Last week we talked about our favorite book-related things of 2008; this week we’re listing the stuff we’re most looking forward to in 2009:

Georgette Heyer's mysteries:
Starting in March, we’ll be getting beautiful new reprints of Heyer’s mystery novels, thanks to the fine people at Sourcebooks. In a perfect world, these re-releases would be followed up by the BBC announcing their plans to adapt Heyer's novels for television… but we’ll take what we can get.

The Where The Wild Things Are movie:
We're still a little stunned this movie is even getting made, and we have no idea how we’ll feel about it once we’ve heard more about the plot, but it sure looks pretty.

Boys Before Flowers, the K-drama adaptation of Hana Yori Dango:
We’re already two episodes in, and it’s just as ridiculous (and ridiculously fun) as we’d hoped!

The American release of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea:
There’s no exact release date yet, but we can expect to see Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Hayao Miyazaki's lovely-looking adaptation of The Little Mermaid, before the year is out.

Nodame starting up again:
We don’t begrudge Nodame Cantabile creator Tomoko Ninomiya her maternity leave, but we’re really looking forward to her returning to work. We’re just not built for such hardcore cliffhanger action.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer cartoon:
This project has been dead in the water for years, but it’s been showing some faint signs of life recently. Will 2009 be the year the animated adventures of the BtVS crew finally appear on our TV sets?

Follow-up books:
Suzanne Collins’s 12, Lisa McMann’s Fade, Kelley Armstrong’s The Awakening, David Anthony Durham’s The Other Lands, Rosemary Clement-Moore’s Highway To Hell... 2009 is giving us a bumper crop of hotly anticipated sequels.

The Eoin Colfer-penned addition to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series:
Douglas Adams, alas, has left us—but we have a lot of faith in Mr. Colfer’s ability to write a great installment for this iconic series.

Labels: lists, Year in Review