Read Watch & Wine
164 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this PodCast, the lovely ladies of Read Watch & Wine will share their opinions of books that have been made into movies. They will explore storylines, adaptations, plot twists, modifications, and of course, the casting. Please keep in mind that many details are discussed, and therefore, spoilers are inevitable.
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
April 18, 2024 01:41 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MBFor years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men fro...
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
February 28, 2024 13:02 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBCelie, a poor African-American girl, lives in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. She writes letters to God because her father Alphonso beats and rapes her. Due to the rape, she gives birth to two children, Olivia and Adam, whom Alphonso takes away. A farmer identified as "Mister" (Mr. __) asks to marry her younger sister Nettie, but Alphonso offers him Celie instead. Celie is abused by Mister and mistreated by his prior children. Nettie runs away and stays with Celie, but Mister eventually ma...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
January 15, 2024 12:33 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBEleven-year-old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty with his parents and grandparents in a town that is home to a world-famous chocolate factory. One day, Charlie's bedridden Grandpa Joe tells him about Willy Wonka, the factory's eccentric owner, and all of his fantastical candies. Rival chocolatiers sent in spies to steal his recipes, forcing Wonka to close the factory and disappear. He reopened years later, but the gates remain locked, and nobody knows who is providing the factory with its wor...
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
December 29, 2023 01:05 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBA magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone wrong Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there ...
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
December 19, 2023 02:36 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBHorton Hears a Who is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It was published in 1954Elephant Horton finds a speck of dust floating in the Jungle of Nool. Upon investigation of the speck, Horton discovers the tiny city of Who-ville and its residents, the Whos, which he can hear but cannot see. Horton forms a friendship with the mayor of Who-ville, Ned McDodd, and promises to transport Who-ville to safety. However, Horton encounters opp...
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
November 08, 2023 13:05 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBKindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives. The book is the first-person account of a young African-American writer, Dana, who is repeatedly transported in time between her Los Angeles, California home in 1976 with her white husband and an early 19th-century Maryland plantation just outside Easton. There, she meets some of her ancestors: a proud, free Black woman and a white planter who forces her into sla...
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
November 01, 2023 13:13 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBOn her 30th birthday, Andrea Oliver celebrates the occasion at a local diner with her mother, Laura. Moments later, she witnesses the unthinkable on a day that would forever change her life. After her mother attempts to stop a shooter from killing more victims, Andrea notices that Laura has flipped the script and watches her violently dispose of the threat. Visibly shaken, Andrea is left with wavering thoughts and conflicted feelings about her mother's actions. Soon after, video footage of t...
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
October 26, 2023 01:45 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBAlways and Forever, Lara Jean is a 2017 novel by American author Jenny Han. It is the third and final installment of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series. Now in her final year of high school, Lara Jean Song Covey is excitedly looking forward to attending school with her boyfriend, Peter Kavinsky, at the University of Virginia (UVA). Peter has been accepted early on a sports scholarship for lacrosse. When acceptance letters come in, Lara Jean learns she has been rejected. After being...
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
September 20, 2023 13:48 - 18 minutes - 26 MB"P.S. I Still Love You" is a heartwarming continuation of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before series, which delves deeper into the life of Lara Jean Covey as she navigates the complexities of her first real relationship with Peter Kavinsky. The book excels in portraying the emotional turmoil and growth of the characters, giving readers an intimate glimpse into Lara Jean's thoughts and feelings.
A Man called Ove (Otto version) by Fredrik Backman
August 16, 2023 13:36 - 25 minutes - 35 MBMeet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t always walk around with a smile plastered to his face? Behind the cranky exterior, there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning, a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters m...
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
June 15, 2023 02:01 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBThe Little Mermaid is a literary fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a human soul. The Little Mermaid lives in an underwater kingdom with her widowed father (The Sea King), her dowager grandmother, and her five older sisters, born one year apart.
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
April 19, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBAt 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother before long, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent serving upper-middle-class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better...
Bridgertons #2 - The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
April 05, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBIn 1814, after years as one of the most notorious rakes of the Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton decides to settle down and carry on the family line. Haunted by his father's death at a young age from a bee sting, Anthony now believes, albeit irrationally, that he will die young, too and does not want the complication of falling in love.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.
January 31, 2023 13:41 - 29 minutes - 40 MBA Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel by American author Madeleine L'Engle. The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe – embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to rescue the Murry's' father and fight back The Black Thing that has intruded into several worlds. The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness and good and evil as the young characters mature into adolescents on the...
Tiny Pretty Things by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra
September 28, 2022 12:01 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBBlack Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this drama-packed debut about three perfect girls who will do anything to be the prima ballerina at their elite New York ballet school. Now a major Netflix series! Being a dancer at New York’s most elite ballet school isn’t easy. Everyone wants to be the prima ballerina, and sometimes you must play dirty. With the competition growing fiercer with every performance and harmless pranks growing ever darker, Bette, June, and Gigi find themselves battling ...
