When Books And TV Collide

There are so many awesome shows based on books, The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game...uh True Blood.

And then there are shows loosely based on books, like Bones. 

I've read some of several of these series..and I've watched the shows. People...Bones is so much better than Kathy Reichs, drier than the Sarah Desert prose. 

But do any of you remember Past Life? It was a very short lived show on Fox. Like 7 episodes, short lived. I watched a few of them, and after reading a few of M.J. Rose's Reincarnationist series, I understand why. Like Bones, it is loosely based on the books. But unlike Bones, Rose's books are interesting and colorful and full of history.

It isn't that I didn't enjoy the show, because I did, but there was so much going on in the books that they could really have made a great series from them, rather than what they did, which was really ho hum. Rose's books deserved better treatment

What series of books do you wish would make it to the small screen

Books To TV

Its rather interesting to see how many TV shows are based on books these days. We all know that True Blood is based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie books aka The Southern Vampires. And of course last years comedy Accidentally On Purpose was based on the memoirs of Mary Pols. Of course there's The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl too.

But did you know that two shows on Fox were based on novels? The now defunct Past Life was based on the M.J. Rose books, The Reincarnationist, The Hypnotist and The Memorist. Oh and Bones? There's a whole series of books by Kathy Reichs that inspired Bones. And how can you not love Bones!

Wowzas.

I've got a lot of reading to do. The question is, where to start?