The Katniss Konundrum

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

To prequel or not to prequel? Frank and Gwen debate the new installment of the Hunger Games franchise and two very different books about life in two very different places.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen.
0:19.0	And we're Frank. And we're back. We're so happy to be back. A full episode. Here we go. Here we go. I think we've cooked up some good stuff for the future, too. I hope so. Suddenly I'm devoid of emotion. I was so full of love and missing you. And now, I don't know. I'm just emotionally having a reaction.
0:38.4	I have to pull it.
0:39.9	I'm like pulling my ear nervously.
0:33.8	Didn't some famous person do that? Carol Burnett. Thank you. She would tug her ear to indicate everything was okay. Maybe that's what I'm doing. Everything's okay. Everything's okay. Don't, oh, before. Lost and alone. Okay, I'm back. Um,
0:35.7	think about Bunny,
0:38.5	which is coming up on August 8th.
0:39.1	Our challenge.
0:39.4	Yes,
0:56.4	we hope that you... Lost and alone. Okay, I'm back. Think about Bunny, which is coming up on August 8th.
0:57.0	Our challenge.
1:00.2	Yes, we hope that you are thinking about reading along with us.
1:02.1	Or our book club, sort of.
1:06.2	Our summer reading challenge, our pre-book club book, or whatever you want to call it,
1:08.9	we're all going to read it together and it's going to be super fun.
1:29.6	So if you have not tried to start tracking it down yet, give it a shot. Bunny by Mona Awad. That's August 8th. That's August 8th. All right. All right. So Gwen. Frank. What's the news? Any gossip for me, darling? Yes, as a matter of fact. We have a hot topic. Let's do a hot topic what do you say a hot talk i think it sounds great um we both read this article about the hunger
1:36.2	game's prequel right right right right um and we wanted to talk about it i think partly because
1:42.3	when i initially heard pre-podcast that the Hunger Games was coming out with a prequel, it made me roll my eyes.
1:49.6	What was your initial reaction?
1:51.7	Same.
1:52.5	I mean, I think the same.
1:55.1	I've thought a lot about this now at this point, but, you know, well, what's the first thing you thought? Money. Yeah, exactly.
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