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Ringing in the New Year with Book-to-Film Recs!

Memoir Nation

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Movies That Made the Best Movies

i was actually surprised how many of the stories were better as books than movies. i started to wonder if there is an intimacy and closeness of memoir, of a story like that that is better represented by words on the page than film. I notably, some one posted that i know why the cage bird sings, by mya angelo was made into a film. But that's because that film was made in 19 79. So i was feeling like that one could be re done for the big n to day. And then also, i want to note two adaptations that are new and exciting. The first one being the tender bar by jr. Moringer, which will be out

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