 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday where I choose a list of 5 books, movies, media, whatever, and tell you why they are my top 5 whatever. Get it? Today we're talking about books that would make great movies. Let's get into it. Number 5. At number 5 we have The Glorious Heresies. This is one of those books that came out of nowhere for me. Back in the day they had a thing, Crown Publishing, called Blogging for Books. That was back when I actually had a blog that I wrote every single day. A lot has changed. I don't have time for that anymore. So we have the videos! Yay! Anyways, so The Glorious Heresies is a very, very small story. It was one of those stories that focuses mainly on the characters. But I do remember quite vividly how well the scenes were painted in the book. And it even brings a smile to my face to this day. I read it like over 5 years ago, I think. Hold me accountable. Go check when I reviewed it. The review is up on the channel. I talk about what I like about in the book. I also got a Goodreads review. You can go check that out for more in-depth reasons why I love that book so much. It's also in my top 5 books nobody ever talks about. I think that's what it's called or underrated books, whatever it's called. But this is one of those ones. Ever since I read it, I wanted to see it as a movie and I think it would fit beautifully as like an IFC kind of deal. A very independent movie, very small story, I dig it very, very much. If you have not read the book, I highly recommend that you go out and try to find it. Oh, by the way, this is the book. It is by Lisa McInery. Yeah. Lisa McInery. If you can hear Rain in the background, I apologize. You're just going to have to deal with it because I don't have any other time to shoot videos. Thank you. Number 4. And at number 4 of books that should be made into movies right now is Eleanor by Jason Gurley. This is another one, oddly enough, that came from Crown Publishing 4 of you. I absolutely adored it. It's like a Neil Gaiman-esque kind of fantasy about a woman's grief and her child trying to save a dead sibling and get her mother out of depression. And you drop into this rabbit hole like none other. There's these beautiful, beautiful set pieces of like asteroids coming down. And it's absolutely wonderful. And you're not entirely sure, well, I guess you are sure throughout most of it whether or not it's real or not. But the journey that this child goes through, and I'm pretty sure that's the child, yes. Identical twins, by the way. She's trying to save her identical twin, or I'm not going to give you too much. The visuals alone in this one are striking. They're startling. They're amazing. There's horror. There's drama. There's comedy. There's everything in this book. It is mostly overall about depression, and it is very dark and sad. So keep that in mind if you read it. But it needs to be made a move, no. Number 3. And at number 3 we have book by one of my favorite authors of all time, Victor Laval. We're talking about the changeling. Yeah. Okay, so the changeling, I want to see this made into a movie for one specific reason. And that is the ending. There's a major scene at the ending that is just, actually there's two scenes. One of them I remember something coming up over a hill. Like it's, you know, well, from the other side of the hill, but you can't see it. And then finally you do actually see it. It's amazing. I just want to see it. I just want to see it. I saw it in my head. It was wonderfully described. It's amazing. But I would love to just be able to watch a Blu-ray or something and just go to the movies and see it. We can never go back to the movies. This is one of those stories I get excited about, as you can tell. Every single time I think about it, I mean, there's numerous fantastic scenes that would make great cinema. So get on it. Hollywood. Changeling. Victor Laval. Number 2. And number 2, we have Sing Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. Why the F isn't this book? Why the fuck isn't it a movie? I don't understand. Fantastic story that the ending, once again, just like I said with the changing, I would love to see that on camera. There's a very, I don't want to say surreal, there's surreal. There's some craziness going on that I got, I loved. The best part, I think it's the best part of the whole book is the ending. The drama and everything leading up to that and the little hints and whatnot about whether or not it could be heading in that direction. I love that a lot. There's a scene where, I can't remember if the car breaks down the side of the road or if the child gets sick. There's a scene in there that has something to do with I think the child getting sick. That's one of my, that's the second favorite scene of the book. But I think it would also be hard to make this movie because of the themes. Like now anyways, Hollywood's been kinda, if it's not a Marvel movie, they don't really want to put anything too much behind it if it's a dark story because people need escapism. So I wouldn't suggest it being made now, it should have been made right around the time it first came out. But yeah, sing unburied sing. If you have not read this by Jesmyn Ward, if you have not read this, what do you even do on your life? Number one. And at number one are books that I don't have in front of me because I'm waiting on the hard covers to come. I had them in paperback and audiobook. I love it in them so much I had to go out and get the hard cover and that's the Dandelion Dynasty series so far by Ken Liu. There's of course The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms, they are both fantastic and when this is done the real throne comes out later this year in November. We're gonna read it. Talani, me and you, we're gonna read it. Okay, love this fantasy series and if you know me, you know I hate fantasy so that's saying something. So if you like fantasy you may not like this. I don't know. Talani over at Tea Time reads. She loved it also. She's a huge fantasy buff whereas me, I hate fantasy but I end up loving this maybe because it's bloody red. I don't know. I tried buddy reading that second Robert Jordan book and I still have flashbacks. Anyways, so but the, this story is just begging for a cinematic treatment and I hope once it gets done that somebody picks this up whether it be a mini series on one of the like HBO Max or Netflix, any company, I don't care, just throw all the money at this series. I loved everything about it and I want to see it as a movie. That's why this is my number one but have you read any of these books on this list? Would you like to see them be made into movies or what are some books that you think would make fantastic movies? Let me know down there in the doobly-doo and until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another Top 5 Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.