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It's people, choices, and consequences at World War II podcast.net.

Thank you. You're listening to All the More Books, except not really.

This is Vanessa Diaz here to remind you that we are still on our winter break here at All the Books and All the More Books, as well as over at most of our Book Riot podcasts.

But as promised, if you listened to the last episode of the main show, we have lots of little feed drops of other podcast episodes that you think you might enjoy already and lined up for you. Today is December 26th, if you're listening to it on the day that it comes out, and it's the day after Christmas for those who celebrate, it's also Boxing Day. I confess I only learned that has nothing to do with the sport of boxing about five years ago. But moving on. This is that weird holiday in between time where you might have time off. And if you do, maybe you're trying to figure out what to do with your time. Maybe you want to go see a movie. And if that movie is Hamnet, the adaptation of the book by the same name by Maggie O'Farrell, directed by

Chloe Zhao starring Paul Mescal and Jesse Buckley, then today's episode of The Book Riot

Podcasts that we'll be playing for you is probably of particular interest. In it, Rebecca,

and I discuss the film, what we thought of it, how we thought it compares to the book as far as

whether it's a successful adaptation, who it's for, how it stands as a piece of art. It was so fun to participate in this episode and to have a sort of place to point my feelings at. Spoiler alert, I really, really like this book and this movie. So we hope you enjoyed this episode of the Book Riot podcast. Thank you again for listening. We'll be back

next week with more feed drops of more interesting episodes before we're back in January with more

all the books. Thanks. This is the Book Riot podcast. I'm Rebecca Schinsky and I'm joined

today by Book Riot's managing editor, Vanessa Diaz. We have both had the

pleasure, privilege, and sob fest experience of seeing the Hamnet adaptation, thanks to friends

at Focus Features for getting Vanessa access to a screening out in Portland,

and I was able to see it here in a theater in Richmond last week. And we are going to talk about

the adaptation. We've done an episode of Hamnet specifically about the book over in the zero to

well-read feed. If you want to take a deep dive into the book, you can hop over there. But we're going to get

into the movie on its own. How is it as a work of adaptation? Some key differences between the book and

the movie. And some of the discourse that's been happening around the film, we'll wrap up with

talking about who the movie is for, you know, what kind of viewer is going to like

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