Readers and Breeders: July 2011

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Movies made from books that we have read.

I was noticing that a lot of the stories that we have read over the last year have been made in to movies. I thought that I would provide links to the films here and perhaps we could check some of them out together.

The Help

http://thehelpmovie.com/us/

Comes out on August 10th

Skeeter played by Emma Stone
Abileeen played by Viola Davis
Minny played by Octavia Spencer
Hilly played by Bryce Dallas Howard
Celia played by Jessica Chastain

Sarah's Key
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1668200/

Was in theaters 2010, DVD release date currently unknown

Kristen Scott Thomas stars

The Kite Runner
http://www.kiterunnermovie.com/

Starring Khalid Abdalla

Available now on DVD

The Glass Castle
It looks there is a development deal on this book. Hopefully a movie will be in the not too distant future!

Water for Elephants
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067583/

Starring Robert Pattison and Reese Witherspoon

Released in April 2011. DVD release date unknown.

Ideas for possible upcoming titles to read! Leave suggestions here please!

Outliers by Gladwell
Life WIthout Limbs by Nick Vujicic
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Any Chua
Little bee by Chris Cleave
Sun Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez,
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegu
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck,
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger.

2012 Monthly Book Club Tips to think on!

taken from: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/roundtable/tips.asp

March

As this is Women's History Month, think about reading a biography that celebrates a famous female.

Write a list of books that have meant something to you as a woman and share it with your fellow book club members.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, think about reading something from an Irish author or something about Irish history.

Take a blank book and fill in the pages with some of your group's favorite recipes from your meetings. It will be another way of charting your group's "history."

February

In honor of Black History Month, share lists of titles from some of your favorite African-American authors.

Since winter can be cold and blustery in so much of the country, think about reading a title set in a warm place or with a summer theme to think about warmer, carefree summer days.

No matter how you feel about it, Valentine's Day invades our world in February. With that in mind we have collected five titles with "Red" in their titles and five titles with "Love" in their titles that you might want to explore.
January

Have each member of the group make a yearlong reading resolution. This can be something like vowing to read new authors or explore a new genre. Write these down and re-visit them in December to see how many have been kept!

Empower yourself for the new year by reading a biography of someone you admire and then share something you never knew about that person with your group.

Share your favorite title about self-improvement with members of your group.

Each month, have each member bring a book that he or she has read beyond the group's book club selection. Tell other club members about it in a couple of lines. Once you go around the room sharing your selections, think how many books you will have learned about.