Oh good, now I have a full summer reading list. Just read two books that are the best ones I've read in a year, the first got me so engrossed I completely neglected everything else until I finished it and the second, well, it's just the sweetest little story. Me before you by JoJo Mayes An unconventional love story The art of racing in the rain: my life as a dog by Garth Stein If you own a dog this is a "must read", if you enjoy family stories this is highly enjoyable..

Angelina bought the rights to 6 of Patricia Cornwell's books a year or so ago...then I read in one of the rag trades that she's actually gonna play Kay Scarpetta...She is sooo not Kay Scarpetta... I can't wait to send hubster to the Library...I went on line and reserved a bunch of Plum books and he'll go pick them up for me since I'm not my usual fast walkin self! I'll reserve my comments for Heigl playing Plum till I read some of the books... I would love to see Grafton's book made into some movies...I love Kinsey and I want to see her boat/apartment come to life! I picture Peter Falk playing her landlord! He plays a good ole man! I agree that Hillary Swank would make a great Kinsey!

I've read the Grafton books and have enjoyed them as well as the Stephanie Plum novels. I really like the Plum novels as books on tape for when DH and I are making a car trip...they are funny and lively and yet mindless enough to go with vacationing. We both enjoy them. I think the key is to space them with time and other books between readings so you don't tire of them. I just finished Pillars of the Earth which I enjoyed...like a modern day Les Mis where characters and coincidences keep happening....someone miraculously shows up who you haven't heard from in 300 pages...that kind of thing. But it was good. I've just started Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See...it is certainly popular as I was #14 on the library's hold list.

It's rarely that movie is as good as a book but sometimes good adaptations happen-and I tend to remember them all since happens not often For example "Girl With a Dragon Tatoo" i liked more as a movie..the non-American version. But I started with a movie, that probably influences things. "The Joy Luck Club" managed to be a great adaptation of the book-and I actually read the book several yeas before watching the movie Mini series of "Pride and Predjudice" are nice adaptation while the movie with Keira Knightly was something I kinda dismissed because to me that wasn't a good adaptation at all. Still, I prefer the book of course. The former Soviet Union movies based on "Sherlock Holmes" are considered the best in all the adaptations of Sherlck Holmes ever made, and won the prize as such-and I totally agree. Of course they filmed just several stories but did it very well. "Alias Grace" did a very fine job; but let me tell you the book is finer...reading it now. Now some books are probably too much of a challenge to ever be interpreted on the screen..I haven't seen one good "Wuthering Heights"..and I really tried. I haven't seen a "Lolita" that comes even close to the book itself. I don't think one can adapt Nabokov successfully. Too many things will go missing. His language is too good and too elusive for that. No Dostoevsky or Tolstoy either,,of course I didn't watch all of these..but whatever I started I just turned off. Very fast. As I was totally obsessed with "Les Miserables" since age 8 (to the point I tried to steal a little bun from a bakery-and succedeed-but that was my first and last attempt of stealing lol..more than I can handle..it was a tiny 3 kopeiks bun but nevertheless)-I tried to watch as many adaptations as possible. Some I enjoyed; but no they don't measure to the book. I couldn't appreciate long passages about monasteries, sewer, Parisian jargon, the battle of Waterloo etc when I was a little girl..but now I find these much more interesting. As it was when I read Fowles "The Magus"..at twenty I was so much into story..and the stories within the story I went through too quick..wars and all.. But now I understand these are actually the best ones there..or maybe they are to me now, since I became older. Generally I think the more complex and well written the book is the harder it will be to translate it I do look forward to adaptations that don't exist yet, or exist but I haven't seen them yet like Löwensköld trilogy by Selma Lagerlöf'..I think there can be a huge potential of making a great movie out of it.. Steven King is an example of an author whose books can be translated very well into visuals. PS remembered one more adatation that was good .."The Name of the Rose". They cut a lot out of it obviously..still, a good movie