3
Aubrey - 1/4
Brittany - 2/5
Brynja - 0/6
Cassie - 1/7
Chafic - 0/7
Cindy III - 0/3
Corey - 0/2
Consuelo - 0/3
Den - 0/2
Elaine - 0/4
Franci - 0/5
Hope - 0/2
Jane - 0/2
Jem - 0/3
Jess - 0/TBD
Jessica - 0/10
Jill - 0/6
Jordynn - 0/2
Julie - 0/5
Katherine - 0/3
Kim - 0/3
Kristin - 1/3
Maris - 2/3
matilde - 0/3
Meaghan - 0/5
Monica - 0/3
Morgan - 0/8
Moriah - 0/3
Nóri - 0/15
Octothorpe Reader Leora K - 0/2
Robyn - 0/3
Ryder - 0/2
Savannah - 1/3
Shreeram - 0/24
Susan - 0/4
Tahera - 0/2

Completed:

Carmen - 9/9
Chalmation - 2/2
chan - 3/3
Clare - 3/3
Crystal - 2/2
Diane - 3/3
Elina - 5/5
James - 3/3
Megan - 6/5
Michelle - 2/2
oshizu - 3/3
Rebecca - 3/3
Rina - 5/5
Sarah - 2/2
SarahKat - 3/3
TerryJane - 6/6
Tina - 2/2


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

BEST OF WHAT'S TO COME: BOOK ADAPTATIONS OF 2019
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019


Read/Goal - 0/6


message 3: by Megan (last edited Mar 20, 2019 07:07PM) (new)

Megan (lahairoi) | 7470 comments I'm in for five!

1. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn - completed January 2019
2. Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler - completed January 2019
3. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - completed February 2019
4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple - completed February 2019
5. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - completed March 2019
6. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie - completed March 2019

6/5 - challenge completed!


message 5: by oshizu (last edited Mar 13, 2019 08:07AM) (new)

oshizu | 5762 comments Please sign me up for 3 books.

Progress: 3/3

Books to film:
✔️1. Piercing (Ryū Murakami)
✔️2. The Good Liar Nicholas Searle)
✔️3. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)


message 6: by Brittany (last edited Jan 25, 2019 05:36AM) (new)


message 7: by matilde (new)

matilde (matiswonderland) I´m in for 3!

1.
2.
3.

0/3


message 8: by Crystal (last edited Mar 14, 2019 09:26PM) (new)


message 9: by Tahera (new)

Tahera | 98 comments I am in for 2.
0/2


message 10: by Shreeram (new)

Shreeram Bhattarai | 1 comments I am in for 24 books


message 11: by Diane (last edited Mar 27, 2019 06:19AM) (new)


message 12: by Jordynn (new)

Jordynn Fraser | 190 comments I'm in for 2

Catch-22
Death on the Nile

0/2


message 13: by Ryder (new)

Ryder (sadlynotwinona) | 2 comments I'll sign up for two!
0/2


message 14: by Consuelo (last edited Dec 29, 2018 11:50AM) (new)


message 15: by Nóri (new)

Nóri | 79 comments I'm in for 15!

0/15


message 16: by Winter, Group Reads (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments All added. Welcome ^^


message 17: by Chalmation (last edited Mar 16, 2019 03:59PM) (new)

Chalmation | 3730 comments I'm in for 2.

2/2
Complete

The Call of the Wild Release date 12/25/2019
The Turn of the Screw Release date 2019 per the 1st link under Resources above. It has since been changed to 2020 but since it was on that list when this challenge started I'm still counting it.


message 18: by Chafic (new)

Chafic (Rello) (irrell) | 46 comments I'm in for 7

0/7

I'll keep track in my member's corner:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 19: by chan (last edited Dec 30, 2018 05:48AM) (new)

chan (horizonous) Quick question: Do book adaptations with a 2019 release date for the region where I live in count, even though they have already been released in other places in 2018?


message 20: by Winter, Group Reads (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments chan wrote: "Quick question: Do book adaptations with a 2019 release date for the region where I live in count, even though they have already been released in other places in 2018?"

I would say yes :)


message 21: by Winter, Group Reads (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments Chafic wrote: "I'm in for 7

0/7

I'll keep track in my member's corner:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."


Welcome :) I track everything in my corner too. Just make sure to let me know how many you have read so I can add it to the list.


message 22: by Winter, Group Reads (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments Chafic wrote: "I'm in for 7

0/7

I'll keep track in my member's corner:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."


Welcome :) I track everything in my corner too. Just make sure to let me know how many you have read so I can add it to the list.


message 23: by chan (last edited Mar 31, 2019 09:10AM) (new)

chan (horizonous) I'd like to join with 3 books.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
the books i read [3/3]
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng () ★★☆☆☆
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin () ★★☆☆☆
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath () ★★☆☆☆


message 25: by Moriah (last edited Jan 05, 2019 11:40AM) (new)

Moriah (kma0012) I'll read three:

1/3

1. Where'd you go, Bernadette
2. Good Omens
3. Artemis Fowl


message 26: by Kim (new)

Kim | 10 comments I am in for 0/3

1. Little Women
2. The Nightingale
3. Good Omens


message 27: by Julie (new)

Julie Farmer | 790 comments I'm in for 5!

