Adaptations In the News
- Tom Hanks has been cast as Abraham Lincoln in the live-action/stop-motion hybrid film adaptation of Lincoln in the Bardo.
- Aimee Lou Wood is starring in a new TV adaptation of Jane Eyre.
- The Haunting of Alejandra is being developed into a limited series for Hulu.
- Warner Brothers is working on a Game of Thrones movie.
- M.L. Rio’s If We Were Villains is being adapted for TV.
- Here’s a first look at Sally Field in the upcoming adaptation of Remarkably Bright Creatures.
- Billie Eilish is in talks to make her acting debut in the upcoming film adaptation of The Bell Jar.
- Tessa Thompson is set to star in a film version of Katie Kitamura’s A Separation.
- Daisy Edgar Jones will star in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
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Bookish Curiosities & Miscellaneous
- ThriftBooks is launching a 500 Billion Page reading challenge.
- Reading challenges aren’t homework — they’re games!
- But on the flip side: what we lose when we gamify reading.
- What happens if you ditch your smartphone for a month? Well, according to the author, “After about a week, I wasn’t reaching for my phone and I had the patience to read.” Sounds…delightful!
- The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban’s education ban.
- Goodreads has finally launched a DNF shelf for users.
- LitHub reports from an all-male book club.
- Music writers for The Guardian talk about the literature they’ve discovered through pop music.
- The erosion of deep reading weakens our capacity to grasp complex ideas, or, Andrew Tate doesn’t get the point of books.
- Why tweens stop reading, and how to get them back into books.
- There’s no secret hack to getting yourself back into reading deeply, but this article may help.
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