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From the Front Porch

Episode 8 || Books vs. Movies

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by guest Rebekah Arwood, manager of The Bookshelf in Thomasville. Rebekah and Annie chat about that ever-controversial topic: Is the book better than the movie? The discussion runs the gamut, from the newly-released Gone Girl to The Hunger Games, Great Gatby to Little Women (which Rebekah and Annie both identify as a wintertime classic).  - Gillian Flynn wrote her own screenplay for her bestselling novel Gone Girl; here are more novelists that could follow in her steps. - We think Jane Austen would love both The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved, two web adaptations by Pemberly Digital, a company devoted to using new media to adapt classic works of literature.  - The Bookshelf Film Society meets once a quarter to discuss the film adaptations of books; local film professor Lisa Mitchell guides the discussion each month. Join us!

Transcript

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0:17.0

Welcome to episode 8 of From the Front Porch. I'm Annie Jones and I'm joined today by bookshelf manager Rebecca Arwood. We'll be discussing books versus movies and how our favorite works of literature have been translated into film and whether or not we agree with those

0:24.8

translations.

0:25.8

Stick around for the discussion. Rebecca. Welcome to my hypothetical from porch.

0:37.0

Hi.

0:42.0

So those of you who don't know this podcast is of course called

0:45.4

from the front porch but we record inside my home because of all the

0:49.0

school children and the barking dogs and this is Rebecca's first time on the show. So welcome

0:53.9

Rebecca. Thank you, glad to be here. Rebecca is our manager at the

0:58.0

bookshelf. She also is a student. Tell us what you are studying,

1:01.9

Rebecca.

1:03.0

I am currently finishing up an associate's degree in early childhood education at our local technical

1:08.4

college, Southwest Georgia Tech.

1:10.4

So Rebecca's kind of expertise in the store is young adult and children's literature.

1:16.4

I think those are your two favorite sections in the story.

1:18.6

Definitely.

1:19.6

Okay, Rebecca's kind of our middle reader guru I feel like.

1:23.2

I feel like you really keep your tabs on that section.

1:25.6

And then she reads a lot of YA.

1:27.2

So when Katie and I were talking about doing this

1:31.6

discussion about books and film.

1:33.6

Katie was kind of wary because I guess Katie does not see very many movies.

1:38.4

And to be fair, we're kind of a booky group.

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