BOOK OF THE MONTH: JUNE 2018

Cheers to the new month FictionAddicts!

I’m lost for words today so I’ll just get to the point. I’m sorry the post is late. Again. Man proposes, God disposes things and I’m just glad I can even write this post.

This month I’ve chosen two novels that will be adapted to television series. The idea is to finish reading the book before the series start airing on TV.  That way we’ll be able to understand the story line and even pick out parts of the series that deviate from the plot in the book! Oh not forgetting we’ll be able to do a comparison between the book and the Tv series.

So, this month we’ll read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn and Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta.

Sharp Obejects by Gillian Flynn (2006) : Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment :  s he must return to her tiny hometown to  cover the murder of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken a work to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen year old  with an eerie grip on the town. Now installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims  a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to her the story- and survive this homecoming.

Sharp Objects is Gillian Flynn’s debut novel. She is also the bestselling author of Dark Places and Gone Girl. The Sharp objects Tv Series will premiere on Sky Atlantic  in the UK on July 9^th and in the US on July 8^th on HBO.

Click  HERE  to download Sharp Objects.

Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta (2017)

Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, “U R my MILF!” Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life—serving as Executive Director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on Gender and Society at night—Eve can’t curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary, middle-aged women like herself. Before long, Eve’s online fixations begin to spill over into real life, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.

Meanwhile, miles away at the state college, Eve’s son Brendan—a jock and aspiring frat boy—discovers that his new campus isn’t nearly as welcoming to his hard-partying lifestyle as he had imagined. Only a few weeks into his freshman year, Brendan is floundering in a college environment that challenges his white-dude privilege and shames him for his outmoded, chauvinistic ideas of sex. As the New England autumn turns cold, both mother and son find themselves enmeshed in morally fraught situations that come to a head on one fateful November night.

HBO has given a pilot order to comedy Mrs. Fletcher based on The Leftovers author Tom Perrotta’s bestselling novel of the same name, with Kathryn Hahn attached to star.

Click  HERE  to download Mrs. Fletcher

That’s all folks. Remember to 

Love,

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