{"id":88751,"date":"2025-10-18T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88751\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:15:07","slug":"my-favorite-book-of-the-past-5-years-is-becoming-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/88751\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Book of the Past 5 Years Is Becoming a Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I recently wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/books\/hamnet-maggie-ofarrell-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">picking a favorite book<\/a> out of the nearly 200 I\u2019ve read in the past half-decade, PureWow readers had thoughts. Some agreed with me. Some thought I had overlooked better options. And some were not-so-impressed with my \u201cnumber.\u201d (Many of you read a book a week; I\u2019m not worthy!)<\/p>\n<p>But overall, the reaction to my pick was positive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hamnet-Maggie-OFarrell\/dp\/1984898876?&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=pur0e4-20&amp;linkId=f251818834482837aa5686832e322ded&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored noskim nofollow\">Hamnet by Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/a> is a fantastic, gut-wrenching account of Shakespeare\u2019s wife, Agnes\u2014moving between her story of marriage and motherhood and the tragic death that befalls her child. It\u2019s beautiful and visceral, almost demanding a screen adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I\u2019m always skeptical when a book I love so much gets the cinematic treatment. Will the movie do it justice? Will there be additions and omissions that just bug me?<\/p>\n<p>Here to try is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purewow.com\/entertainment\/oscars-best-director-female-nominees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a>, director of Nomadland, one of my favorite movies of the past decade. (But that\u2019s a separate list!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I recently wrote about picking a favorite book out of the nearly 200 I\u2019ve read in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-88751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}