Netflix Shadow and Bone: Read Along with GrishaCast
Apr 23 2021
“Shadow and Bone” has landed on Netflix , bringing a beloved book series to more than 200 million subscribers. To celebrate, Fable is launching a free Shadow and Bone Book Club dedicated to Leigh Bardugo’s series.This special book club will be hosted by Eric and Terry, two lifelong friends who have covered news and books from the Shadow and Bone series every week on The GrishaCast, the only podcast dedicated to Bardugo’s work.
Join the Shadow and Bone book club for free!
Fans around the globe have obsessed over the "Shadow and Bone" series and “Six of Crows” series by Leigh Bardugo for many years. It’s a collection of interconnected fantasy books set in an imaginary story-world dubbed “The Grishaverse.”The series opens in a world torn in half by the "Shadow Fold," a mysterious curtain of darkness that has swept across a once-great country and set loose fearsome creatures upon the cities trapped in its wake. This world has fractured with wars over resources, the landscape literally divided by evil forces.In the first novel, a young mapmaker named Alina discovers she possesses an untapped power that can help confront the darkness covering this land. In this story, magic and science are deeply intertwined as "Grishas," or talented magic users who can reshape different aspects of reality through the application of the "simple science." Watch the trailer for the Netflix show to learn more!More great books to read and stream
There are lots of new shows and movies adapted from great books—streaming across platforms, from Hulu to Apple TV to Netflix to Amazon.Documentarian Ken Burns turned his camera to the work of Nobel Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway this month. The documentary looks at his famous books, as well as examples of the novelist’s misogyny, racism, and abuse.Hemingway (PBS)
You can watch the three-part documentary for free, but if you only watch one part, watch Episode Two: “The Avatar.” This installment covers 1929 through 1944, as the world goes to pieces with the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and the novelist climbs to the peak of international literary fame.Read The Hemingway Stories on Fable and then watch the trailer for part two of “Hemingway.”The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu)
Margaret Atwood's acclaimed novel has inspired a fourth new season for streaming viewers. This season promises to bring revolution to Gilead, a dystopian near-future society divided by religious zealotry and hate. Atwood revisited this story-world in The Testaments,” a book set more than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, as the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within.Read The Testaments on Fable and then watch the trailer for the new season on Hulu:Without Remorse (Amazon)
Tom Clancy's great novel tells the story of how an ordinary man named John Kelly takes a journey into the heart of darkness to become a brilliant, cold-blooded, and efficient CIA agent named Mr. Clark. The film stars Michael B. Jordan, a thriller directed by "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" helmer Stefano Sollima with a script by “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan. Now read Without Remorse on Fable and watch the trailer!The Mosquito Coast (Apple)
This Apple TV film is adapted from "The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux. It tells the story of a family with a mysterious past that goes on the run. The trailer promises: "At every turn of their adventure, they encounter increasing threats and intensifying moral choices from which there’s no turning back." Just like the main characters he created for his original novel, the great travel writer Paul Theroux took a nonfiction journey through the Americas in his book, "The Old Patagonian Express."Read The Old Patagonian Express on Fable and watch the trailer for The Mosquito Coast:This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist (Netflix)
Journalist Ulrich Boser wrote the definitive account of an art heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, when two thieves committed the largest art heist in history, escaping with one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas.The haul is estimated to be worth as much as $500 million. Netflix released a four-part documentary about the art heist this month, but you should read Ulrich Boser's "The Gardner Heist" for background as you obsess over one of the world's most vexing unsolved mysteries.Read The Gardner Heist on Fable and then watch the trailer for "This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist."Want more recommendations of streaming shows based on books? Check out our blog for monthly lists of books adapted to screen!And if you found a book on our list you like and want to start a Fable Reading Club with friends, learn how to here!