![]() ![]() ![]() And they will find that it has the tenor of young-adult reading, with a special nod to the occult and to role-playing games based on priggish, elaborate protocol. None of this hype betrayed any awareness of the “Today” show audience demographic.īut what about the newly minted “Today” show book club members? They have to read this thing. Time constraints presumably kept “Today” from dropping the fact that Ms. Rowling share a British publisher (though not an American one) and that “The Bone Season” has been optioned by a production company linked to Andy Serkis, a k a Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” films. Shannon intends a seven-book series, just as J. We learned that it bears some resemblance to “The Hunger Games” that Ms. That’s because “The Bone Season” leapt out to “Today” as a human interest story, not as a book. Not one bit of the five-minute segment concerned exactly what Ms. Seated in front of a backdrop on which the words “Call me Ishmael” were clearly visible, the “Today” team explained how a debut novel by a 21-year-old unknown had snagged this distinction. The big moment came a week ago when the NBC morning show “Today” announced that it, too, was starting a book club, presumably because so many of its competitors have them, and anointed Samantha Shannon’s novel, “The Bone Season,” its first pick. The book club craze may have hit its nadir. ![]()
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