Jul 10, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
Unless you've been living under a rock, you would have heard of the Sports Romance series Off Campus by Elle Kennedy. In this episode, we delve into the popular book series to help you decide if the…
Aziza SuleimanHost
On the one hand, yeah, I'm really excited that, you know, books that we've all enjoyed and have really bonded with are coming, you know, to the screen and are going to be more available to everybody.
I feel like it also feels a bit protective, a bit protective about some of these books because I would be like...
Like, why do the rest of the world even get to read them? Get to also experience these characters.
And there's also a part of me that, you know, feels a bit of trepidation as well.
It's almost like that feeling you get when your favourite movie is about to be made into a sequel.
And you're almost asking the producers, like, why? Why do you need to do a sequel? Just leave it the way it is.
If they're trying to do a sequel to, you know, any of those classics that you're almost like, please just leave it alone.
And I'm not seeing the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, but people I know who've watched it have pretty much voiced the same sentiment, like...
And that's almost how I feel about some of these TV adaptations of some of these book series.
And I think with the exception of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which is probably the only time that I have seen where the TV adaptation is better, you know, than the book.
But one of those ones, maybe because of my age, I loved it, but I was just like, yeah, great, thank you.
And I just gave it to my daughter because I was like, you know, young adults, right? And I didn't really, I wasn't that bothered about watching the TV season when everybody was making noise about it.
I suspect, in the summer of 2013, I think the reason that was the case was because Jenny Han, the author, was really heavily involved.
On the one hand, yeah, I'm really excited that, you know, books that we've all enjoyed and have really bonded with are coming, you know, to the screen and are going to be more available to everybody.
I feel like it also feels a bit protective, a bit protective about some of these books because I would be like...
Like, why do the rest of the world even get to read them? Get to also experience these characters.
And there's also a part of me that, you know, feels a bit of trepidation as well.
It's almost like that feeling you get when your favourite movie is about to be made into a sequel.
And you're almost asking the producers, like, why? Why do you need to do a sequel? Just leave it the way it is.
If they're trying to do a sequel to, you know, any of those classics that you're almost like, please just leave it alone.
And I'm not seeing the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, but people I know who've watched it have pretty much voiced the same sentiment, like...
And that's almost how I feel about some of these TV adaptations of some of these book series.
And I think with the exception of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which is probably the only time that I have seen where the TV adaptation is better, you know, than the book.
But one of those ones, maybe because of my age, I loved it, but I was just like, yeah, great, thank you.
And I just gave it to my daughter because I was like, you know, young adults, right? And I didn't really, I wasn't that bothered about watching the TV season when everybody was making noise about it.
I suspect, in the summer of 2013, I think the reason that was the case was because Jenny Han, the author, was really heavily involved.
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