0/5


message 28: by Rina (last edited Mar 23, 2019 02:05AM) (new)

Rina (rina_p) | 179 comments Thanks for leading the challenge, Winter. I'd like to join with 5 books please.

BEST OF WHAT'S TO COME: BOOK ADAPTATIONS OF 2019
Duration: January 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019


Progress: 5/5 (Completed)

1 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette (movie)
2 - Artemis Fowl (movie)
3 - The Knife of Never Letting Go (movie)
4 - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (TV series, Amazon Prime)
5- How to Train Your Dragon (movie)


message 29: by Brynja (last edited Jan 04, 2019 12:43PM) (new)

Brynja (brynja1234) I'm in for 6 books :)

Progress: 0/6

Ideas:
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (book -> movie)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (book -> movie)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (book -> TV-series)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (book -> movie)
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven (book -> movie)
The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard (book -> TV-series)
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook (book -> movie)
Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer by Stephen G. Michaud (book -> docuseries)


message 30: by Robyn (new)

Robyn | -15 comments Put me down for 3 please! My list will follow tonight once I map out my choices :)


message 31: by Franci (new)

Franci (francina) 0/5


message 32: by Becs (last edited Feb 23, 2019 05:59AM) (new)

Becs (becsreading) I'm in for 3 books :)

Progress: 2 / 3

1. The Nightingale
2. The Woman in the Window
3. The Underground Railroad


message 33: by Brittany (new)

Brittany Morrison | 421 comments update to message #8

1/5


message 35: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 526 comments I'm in for 3

0/3


message 36: by Winter, Group Reads (new)

Winter (winter9) | 4998 comments Updated. Welcome everyone! :)


message 37: by Becs (new)

Becs (becsreading) Update to message 34: 1 / 3


message 38: by Brittany (last edited Jan 02, 2019 03:43PM) (new)

Brittany Morrison | 421 comments If anyone is into true crime I just saw that Netflix is putting out a docuseries end of this month based on Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer. I hadn’t seen it on any other lists so I wanted to let y’all know in case anybody else was into this kind of stuff.


message 39: by Anne ✨ (last edited Mar 19, 2019 12:39PM) (new)

Anne ✨ Finds Joy (annefindsjoy) I'll start at 3 and see how it goes

2/3

✔ 1. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 01/12/19
(inspiration for the musical Cats, and now the movie Cats coming out Dec 2019)
✔ 2.The Sisters Brothers 03/19/19
3.


message 40: by [deleted user] (last edited Mar 15, 2019 04:32PM) (new)

Please sign me up for two.

2/2
1. The Good Liar **
2. The Nightingale ****


message 41: by Carmen (last edited Mar 11, 2019 10:10AM) (new)

Carmen | 8125 comments Hola!
I'm in for 12 11 10 9

TOTAL: 9/9
✔1. Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1) by Joseph Heller
✔2. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
✔3. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
✔4. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
✔5. El jilguero by Donna Tartt
✔6. The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion
✔7. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
✔8. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
✔9. El arte de conducir bajo la lluvia  by Garth Stein


message 42: by Jill (new)

Jill Frick (jillyfay) | 58 comments 0/6

I’d like join with 6 books.


message 43: by SarahKat, Buddy Reads (new)


message 44: by Maris (last edited Mar 26, 2019 05:21AM) (new)

Maris (maristocratic) | 147 comments I'll sign up for 3, please! :)

2/3

1. Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1 ★★★
2. The Woman in the Window ★★★★
3.

Possible reads:
The Sun Is Also a Star
All the Bright Places
The Art of Racing in the Rain


message 45: by Michelle (last edited Feb 09, 2019 11:40PM) (new)

Michelle (spookiieej) | 422 comments I'll join for 2 books! 2/2

Read: The Rosie Project & Artemis Fowl


message 46: by Jem (last edited Jan 04, 2019 11:35AM) (new)

Jem Sopp | 7 comments I'll sign up for 3!

1) All the Bright Places
2) Where'd You Go Bernadette
3) The Woman in the Window


message 47: by Elaine (new)

Elaine | 162 comments Best of What's to Come: Book Adaptations of 2019

Challege Accepted: January 1, 2019
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: March 31, 2019

Goal: 4 books
Read so far: 0/4
Possible Reads Include:
1. Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Mar. Buddy Read)
2. Five Feet Apart
3. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
4. The Sun Is Also a Star (Feb. Buddy Read)
5. The Rosie Project
6. The Goldfinch
7. The Good Liar
8. The Woman in the Window


message 48: by TerryJane, Challenges (last edited Feb 28, 2019 12:43PM) (new)


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