Ep 17 - Crowbar the Movie out of Your Brain: Movie Adaptations and Author Shrabani Basu

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🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This episode, Brea and Mallory talk about book to movie adaptations, interview author Shrabani Basu, and help you read with motion sickness. Participate in discussion online with the hashtag #BookAdaptations! Links - Book Out http://bookoutapp.com/ Libby (Sponsor) https://meet.libbyapp.com/ Shrabani Basu http://www.shrabanibasu.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/shrabanibasu https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525434412 Books - Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374537142 Broken Harbor by Tana French https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143123309 Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781935169185 Forrest Gump by Winston Groom https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307947390 The Parent Trap by Erich Kastner https://www.amazon.com/Parent-Trap-Erich-Kastner/dp/1782690557 Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101972120 It by Stephen King https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501142970 Under the Skin by Michael Faber https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156011600 The Mountain Between Us by Charlies Martin https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780767927024 Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142412145 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062073501 Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374104092 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743247542/Jeannette-Walls/Glass-Castle

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0:00.0	You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed
0:09.4	to help you read better.
0:10.8	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera.
0:13.6	And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.
0:16.2	This episode, we're talking about book to movie adaptations and interviewing author Shabani Basu.
0:20.8	But first, what are you reading, Bria? I'm reading Lives of the Monster
0:25.6	Dog. I'm recommended by you on this very show. I can't remember which episode it was.
0:30.4	Dogs with Hands. It was one of the early episodes. Yeah it was it was
0:33.0	it's written by Kirsten Bacchus
0:35.0	it came out in 1997
0:37.0	but it was re-released recently
0:40.0	Yeah, although I'm reading it in e-book form so I could possibly be the
0:42.5	1997 version I'm actually not totally sure but it's amazing it's about it's so it's like
0:48.4	so bria if you didn't see here the earlier episode I'll just do a quick
0:51.5	recap because obviously if you did you already
0:54.1	know what this book is about but it's about a bunch of dogs that have been turned into basically
0:58.6	mad science experiments in a small town in Canada they were created to be the perfect soldiers by giving them voice boxes and hands.
1:08.0	Which is just, that's Bria's dream.
1:10.0	And then they all escape and move to New York City and they meet a woman who
1:14.2	documents was going on with them and so it's sort of from both of their points of
1:17.2	view and I just wrote an entire chapter that is a sort of play sonnet about their lives it's really fantastic and they're very proper
1:25.4	and wear you know fur coats over their fur which is very strange and it's it's
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