Did you catch the first episode of Little Women on PBS's Masterpiece Theater? I had the time wrong so only caught the last few minutes of the first episode but thank goodness for streaming media as I was able to watch it later in the week online. Whether it was truly like they depicted it or not, it felt very real to me. I was impressed and really loved the adaptation. I loved the novel when I was little but when I reread it a few years back as an adult I liked parts of it very much but was put off by the overly moralizing tone of it. I realize Louisa May Alcott was writing for a particular audience at a particular time so it is not surprising, but I was a little jarred by it. I wonder if I should try it yet again or leave it as a happy childhood memory and just enjoy the film. I'll read this and then reassess my opinion!
Of course it made me want to read some other book with a similar setting/time period, so I might have a browse at my bookshelves. I did pull out a book by Kaye Gibbons I had never read that at least touches upon that era, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon. Many years ago I binged on her work and I think I wouldn't mind revisiting it now.
I guess you can tell what I like to read. For once I have read most of the books on this list. Actually it is a little curious really, as I didn't think I tended to like the 'supernatural', but then maybe I just think of these books as being ghost stories (which I love). The few I have not are totally new to me, so I am off to check them out now.
Speaking of mysteries the nominees for the Anthony Awards have been announced. I have read one (the Jane Harper) and have another couple my reading pile (the Anthony Horowitz and nonfiction by Mattias Bostrom). I can see I really need to read Attica Locke as her book (previous books,too) keeps popping up all over the place. I wonder if it matters if you read her books out of order? And the book is also being adapted to TV!
I love Shirley Jackson and need to get back to her books (so many books and authors I need to get back to, you know how that goes!). I see that a "psychological thriller" is being filmed about her. How interesting. Not just a film adaptation of her work, but of her life?
I'm not sure if I have ever heard of the Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award before? It is an award voted on by independent booksellers, however, so I am all for it. The 2018 awards have been announced and pretty much all the awards for adult literature are either on my radar or on my reading pile. Nudge, nudge. I know I need to read these and I want to read them. Send more free time please.
I need to do more of this! (I think that is the case for some of those award winning books that I mean to read but are maybe just a little outside that comfort zone).
This podcast on Agatha Christie sounds interesting and I think I need to add it to my 'listening list'.
More short stories! The O. Henry Award winners have been announced and I will be watching for the collection in book format (I think it comes out in the fall--unless I can track some of them down in their original publications).
So, the wedding of the year is now upon us? Will you be watching? I am not really a Royal Family-watcher, but I might have a glance or two out of curiosity. It's a bit hard to avoid the news anyway.
Otherwise my weekend will be filled with a movie or two, a podcast or two and a ticket to see Wicked on Sunday. And then squeezing in whatever reading I can manage in the rest of the nooks and crannies.
Have a great weekend everyone.