Skip the Book, Watch the Web Series Instead
Posted by: Admin
Here’s an idea for a book group. Keir just sent me news about an original Web series to air on CBS.com called Novel Adventures. It’s centered around a group of friends who belong to a book club; but in each episode, instead of meeting to talk about the book, they go off (in Saturn cars, apparently) and have adventures instead. According to the press release, “each of the eight episodes will focus on a different novel or series and the subsequent adventures that the books inspire in the four women.” The novels the women won’t be reading, or at least won’t be discussing, are
• The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
• Girls Like Us (Sheila Weller)
• The Bourne Trilogy (Robert Ludlum)
• Monster of Florence (Douglas Preston)
• The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry (Kathleen Flinn)
• Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
• Life So Far (Betty Friedan)
• The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society (Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows)
• Knit Two (Kate Jacobs)
