Book Adaptations of 2022 & 2023!!

Hi and hello 🙂

My eyeballs hurt. I recognise that this is an odd way to start a blog post but I swear it’s related. I’m pretty sure this current ailment is because of spending too much time staring at screens, even with my glasses on, so it’s pretty ironic that I’m here today to talk about my plans to stare at more screens.

I’m pegging the 2020’s as the decade of the book adaptations and I’m loving it. Sure we’re living through a pandemic, we’ve got political unrest all over the world and the economy is in shambles BUT we get to watch books come to life. Small mercies.

Today I’m going to be talking about the book adaptations! We’re going to start by looking towards the future at the adaptations I’m super excited for and then work our way backwards to the ones I watched (… or at least started) last year.

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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I am so excited about this TV show. So excited, in fact, that I just can’t bring myself to watch the trailer or listen to Regret Me, the first song that has been released. Does anybody else get so overwhelmed with excitement that they push off doing/reading/watching the thing they’re excited for in the first place? I do this all the time and it’s ruining my life.

Despite not having watched the trailer, I have seen the promo and behind the scenes pics so I am so ready for the revival of 70’s rock ‘n’ roll and that kind of boho chic look. The entire cast looks phenomenal but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I was most looking forward to seeing Sam Claflin, who really hasn’t let us down in a book-adaptation so far, as Billy and Riley Keough as Daisy.

The chances of Aurora being a top album on my Spotify wrapped is a very real possibility this year and I will not regret a single thing about it.

Sticking with TJR but switching books … I know there’s going to be an Evelyn Hugo adaptation eventually. It’s not included in this list because I found nothing to suggest it was coming out this year but this is me expressing my excitement just in case. It still irks me that Daisy Jones is a TV show and Evelyn Hugo is a movie – that should be swapped or they should both be TV shows.

ALSO Malibu Rising is getting an adaptation and yet all three of these books are being adapted by different studios. Is that not the most infuriating thing!? I’d laugh if they managed to get the same actor for Mick Riva in all three though.

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What I’ve Been Watching … #8

Hello. I am tired.

My study abroad uni has this cool thing where on a random day in the fall semester they cancel classes and everyone goes to the lake for the day.

The down side to this is, despite the busses not leaving til 10am, they wake everyone up at 5am. Add a day in the sun, kayaking and swimming, to the 5am wake up call and me still having homework to do for tomorrow’s classes, what ends up happening is me being exhausted.

My eyes are literally closing as I’m writing this and all I want to do is curl up in bed … but my roommate has friends over watching a movie and I didn’t have the social capacity to deal with new people right now.

And so here I am wrapping up everything I’ve been watching recently. I’ve not done one of these in a while and I’ve watched a lot so I’m just gonna jump right into it.

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Bullet Train

You ever read a book or watch a movie that scratches an itch inside your brain you didn’t know you had? That’s how this movie made me feel.

The Book Adaptations Tag 🎬

Hello and howdy 🤠

Big things are happening when it comes to book-adaptations! Heartstopper has become a worldwide sensation, Shadow & Bone season 2 is filming, the Percy Jackson trio casting has been announced and they are perfection, and there’s so much more!!

All very exciting so it seems like there’s no better time then now to do the Book Adaptations Tag which I was tagged to do by Madeline @ The Bookish Mutant. Thank you Madeline!!

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What is the last book adaptation movie you saw?

Not a movie, but I feel like a lot of books are being adapted into TV shows more then movies nowadays so we’re couting. Of course the last book adaption I watched was Hearstopper.

I watched this show in one morning on the day it was released and am still talking and thinking about it. I talked about it in a dedicated post but I’ll repeat it here: THIS IS HOW YOU ADAPT A FAN FAVOURITE!

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Dear Hollywood, please adapt these books!

Hello 🙂

Did I have pizza from uni for lunch? Yes. Did I just order a pizza from the shop down the road? Yes. Yes I did. Its 9:30pm, I haven’t eaten since 11:30am and I cannot be bothered to cook. Please don’t judge me.

