This week’s Book Blogger Hop question: Halloween Edition: What scary book would you like turned into a feature film?

Since I don’t generally like scary books or movies, this question seemed like it would be a bit of a challenge…but then I remembered Lois Duncan.  I like to think of her as the Hitchcock of writers, because her style of suspense and subtlety feels similar to me.  She’s written a lot of very spooky YA novels, some of them fantasy, some not–but even the real-world ones tend to be dark in a fascinating way.

One of her books has already been made into a movie–I Know What You Did Last Summer.  I haven’t seen it, because it looks very unlike the original book (which I have read and was very good).

I’d particularly like to see movies of Down a Dark Hall, Killing Mr. Griffin, or Daughters of Eve (review here)…provided, of course, that they were done right!

Do you have a favorite scary book you’d like to see as a movie?

First of all, Happy Friday the 13th!  I’m definitely going to have to find something spooky to read or watch today…how appropriate that it came during the RIP challenge!

Now then, this week’s Book Blogger Hop question: Are you in a book club? How does your book club choose books? How far in advance do you choose?

I am in a book club!  Have been for…wow, about three years now, and I’m happy to say I met some of my closest friends through my book club.

How we choose our books…well, that’s a bit complicated, because it’s changed at times.  Originally, one person would volunteer to bring several options to each meeting, and we’d vote for the next month’s book.  Then we tried voting all at once for six months in advance.  That seemed like a good idea…until we ended up feeling locked into the choices for far too long.  It really wasn’t so good as new people joined, or people who had originally voted dropped out.

Then for a while one member devised and ran a very elaborate and impressive system.  It involved nominating books on Facebook and doing a five-book poll each month, randomly selecting books to vote on from the larger pool of suggestions.

That method eventually got too complicated and time-consuming…so we’ve pretty much reverted back to a more informal method of choosing books for the next month at each meeting, though there’s still some elements of nominating book ideas online.

So there you go–if you’re thinking about running a book club, there are lots of ways to do it! 🙂