Books to Movies - Jane Eyre

I recently finished reading:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - Amazon / The Book Depository

Tomorrow, March 11, (in limited release), a movie from Focus Features is coming out:

If your browser does not support embedded video, view the trailer here.

If you've read the book, seeing the trailer will make you say, "Oh, my gosh!  I REMEMBER that!", and looking at the people chosen to play the characters, especially that of Jane Eyre, will likely make you say, "That is SO spot-on!".

Unfortunately for me, the movie is NOT releasing in my own area on Friday, but I set up a fan alert on Fandango to let me know when it gets here.

In the meantime, you can visit the movie website, or participate in the Goodreads Jane Eyre Challenge.

You can win prizes at either link, including a trip to Yorkshire, England.

And if you see the movie before I do, come back and tell me how fantabulous it was, so that I can be even more excited about it!

War and Peace Readalong 2011

Did you start War and Peace and never finish it?  Is it one of the books on your I-Must-Read-Before-I-Die list?  If so, this very casual read-along hosted by Jillian at A Room of One's Own is for you.

A chapter a day through 2011.  That's it.  365 chapters - one each day, a discussion post every two months that you can choose to participate in.  You can even download it at the Amazon Kindle store for free and almost-free (99 cents and up).  You don't need an e-reader for it, as there is Kindle software for both PC and Mac available for free at Amazon's website.  The software is also available for the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and others.  Go to this page to see which application(s) are available.

Sign up here and details here.

Main page here

My thanks go to Mary at Book Fan for pointing me towards this readalong.

How Well Read Are You?

On a recent trip through the blogosphere, I came across this at Everything Distils Into Reading:

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions:

• Copy this list.
• Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
• Italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
• Tag other book nerds.

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The King James Bible
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George Orwell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma -Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Dune – Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Inferno – Dante
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Germinal – Emile Zola
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession – AS Byatt
Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

My Notes:

Life of Pi - I can't believe I read the whole thing, as I didn't like it very much - I just kept reading hoping it would grow on me, since everyone else thought it was fab!

Possession - I have it on my TBR shelves - does that count?

The Remains of the Day - ALSO on my TBR shelf

Les Miserables - Favorite novel ever!  I need to buy a new copy, as my current THICK paperback copy is so well-loved that part of the cover is loose from the spine!

I have read 41 out of this list, which must mean that I'm not as well-read as I thought! And yet, 41 vs. 6 makes me feel positively like a brainiac! How many have YOU read? Consider yourself tagged!