It’s time for Musing Mondays, a meme from The Purple Booker!
Please note that Musing Monday has moved from Books and a Beat.
Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer and then supplies a random question:
- I’m currently reading…
- Up next I think I’ll read…
- I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
- I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
- I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
- I can’t wait to get a copy of…
- I wish I could read ___, but…
- I blogged about ____ this past week…
I’m really upset by…
The fact that Nerdy Bookworm box has had to stop and there will be no blue box on my doorstep this month! I understand that running your own business is hard, especially when running something like a book box business alone, but I’m still going to miss it!
I don’t know that the possible replacement will cut it. As Timon once told Pumbaa, “This trio’s down to two.”
We’re going to be a week behind each musing Monday as we sadly can’t post on the day anymore but we’re loving the random questions and we will try and get round everyone’s posts when we can!
LAST WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: What do you think about books being made into movies or tv shows and do you always read the book first?
This is a question of multiple layers. Sometimes an adaption is fantastic, sometimes it’s terrible.
The idea of a book being turned into a film or TV show is one that I always find exciting, but at the same time I am nervous about it too. Ideally an adaption would be a TV show – one episode per chapter, just to get everything in. But reality is never what we want it to be.
I often try to read the book first because there’s usually more information in the book than the film and the insight into the characters I gain from the book usually fascinates me - but I try not to read it right before the film or I’ll be comparing them in far greater detail the whole time and I wont enjoy it. It doesn’t always work out that way though and sometimes the opportunity to see the film or show comes along before the opportunity to read the book.
This isn’t always the case! Sometimes I’ll see a film and it will inspire me to read the book for more, which can have mixed results. This worked well for Vampire Academy – I ended up preferring the books even though when I watched it I loved the film, not so well with The Hunger Games – I watched the first film then went home and read the books. The last book VS last film(s) made me conclude the films are better.
Then there’s the whole Mortal Instruments/Shadowhunters issue. Film Vs book Vs Tv show. It’s hard to say, I’ve only read half of the series but I feel film Clary and Jace were certainly written better if not acted better too. I prefer the rest of the characters from the TV show though. They seem more like they were intended to be.
In the end it all comes down to preference and exactly how you imagined it in your mind. Not everyone imagines the characters and the situations the same, the key imaginations here are those of the writers and directors.
BUT I’m pretty sure we can all agree, when they change the basic personalities of our favourite characters, they’re going to be terrible!