RWW 100th Episode - Interview with Author - Dhonielle Clayton
August 31, 2022 12:03 - 42 minutes - 9 MBBorn and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Dhonielle spent much of her childhood hiding beneath her grandmother's dining table with a stack of books. As an English teacher at a ballet academy, Clayton rediscovered her passion for children's and young adult literature. To ground herself in the canon, she pursued her Masters in Children's Literature from Hollins University before receiving her MFA in Writing for Children at the New School. She is a former middle school librarian, wher...
The Willoughby by Lois Lowry
August 10, 2022 23:47 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBConvinced they'd be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family.
Passing by Nella Larsen
July 27, 2022 23:38 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBSet primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends—Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield—and their increasing fascination with each other's lives. The title refers to the practice of "racial passing" and is a key element of the novel. Clare Kendry's attempt to pass as white for her husband, John (Jack) Bellew, is a significant depiction in the novel and a catalyst for the tragic events.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
March 16, 2022 13:05 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBNine people from different walks of life attend a pricey 10-day "Mind and Body Total Transformation Retreat" at a place called the Tranquillum House run by a mysterious Russian woman named Masha. Throughout the course of their retreat, they realize that each of them is battling their own demons and all of them are subjects of an experiment.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
March 03, 2022 02:16 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThirteen Reasons Why is a young adult novel written by Jay Asher in 2007 that follows the story of Hannah Baker, a high school freshman, and the thirteen reasons why she commits suicide. Following her death, Hannah leaves behind 7 double-sided cassette tapes detailing the 13 specific people and events that she blames for her demise. Two weeks after her death, these cassette tapes are mailed out with directions to pass the tapes on to the next person on the tape. Hannah's life story is convey...
Bridgerton - The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
February 02, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBDaphne Bridgerton, the fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society...
Bridgertons #1 - The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
February 02, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBDaphne Bridgerton, the fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society...
Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
January 19, 2022 13:12 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBMolly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world—an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed. In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen—she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play. Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost...
Along Came A Spider by James Patterson
January 05, 2022 13:02 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBAlex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold a highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service ...
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
December 22, 2021 13:36 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBThe novel centers on 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who is being treated for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), also known as "bubble baby disease". Due to this, Madeline is kept inside her house in Los Angeles, where she lives with her mother, a doctor. The story follows 18-year-old Madeline Whittier a half Japanese, half African-American 18-year-old who is being treated by her doctor mother for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and therefore is not allowed to leave her house o...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,
December 08, 2021 13:02 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBBrave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society that is challenged by only a single ...
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
October 13, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBThe novel begins with 16-year-old Steve Harmon writing in his book awaiting his trial for murder. Musing on his short time in prison so far, he decides to record this upcoming experience in the form of a movie screenplay. Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer, informs him of what will happen during the trial. At this stage, only two of the four accused – James King and Steve – will be tried, since the other two accused – Richard "Bobo" Evans and Osvaldo Cruz – have entered into a plea bargain. When ...
To all the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
May 26, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBWhat if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are ...
Breakfast at Tiffany‘s by Truman Capote
May 20, 2021 01:29 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBIn autumn 1943, the unnamed narrator befriends Holly Golightly. The two are tenants in a brownstone apartment in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society, girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs and restaurants, and give her money and expensive presents; she hopes to marry one of them. According to Capote, Golightly is not a prostitute, but an "American geisha". Holly likes to shock p...
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanee Korelitz and the tv series The Undoing
April 14, 2021 13:22 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBGrace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by how women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she...
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
March 17, 2021 13:19 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBAndrea Sachs, a recent graduate of Brown University with a degree in English, moves to New York City with her best friend, Lily, a graduate student at Columbia. Andrea hopes to find a career in publishing and blankets the city with her résumé. She believes she'll be closer to her dream of working for The New Yorker if she can get a job in the magazine industry. She gets a surprise interview at the Elias-Clark Group and is hired as a junior assistant for Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of t...
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
March 10, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 nonfiction book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. Shetterly started working on the book in 2010. The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s when some viewed women as inferior to men. The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three mathematicians who worked as computers (then a job description) at NASA, during the s...
The Goodlord Bird by James McBride
February 17, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBHenry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857 when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town—with Brown, who believes he’s a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry—whom Brown nicknames Little Onion—conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually, Little Onion ...
Enola Holmes Mysteries -The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
January 20, 2021 13:00 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBOn Enola's fourteenth birthday, her mother disappears, and Sherlock and Mycroft, Enola's brothers, conclude that her mother voluntarily left. Enola is devastated but eventually discovers elaborate ciphers her mother wrote, which leads her to conclude that she left to live with the Romani people and escape Victorian society's confines. Enola finds that her mother left money to fund her escape. When the eldest Mycroft insists that Enola attend boarding school and learn to be a proper lady, she...
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff review of TV series adaptation
December 23, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBAtticus Turner, working in Florida after leaving the army, returns home to Chicago after receiving a mysterious letter from his estranged father, Montrose, saying he had left Chicago to go to Ardham, Massachusetts, where he believed he could find some information on Atticus' mother's family (previously unknown to them). Atticus, his uncle George, and his childhood friend Letitia drive to Ardham to find Montrose. They are chased, accosted, and later nearly murdered by racists on the way. Once ...
