Book News: Universal Options Gayle Forman's Duology

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal has optioned Gayle Forman's duology Just One Day and Just One Year, with plans to combine them into one movie. Also, Fake Empire is set to develop, and Gayle Forman will executive produce. Fake Empire was formed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who also developed Gossip Girl. Josh Schwartz also created and executive produced The O.C.. I'm so excited about this as The O.C. and Gossip Girl were both guilty pleasures of mine during high school and college.

Just One Day is the story of Allyson Healey's European vacation, where she meets and spends a day with the unpredictable and carefree Willem. Just One Year picks up somewhat during the middle of Just One Day and is Willem's story.

Gayle Forman's If I Stay hit theaters this summer and will be released on DVD on November 18, 2014. I LOVED If I Stay, even though I don't usually enjoy sad books. I really liked the movie, too. I can't wait to see more of her books made into movies!

Links

Gayle Forman
Website
Twitter
Goodreads

Books
Just One Day
Just One Year
If I Stay

Movie
If I Stay

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Waiting on Wednesday (65): I Was Here by Gayle Forman

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.



Title: I Was Here
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Viking Juvenile (Penguin)
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.

When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.

I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.


Gayle Forman's If I Stay is the only reason I consider reading books about loss and grief. Her follow-up, Where She Went, and her next series, Just One Day, convinced me that Forman is one of the best YA authors I've read and put her on my auto-read list. Since this comes out on my birthday, I'll be buying this as a birthday present.

What are you waiting on this week?

Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors Read In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read in 2013



1. Harper Lee
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
I can’t believe I waited until after I graduated from law school and became a lawyer before I ever read this book. This really is a book that everyone should read as it displays the best and worst of humans in general and Americans in particular – bravery and honesty and racism and hatred.