I don't know if it can really be called an "-athon" but that's what i'm calling it. i made the list of all of her movies that came from books. here's the list:
Kramer vs. Kramer - Avery Corman
The French Lieutenant's Wife - John Fowles
Sophie's Choice - William Styron
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Ironweed - William Kennedy
Evil Angels - John Bryson
Postcards From the Edge - Carrie Fischer
One True Thing -Anna Quindlen
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (ha! that's my cousin, sort of)
The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
That list does not include Julie and Julia and The Bridges of Madison County (both of which i've read but not seen) and The Devil Wears Prada, which i've both read and seen. Sophie's Choice i've seen but not read.
So, now i have to track down all those books. i don't know which one to do first... but i should probably start carrying the list around with me so when i go to the book store i can find the books. i couldn't remember all those authors' names if it was my life depending upon it.
In other news, Smashwords!! The Third Bed is almost completely reformatted to be uploaded. wait, scratch that. it's completely converted and ready to go, except for the cover photo. i'm hoping my cousin (not the sort of cousin from above, the other one) will do me a cover page, and that will be awesome.
I like that i started with something simple like The Third Bed because i just had to do the formatting and i also managed to learn some stuff about my new Word program that i didn't know before. because everything got changed and moved and i couldn't find jack shit. But since it's a short story and there was no italics or chapter breaks or font changes or anything crazy like that to deal with it was a quick conversion. Shade and Shadow is five chapter with breaks within the chapters. all that shift-shimmer shit is gonna drive me crazy.
but i have a background with which to start and not pull all my hair out... at least not immediately.
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