April 6, 2024, by Annemijn Heijstek

Barts Book Club: these books are better than the series

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April 6, 2024, by Annemijn Heijstek

Barts Book Club: these books are better than the series

Many of the films and series you watch on your favorite streaming service are based on a book. Of course, we at Barts Book Club are firmly convinced that the books are better than the series. If you ask us, it is always better to read the book than watch the film adaptation, but we also understand that an evening of Netflix on the couch is also very chill. What should you really read instead of watch? Well, at least these three titles:

One Day – David Nicholls

One Day – David Nicholls

There's a good chance you've already seen the Netflix hit 'One Day'. A beautiful series, but believe us: the book is even more beautiful. 'One Day' follows the lives of Dexter and Emma, ​​who meet for the first time on July 15, 1988. Afterwards, writer David Nicholls returns to that date again and again as he chronicles their relationship in the years that follow. Even if you have already seen the series (or the 2011 film with Anne Hathaway), this book is worth reading.

The Summer When Everything Changed – Jenny Han

The Summer When Everything Changed – Jenny Han

Doesn't the title ring a bell? You probably know it as 'The summer I turned pretty', the English title for the book and the TV series. In the book you follow 16-year-old Belly, who spends the summer every year with her mother and brother at the house of her mother's best friend and her two sons, Jeremiah and Conrad. A delicious one coming of agetrilogy full of budding loves. The series deviates from the book in quite a few ways, so our advice? Read the book of course!

 

When You Can't See the Light – Anthony Doerr

When You Can't See the Light – Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr's bestseller is written from the perspective of a blind French girl and a young German soldier during World War II. The book is extremely impressive and makes you think about what is right and wrong, and whether such a thing even exists. The Netflix film adaptation, 'All the Light We Cannot See', does not do it justice, to say the least. Skip from your watch list, add to your reading list!

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