Of course the obvious ones were discussed first: Harry Potter, Twilight, The Cat in the Hat, Marley and Me, Pride & Prejudice, etc., but once we started getting deeper into the conversation, we were amazed at how many movies are based off of really phenomenal books. (mamanista.com)
In the Heat of the Night Year: 1967 Directed by: Norman Jewison Starring: Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier Why it's essential: The sea changes in Hollywood represented in Mark Harris's phenomenal book Pictures at a Revolution produced this socially conscious southern drama as a kind of compromise choice between the radical New Hollywood of Bonnie & Clyde and the studio bloat of a Doctor Doolittle. (decider.com)
• In this week's What We're Reading post, I wrote about Matt Bell's In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, which I think is an absolutely phenomenal book. (bookpage.com)