While I’m waiting for my pizza to be delivered though, I figured it was the best time to talk book-to-screen adaptations, specifically which ones I want to see be a real thing.

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The Brown Sister Trilogy by Talia Hibbert

So me finishing, and loving, Act Your Age, Eve Brown is what inspired this entire post because all I want from life now is a movie trilogy following each book in this series.

What I’ve Been Watching Recently… #7

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I should be in uni right now but instead I’m still in my pyjamas, drinking a cup of tea and doing a colouring book. I just really couldn’t sit through my morning lecture and personal development session today. Jury’s still out on if I go to my 4pm lecture.

I am getting cramp from colouring though so it’s time to take a break and instead talk about what I’ve been watching recently 🙂

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The Batman

Once upon a time I said I’d never watch any new batman movies unless it was more Lego-Batman … then they cast Robert Pattinson and I caved so quickly.

This movie was so freaking. First of all, I saw it for free! My friends boyfriend works at a cinema and got us in for free. So it was already a good day but then I watched this movie and it got even better.

The cinematography! The humour! The action!! My favourite scene of the whole movie was when Battinson just yeeted out the window, had a parachute, and then flew straight into a bridge, and hobbled away. I love the aesthetic of this Batman: greasy emo. I finished watching it and immediately wanted to watch it again.

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What I’ve Been Watching Recently … #5

Hi, hey and howdy :))

I don’t know what you’re doing with your night but I’m an hour and a half into a “unhinged recap of Pretty Little Liars”. This is only part one and I fully intend to continue on with part two. This is how I choose to spend my time :I

I’m also multitasking though. Yes I’m watching this Pretty Little Liars recap, but I’m also going to do a bit of a recap myself, not with a popular teen show, but with everything I’ve been watching recently!

I feel like this round of movies can be categorised:

• Best trilogy I’ve watched in a while.
• The rom-coms I watched with friends
• Ryan Reynolds.
• Cinema!
• Needed more Spiderman in my life.
• My dad really loves these Disney movies.
• … the two that don’t git fit into a category.

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Fear Street Trilogy

We’re starting off strong with possibly my favourite movie(s) I’ve watched in a really long time!! I say movie(s) because yes these are three movies, a trilogy, but in my eyes they need to be watched one after the other, therefore being one entity in my brain.

Over Halloween me and my housemate were left alone in the house (the other two housemates went home for Halloween) so we bought a ridiculous amount of popcorn and settled in for a movie night. We were not disappointed.

This is a masterclass in storytelling! Just the way the plot and mystery worked and weaved through three movies was so great. Me and Isabel were shouting out clues as we went and getting so hyped when we figured it out or something was revealed. Us watching this would have made a great episode of Gogglebox and everyone needs to watch this.

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All the TV shows I plan on watching instead of writing my essays :)

Hey and howdy, happy Monday.

Today I have the house to myself. After a tiring weekend of packing my bags to leave uni, saying goodbye to my housemates who are ditching me for study abroad in America next semester (😭 ) and then actually leaving uni, I’m ready for a rest.

Sure I’ve had the weekend but there’s no such thing as resting when there’s my 10 and 7 year old brother and sister running around the place. How they have so much energy I’ll never know.

They’re off at school though and my dads at work which means I’m spending the day on the couch and getting started on my Christmas break Watch-List. Sure I’ve got two essays and a piece of 2500 word creative writing to crack on with because the semester isn’t technically over yet, but I’m just gonna ignore that for now.

Since I’m procrastinating today anyways, I figured I’d share with you the shows I plan on watching over the next three weeks.

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Only Murders in the Building

Was my initial interest in this show all because of Selena Gomez? Yes. No shame. I’ve been obsessed with her since the Wizards of Waverly Place and Princess Protection Programme days.

I’ve actually watched the first episode of this but got too busy to continue. I was really intrigued by what I watched though and am excited to continue on.

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