Booksology The book behind this year’s big events
As the Academy Awards ceremony approaches this Sunday, Publishers Weekly has compiled unique interpretations of many of the books related to this year’s biggest films. Of course there’s Hamnet, Train Dreams (my favorite under-the-radar movie of 2025), and its inspiration, Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Battles continue one after another. Nonfiction fans, don’t despair. Biography of Mary Shelley, Turgenev and lyricist Lorenz Hart (beautifully played by Ethan Hawke) blue moon) are also waiting for you.
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Margo has momentum
I’ve been curious and concerned about how AppleTV’s adaptation of Margo’s Got Money Trouble would turn out ever since it was announced. The tone is quirky and surprisingly wholesome for a book about a young woman who starts an OnlyFans to support herself after having an affair with her English professor, but it’s not always easy to thread the needle on screen. Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Nicole Kidman lead the absolutely cast cast for the show, which debuts April 15th, and we couldn’t be happier to see that early reviews are strong. Luffy Thorpe’s novels are exactly the kind of things I want to see more of in print, so I hope viewers will turn into readers and send me signals that they want more like this.
Most read books this week on Goodreads
The page-to-screen sensation continues to dominate Goodreads, but with Wuthering Heights falling out of the top five, we can’t help but hope that word has finally gotten out that this book isn’t spicy and romantic (and it really isn’t).
