Day: August 23, 2021

Television adaptation: Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King

Chapelwaite premiered on Epix on Sunday August 22, 2021. Photo: google

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, “Mr. Mercedes,” won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both “Mr. Mercedes” and “End of Watch” received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016, respectively. King co-wrote the bestselling novel “Sleeping Beauties” with his son Owen King. Several of his books have been adapted into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald’s Game and It. His short story Jerusalem’s Lot has been adapted into the television series Chapelwaite that premiered on Epix on Sunday August 22 and stars Adrien Brody as Captain Charles Boone. (amazon, 2021)

Jerusalem’s Lot is a short story published in Stephen King’s 1978 collection ‘Night Shift.’ It is an epistolary short story set in the fictional town of Preacher’s Corners, Cumberland County, Maine, in 1850. It is told through a series of letters and diary entries, mainly those of its main character, aristocrat Charles Boone, although his manservant, Calvin McCann occasionally narrates.

Chapelwaite – following his wife’s tragic death at sea, Captain Charles Boone and his children return to the small town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine, where a dark family history haunts them.  He is soon forced to confront the darkness that has plagued his family and their ancestral home for centuries.

Jerusalem’s Lot is a short story published in ‘Night Shift.’ Photo: amazon

New book release: ‘One Last Stop’ by Casey McQuiston

‘One Last Stop’ is the new novel by Casey McQuiston. Photo: amazon

Casey McQuiston is The New York Times bestselling author of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” as well as a pie enthusiast. She writes books about smart people with bad manners falling in love. Born and raised in southern Louisiana, she now lives in New York City with her poodle mix and personal assistant, Pepper. Her new book “One Last Stop” is a romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks. (amazon, 2021)

“One Last Stop” – For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories do not exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She cannot imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there is certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.

But then, there is this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there is one big problem: Jane does not just look like an old school punk rocker. She is literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it is time to start believing in some things, after all.