Have You Gotten Lost in a Good Book Lately?
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Bonjour! Rhonda and Frank are back to discuss what they've read this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about box culture and what to read next. I francois i'm ronda is there a french way to say ronda i don't |
| 0:26.6 | think so ronda okay that's good that's good enough that'll do i'm just giving you a hint as to what book |
| 0:33.6 | i've read oh i was originally going to do the whole thing in French and I was like, |
| 0:38.9 | I don't know enough about French. And then I was going to do an accent and I was like, |
| 0:42.7 | eh, that could be weird. So I just said, Bonjour and Francois. I am intrigued now. |
| 0:49.9 | In true. Yes. Help me through it. That's all I'm telling you. You gave me a hint. Okay. Help me through it that's all i'm telling me a hint okay help me through it yeah |
| 0:57.1 | what's up miss ronda you know everything is everything but uh one thing i did want to mention in terms of |
| 1:07.5 | what's going on in popular culture is i don, you know, watch a lot of the Netflix. |
| 1:14.2 | But in the second installment of their The Haunting series, last year they did the haunting of Hillhouse, |
| 1:23.2 | which was really good. It was very scary. I loved it. Is that based on Shirley Jackson? |
| 1:28.5 | Yes. So I don't know if they're going to do every year. They're going to base it off of a book, |
| 1:33.5 | but this, the one that they just released is called The Haunting of Bly Manor and is based on the |
| 1:41.3 | turn of the screw, which we just talked about. |
| 1:45.3 | That's right. |
| 1:46.5 | Yes. |
| 1:47.2 | And it's interesting because as we discussed, |
| 1:50.7 | you know, there's so many different ways |
| 1:52.8 | to kind of interpret this book. |
| 1:55.2 | And the few episodes that I've watched, |
| 1:57.8 | they've already made some really interesting decisions. |
| 2:01.8 | So I wanted to put that out there. |
| 2:04.5 | Did they make decisions that you could see that related back to the book or they were off |
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