Booksology Hamnet is doing well at the box office and bookstores
hamnet has already doubled its production budget to $35 million at the box office, the majority of which comes from international markets. The book’s ripple effect was even more significant, with sales increasing by more than 700%. Hamnet was already in the realm of paperback popularity, so this added fuel to the fire. And as I said at length, this book is very good and deserves recognition.
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Orhan Pamuk’s first film adaptation hits Netflix this weekend
It’s a testament to the scale and fragmentation of the streaming landscape that even though I love Pamuk’s work and follow book news for a living, I didn’t know that an adaptation of The Museum of Innocence would be released on Netflix this weekend. An adaptation of The Signal does wonders for a writer’s profile, but the long journey that led to it shows that Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was more interested in making a good adaptation than simply getting the work out into the world. You can check out the trailer for The Museum of Innocence here.
Rebecca and I power-ranked the 10 most important and influential books of 2016. How have things changed?
