Simon ,'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
When You Reach Me features A Wrinkle in Time very heavily.
Oooh, that's right. See, I think there's probably plenty, I'll just have to look into it more.
Ideally, the list would just have books that are about classics and not retellings, but I'd need two dozen for that. I think I only have about 5 or 6 now.
You need a TV club. I'm much better at TV.
Oh, what about Northanger Abbey? Isn't the heroine captivated by a Gothic novel?
Okay, here's what I have so far for books where one specific book is a plot point.
Flaubert’s Parrot
(Julian Barnes) [Madame Bovary]
Little Women
(Louisa May Alcott) [Pilgrim’s Progress]
Mister Pip
(Lloyd Jones) [Great Expectations]
Treasure Island!!!
(Sara Levine) [Treasure Island]
When You Reach Me
(Rebecca Stead) [A Wrinkle in Time]
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte) [The Three Musketeers]
Lots of other books (real and fictional) come up in it as well, but Three Musketeers drives the action on several levels.
Does John Gardner's Grendel count, cf, Beowulf ?
Does John Gardner's Grendel count, cf, Beowulf ?
I think it might. It's a great book.
The Red Tent, based on the Bible.
The Shadow of the Wind also comes to mind, but it revolves around a fictional book.
Lots of great ideas here, everyone, thanks so much! I think I need to ruminate on this one more and perhaps come up with a couple of different topics out of it. I think there's probably a whole one on The Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid concept alone.
The Shadow of the Wind also comes to mind, but it revolves around a fictional book.
Yeah, we've actually already done a whole salon on books about books in general, which is why I was looking for a twist. The great thing about books based on actual classics would be that others could probably relate more to the books other people choose.
Luckily, the two books that put it in mind ended up on another list, No Man Is An Island (books with island settings). Other new topics are Fractured Fairytales and Le Jazz Hot: Flappers, Feminism, and Fitzgerald. I have a feeling that the latter is going to be chosen due to the Gatsby movie.
I can't believe we're having our 28th salon next week!