Top Ten Tuesday: Page to Screen

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Page to Screen Freebie. For my list, I’m revisiting some reviews of films based on books I wrote as part of a reading challenge (also named From Page To Screen) that has rather fallen by the wayside recently. It was based on films shown at my local independent cinema, Reading Film Theatre, that were adapted from books.

My ten fall neatly into two equal groups – books I thought were better than the film and films I thought were better than the book. The link takes you to my review of the film from which you can also find a link to a more detailed review of the book.

If you’ve seen or read any of them, what was your view?


Book Wins

Carol (The Price of Salt) by Patricia Highsmith
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Indignation by Philip Roth
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Film Wins

Runaway by Alice Munro (Julieta)
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (Love and Friendship)
Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (En man som heter Ove)

 

Top Ten Tuesday: Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes (The John Buchan Edition)

Top Ten Tuesday newTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Inspirational/Thought-Provoking Book Quotes. As a John Buchan nerd, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to construct my list from some of his many books, fiction and non-fiction.


“A man may be tired of the country, but when he is tired of London he is tired of life.” Samuel Johnson in Midwinter

“Of all the good gifts of a beneficent Providence to men…I think that none excels a well-appointed inn.” Samuel Johnson in Midwinter

[…]the true task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” The King’s Grace

“A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.” Richard Hannay in The Thirty-Nine Steps

“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” Edward Leithen in The Power-House

“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.” Memory Hold-The-Door

“I have been happy in many things, but all my other good fortune has been as dust in the balance compared with the blessing of an incomparable wife.” Memory Hold-the-Door

“It’s a great life, if you don’t weaken.” Mr. Standfast

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism.  I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.” Andrew Lumley in The Power-House

“He had never been lonely in his life before he met her, having at the worst found good company in himself; but now he longed for a companion, and out of all the many millions of the earth’s inhabitants there was only one that he wanted.” Jaikie in The House of the Four Winds