For this week’s edition of “Inspired By”, we chose five of our favorite books-turned-movies  we love! Which one if your favorite?

 

Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan firm, Rachel White is the consummate good girl.  Always playing by the rules since grade school, Rachel accepts the sidekick role in her lopsided friendship with Darcy.  Everything suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday, when Rachel confesses her feelings to Darcy’s fiancé. 

 

The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

Pat has a theory that his life is a movie produced by God, and his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, leading to the return of his estranged wife Nikki.  After spending time in a mental health facility, Pat has returned home and everything feels off.  No one will talk to him about Nikki, his Eagles continue to lose, and now he is being pursued by an odd woman.

 

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be.  By age thirteen, Anna has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions and shots so her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood.  As a product of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate.  Anna decides something that for most would be unthinkable–a decision that will tear her family apart and perhaps have fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

 

In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner

Rose, is a thirty-year-old attorney is a hopeless romantic who dreams for a man who will slide off her glasses and tell her she’s beautiful.  Maggie is twenty-eight and drop-dead gorgeous, and dreams of being an MTV video girl.  These two sisters have nothing in common, besides DNA, a childhood tragedy, and a shoe size, but when they are forced into cohabitation, they may just learn they’re more alike than they thought.

 

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Clare is a beautiful and strong-minded art student, and Henry is an adventuresome librarian. Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one.  Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chronic-Displacement Disorder: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future.

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