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Books Unbound

#221 - Are We Going To Fail Our Goals??

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

Books, Arts

4.8623 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Books Unbound 2023 Reading Survey: https://forms.gle/9c8xkPG7R7SW15nJ6


Booker Prize: https://www.cbc.ca/books/irish-author-paul-lynch-wins-2023-booker-prize-for-dystopian-novel-prophet-song-1.7040668

Giller Prize: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/scotiabank-giller-prize-can-be-a-life-changing-sum-c[…]s-sponsor-s/article_55d2d12e-cfb9-551f-8e91-6fd2f7244fb6.html

Anton Hur's Toward Eternity: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/93049-book-deals-week-of-august-28-2023.html

Governor General Awards: https://ggbooks.ca/#winners

Toronto Public Library: https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/tpl_maintenance/toronto-public-library-website-maintenance.html


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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your hosts us. It's Ariel and Raylene.

0:20.0

Wow. That was almost mocking J.S.

0:23.8

Oh, funny that you say that. I went and saw the new Hunger Games movie yesterday.

0:28.7

And what did you think? Oh, well, to start off the discussion, I mean, I didn't like the book,

0:33.5

so I was bound to not really like the movie just because I don't like the story. And that's pretty much how I felt.

0:41.2

I'm glad I was starting up with such a negative tone for this episode.

0:45.4

There's also a lot of singing in the movie, which I knew was going to happen.

0:48.5

And I don't really like that it was there because I feel like it's annoying.

0:52.8

But I do think that what's her face Rachel

0:55.2

Ziegler I don't know she's her name she did an amazing job like she has an amazing voice I wasn't

1:01.2

expecting it so I was like okay I could just like listen to her saying all day long that's very

1:05.6

interesting I the only thing I know about Rachel Zegler because the other thing other big thing from her is West Side Story right which I didn't see yeah the only thing I know about Rachel Zegler, because the other big thing from her is West Side Story, right?

1:12.7

Which I didn't see. Yeah, the only thing I know about her is her crazy interview she's done for Snow White, where she's just like so mean.

1:20.6

I know. I know. I was like, I had that in the back of my head while watching it. And I was like, you know what? I think she's okay.

1:26.9

Like she was like like I didn't

1:28.6

like dislike her I didn't like like her extraordinarily much on screen but she had a great voice so

1:34.2

that's really interesting because on the other hand one of my close friends says that this is her

1:38.5

favorite hunger games book and her favorite hunger games movie clearly, you know, some people are loving it.

1:46.3

Maybe someone listening, it's their new favorite thing.

1:48.9

And we love you just the same.

1:51.5

I just don't care about President Snow that much, you know?

1:54.0

Like, I just don't care about his story that much.

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