Welcome to the First Impressions Book to Movie Club!
First and foremost, this is a formal invitation to anyone to join us. Come one, Come all!
I have been thinking about trying to make a virtual book-to-movie club for awhile now. I don't have all of the specifics figured out yet, but I wanted to at least get started. So, here we are.
This is my idea of a "book club." I don't always like book clubs, they tend to read the same books, or at least the same types of books, over and over again or are filled with people who have silly ideas about literature. (Have you read THIS article by cracked.com? You should, you'll see what I mean.) I love talking about books, but I can't stand people finding crazy meanings in every - little - thing. (My DH will vouch for this. He loves to tell people how I got a "D" in my college Film class because I refused to accept that the "grass in Westerns" symbolized anything other than "the grass in Westerns.")
Now, I'm not saying that authors don't include messages beyond the text. I know the power of metaphors and symbolism. I just think we need to read for what it was written for, not project our own agendas into the writing. If you don't agree, you don't have to. I just wanted to make sure you understood where I was coming from while I thought about creating this book club. And, I'm not asking you to leave, quite the opposite! Stay! Share! Have some fun!
But I seemed to have digressed, let me try this again .... so, this is my idea of a book club. The premise is that everyone will read the book then at the end of the month we will watch the movie together. I know what you are thinking.
I'm not delusional.
I promise.
I don't mean we will all gather in some physical place to watch the movie. Duh. I mean I will announce a time and a day that I will watch the movie, and I encourage you to watch it at the same time as me. We can all live tweet our thoughts as we watch. We can talk about the differences between the books and the movies, or what we liked about the movie or book, or, well, anything really.
What do you think? Are you interested?
If you are, and I'm assuming you must be since you've made it this far, welcome to our first "meeting."
Our first book will be Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austin (buy) or as it was originally titled, First Impressions. See what I did there? Witty, right? P&P is a classic romantic tale that everyone should read. Just to get this out in the open, we will be watching the 2005 version (with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen). While I would love to encourage everyone to watch the BBC version starring Colin Firth, I understand that it 5 and a half hours long and that is a bit of a commitment. (But, watch it if you have the time. It is amazing.)
We will read it over the month of May, then I will announce a time to watch and tweet along.
Next month, we will read Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (buy). I wanted to mention this now, because from May 7th - May 14th audiobooksync.com will offer the audio book for free. So make sure you get a your free audio book!
As I just wanted to get things going, I chose the first two books. But I am open to suggestions, comment below if you have any!
The only rule is that the book must have been made into a movie -- this can include new movies that are being released, though we will have to develop a format for in theater movies if that were to come up. Any ideas?
I think that is enough for now. I'll get to reading P&P and check in from time to time.
Happy Reading!
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