We hold monthly book-to-film club events, where we read, watch and discuss books which have been turned into films! Click the YPG Book-to-Film page for more information!
Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK by Matthew Quick. It’s summertime, and our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is a classic beach read: TWILIGHT, based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown, 2005). This brooding girl-meets-vampire love...
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Thanks to those of you who joined us for our last film club viewing and discussion of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK by Matthew Quick. It’s summertime, and our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is a classic beach read: TWILIGHT, based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown, 2005).
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Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, based on the novel by Matthew Quick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). In this daring dramedy, former teacher Pat struggles with living with his parents and coming to terms with his ex-wife after a stint in a mental institution.
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"Gatsby? What Gatsby?"
Perhaps you remember it vaguely from English class, or perhaps you re-read it once a year – whatever your personal relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest work, share your thoughts at our first Book-to-Film Club event on Saturday, May 11.
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The YPG Book to Film Club packed into a movie theater-esque conference room at Simon & Schuster last Wednesday night, February 20th, to view the adaptation of the much beloved YA novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In this funny and touching coming-of-age story, an introvert high school freshman named Charlie is taken...
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Need another Book to Film Club fix before SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK in May? You’re in luck. The National Book Awards are hosting a Novel-to-Screen Film Festival, featuring three films based on NBA-nominated books on April 4-5 at Pratt Manhattan.
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Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, based on the novel by Matthew Quick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). The 2012 film was directed by David O. Russell and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro and Jacki Weaver. All four actors received Oscar nominations and Lawrence recently took...
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Our next YPG Book to Film Club selection is THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky (Simon & Schuster). Join us on Wednesday, February 20th at 7 pm at Simon & Schuster.
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T’was the Wednesday before Christmas, for all YPG, And we gathered at Penguin with a movie to see, The popcorn was opened, and flavored with dill, A fairly odd flavor, but still quite a thrill, The Polar Express was the movie of choice, Starring Tom Hanks, who played every voice, The CGI captured...
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On October 17, the YPG Book to Film Club gathered around a conference table at Penguin for a Halloween-themed viewing of Coraline, the 2009 animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s classic horror novella (HarperCollins, 2002). The verdict? We are easily frightened.
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