The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester and review of the movie adaptation Greyhound
December 02, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBThe hero of The Good Shepherd is Commander Krause, the captain of the fictional US Navy Mahan-class destroyer USS Keeling in World War II. Krause is in overall command of an escort force protecting an Atlantic convoy in the Battle of the Atlantic, shepherding it through the Mid-Atlantic gap where no antisubmarine aircraft are able to defend convoys. He finds himself in a difficult position. The voyage in question occurs early in 1942, shortly after the United States' entry into the war. Alth...
Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay
November 11, 2020 11:06 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBSarah's Key is a novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, first published in its French translation as Elle s'appelait Sarah in September 2006. Two main parallel plots are followed through the book. The first is that of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski, a Jewish girl born in Paris, arrested with her parents during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Before they go, she locks her four-year-old brother in a cupboard, thinking the family should be back in a few hours. The second plot follows Julia Jarmond, an American jo...
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
October 28, 2020 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBTaking place mostly in rural Georgia the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. Celie is a poor, uneducated 14-year-old girl living in the South in the early 1900s. She writes letters to God because the man she thought was her father, Alphonso, beats, and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once, a pregnancy that resulted in t...
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
October 08, 2020 02:09 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBThe Help is 2009 about African Americans working in white households in Mississippi during the early 1960s. The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans. Her own 24-year-old son, Treelore, died from an accident on his job. In the story, she is tending the Leefolt household and caring for t...
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
October 08, 2020 02:09 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBThe Help is 2009 about African Americans working in white households in Mississippi during the early 1960s. The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans. Her own 24-year-old son, Treelore, died from an accident on his job. In the story, she is tending the Leefolt household and caring for t...
I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBThe novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut in the early 1990s. Dominick Birdsey's identical twin, Thomas Birdsey, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. With medication, Thomas is able to live his life in relative peace and work at a coffee stand, but occasionally, he has severe episodes of his illness. Thinking he is making a sacrificial protest that will stop the Gulf War, Thomas cuts off his own hand while at a public library. Dominick sees him through the ensuing decision not to at...
I know this much is true, by Wally Lamb
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBThe novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut in the early 1990s. Dominick Birdsey's identical twin, Thomas Birdsey, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. With medication, Thomas is able to live his life in relative peace and work at a coffee stand, but occasionally, he has severe episodes of his illness. Thinking he is making a sacrificial protest that will stop the Gulf War, Thomas cuts off his own hand while at a public library. Dominick sees him through the ensuing decision not to at...
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
September 02, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBThe Last Thing he wanted is a novel published by Joan Didion. The story centers on Elena McMahon, a reporter for The Washington Post who quits her job covering the 1984 US Presidential election to care for her father after her mother's death. In an unusual turn of events, she inherits his position as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. In this sparsely written, quick-paced narrative, Elena struggles to cope with the spies, American military personnel, and the conseque...
The last thing he wanted, by Joan Didion
September 02, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBThe Last Thing he wanted is a novel published by Joan Didion. The story centers on Elena McMahon, a reporter for The Washington Post who quits her job covering the 1984 US Presidential election to care for her father after her mother's death. In an unusual turn of events, she inherits his position as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. In this sparsely written, quick-paced narrative, Elena struggles to cope with the spies, American military personnel, and the conseque...
In the Tall grass, by Stephen King and Joe Hill
August 19, 2020 12:01 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MBIn the Tall Grass is a horror novella by American writers Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. Cal and Becky Demuth are inseparable siblings (being called Irish twins by their parents, although they are 19 months apart). Becky finds out during her sophomore year of college that she is pregnant, leading the twins' parents to suggest she go live with her aunt and uncle until the baby is born. While on this journey brother and sister enter a field of tall grass to rescue a boy, but they soon r...
In the tall grass, by Stephen King and Joe Hill
August 19, 2020 12:01 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MBIn the Tall Grass is a horror novella by American writers Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. Cal and Becky Demuth are inseparable siblings (being called Irish twins by their parents, although they are 19 months apart). Becky finds out during her sophomore year of college that she is pregnant, leading the twins' parents to suggest she go live with her aunt and uncle until the baby is born. While on this journey brother and sister enter a field of tall grass to rescue a boy, but they soon r...
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, book to movie review of several movie adaptations such as, A Dark Place, The Innocents and The Turning
August 12, 2020 11:27 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBThe Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. In the century following its pu...
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, book to movie review of several movie adaptations such as, A Dark Place, The Innocents and The Turning
August 12, 2020 11:27 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBThe Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. In the century following its pu...
Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer book to movie adaptation
August 05, 2020 12:01 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBBased on the first two books in author Eoin Colfer wildly popular children's fantasy series, Walt Disney Studios' Artemis Fowl tells the story of adolescent criminal genius Artemis, who captures a vicious fairy, and attempts to harness her magical powers in a bid to rescue his family.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer book to movie adaptation
August 05, 2020 12:01 - 23 minutes - 31.6 MBBased on the first two books in author Eoin Colfer wildly popular children's fantasy series, Walt Disney Studios' Artemis Fowl tells the story of adolescent criminal genius Artemis, who captures a vicious fairy, and attempts to harness her magical powers in a bid to rescue his family.