#adaptations

What Do We Want in a Literary Adaptation?

What makes a good adaptation? A reader identifies four different types of adaptation, and compares them using PRIDE & PREJUDICE.

Troubles in Adaptation: The 2013 Adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY

With class divides growing ever more troubling, a reader considers the failings of THE GREAT GATSBY adaptation's translation of Fitzgerald's commentary.

The Best Feel-Good Adaptations to Stream Right Now

These feel-good adaptations will remind you how much you love the source material or, if you haven't read them, get you familiarized with new stories.

10 of the Best Musicals Adapted From Books

It's not unlikely that some of your favorite musicals are based on books. Prepare for a song and dance number with these musicals adapted from books.

2020 YA Books To Movies For Your TBR/TBW Lists

These 2020 YA books to movies will have you ready for the upcoming year in all things young adult literature and entertainment.

It’s Okay to Remake THE PRINCESS BRIDE (and Everything Else, Too)

We all have our beloved tales, but what exactly is being done to them when they're adapted? Is it so wrong to retell? Let's consider THE PRINCESS BRIDE.

Little Thoughts on LITTLE WOMEN Adaptations

Which is the best of the LITTLE WOMEN adaptations, why casting is so important, and how there can never be enough takes on the classic.

10 Books That Should Be TV Miniseries

So many great stories are getting adaptations, and one reader selected ten series and books that should be TV miniseries.

7 Books That Should Be Broadway Musicals (And The Musicians Who Should Adapt Them)

Singer-song writer Ingrid Michaelson is bringing The Notebook to Broadway. We've got some ideas for other books that should hit the stage.

They Changed It! Unfaithful Yet Amazing Movie Adaptations

"Turning to books for inspiration is a tradition almost as old as movies themselves. But sometimes, filmmakers get ideas."