Season 2, Episode 37: Books that Become Movies, and Whether We Love or Hate Them

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:

Bookish Moments: the COVID(eo) with kids recording and podcast messages during the coronavirus "situation"
Current Reads: each of us shares three books we've been reading lately and there's a bit of sass in here about the buddy read we recently did together
Deep Dive: Books to movies… the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Book Presses: we've got a favorite author who has been reading his books aloud on Facebook, as well as a bonus book to movie pick!

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!

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Bookish Moments:

1:56 - Our third COVID(eo) with our kids!

Current Reads:

5:08 - Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

10:40 - White Bird by R.J. Palacio

10:46 - Wonder by R.J. Palacio

12:30 - A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd

15:39 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

15:57 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler

22:28 - The World's Largest Man by Harrison Scott Key

23:29 - Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

26:27 - Love and Luck (Love and Gelato #2) by Jenna Evans Welch

27:59 - Love and Gelato (Love and Gelato #1) by Jenna Evans Welch

Deep Dive - Books to Movies:

29:08 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (TV Series)

29:27 - Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (movie)

31:03 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (movie)

32:22 - The Godfather by Mario Puzo (movie)

35:02 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2019 version) (the one I watched as a kid) (the one Meredith loves)

37:27 - Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler (Netflix series)

39:31 - Matilda by Roald Dahl (movie)

42:11 - Holes by Louis Sachar (movie)

43:47 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman (movie)

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

48:20 - On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson

50:48 - Night one of his readaloud on Facebook

51:26 - The Martian by Andy Weir

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading Podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know we will not shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready.
0:24.0	We're lying on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:26.4	and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.
0:29.5	We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish divide,
0:31.7	and press a book into your hands.
0:33.8	I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and sitting outside with a book
0:39.0	makes my heart happy.
0:41.6	And I'm Mindy Brows, a mom to seven, reading and hiking in the mountains of New Mexico,
0:45.6	and I'd rather read just about anything rather than watch the Tiger King.
0:49.3	And even my very best bookish friends and Rob Lowe cannot convince me otherwise.
0:54.0	That was a lot Mindy.
0:56.0	All right, this is episode number 37 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here.
1:01.0	Mindy's bringing the heat right here at the out at the outset.
1:05.6	Starting it off. All right good time. So today we are going to be addressing an age-old question. Are there any movies that are as
1:15.8	great as the books that they are based upon? There are a lot of great movies and
1:20.3	there are a lot of great books but do they ever intersect? That's the real question today, right?
1:27.7	So I have a theory that this might turn into an ongoing series but for today today, we are just gonna dip our toes in
1:34.5	with our first few picks in this area
1:36.8	because there's a lot of fodder for this discussion.
1:40.2	And there'll be a lot of strong opinions.
1:41.8	Oh, I think there will be. I completely agree with you.
1:45.2	All right, but first we're going to get started the way we always do, which is with our bookish
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