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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 76: Forthcoming Literary Adaptations and the Hatening Continues

Gin Jenny — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:43:42 +0000

Happy Wednesday! This week’s episode is FULL OF THINGS, including another sea-or-space update (you’re welcome), our run-down of recent and forthcoming TV and movie adaptations of books, and the conclusion of the Second Annual Hatening. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 76

What We’re Reading

Wildlife, Fiona Wood

(I also mentioned YA authors Melina Marchetta and Stephanie Perkins. Stephanie Perkins wrote Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Isla and the Happily Ever After)

Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, and the Search for Stability, Ibrahim Sundiata
The Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins
City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg

Sea or Space Update

Learn more about this Mauritius gravity situation here!

Literary Adaptations

Riverdale (CW)¹
Emerald City (NBC)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)

MAYBE

Legion (FX)

YESSSSSSSS

Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix)
The Dark Tower (movie!)
The Expanse (Syfy)
Powerless (NBC)
Murder on the Orient Express (movie!)
John Wick comic (this is a reverse one! movie-to-book adaptation!)
Logan (movie)

(I have been trying to get Whiskey Jenny to watch this heartwarming video of Patrick Stewart for years. She won’t watch it because she says she doesn’t want to cry.)

Second Annual Hatening, Part 2

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

For Next Time

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Since recording the podcast, I saw this video with the actor who’s playing Jughead, where he says that the show isn’t going to make Jughead ace. Oh well. The CW has lots of other shows I can watch instead. ↩

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.75: Spring Book Preview and the Second Annual Hatening

Gin Jenny — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:48:18 +0000

Happy Wednesday! We’ve got a very giggly episode for you today, in which the Jennys supply a sea-or-space update, run down the books we’re excited about for spring, and launch the Second Annual Hatening. There is also some genuinely gold listener mail. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 75

What We’re Reading

The Boy is Back, Meg Cabot
Monstress, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Winter 2016 Books

Angel Catbird, Margaret Atwood and Johnny Christmas
Cul-de-Sac, Robert Repino
Everfair, Nisi Shawl
Float, Anne Carson
They Can’t Kill Us All, Wesley Lowery
Swing Time, Zadie Smith

Spring 2017 Preview

Dreadnought, April Daniels
Black Hammer, Jeff Lemire (bonus selection!)
Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke
Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hannah Tinti
The Ship Beyond Time, Heidi Heilig
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Benjamin Alire Saenz
Lower Ed, Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
Void Star, Zachary Mason
You’re Welcome, Universe, Whitney Gardner

The Second Annual Hatening, Part One

The Easter Parade, Richard Yates

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 68: Sea or Space, Lone Wolves, and Zoraida Cordova’s Labyrinth Lost

Gin Jenny — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:10:13 +0000

Another Wednesday, and proper fall still has not come to Louisiana. Luckily I had podcast editing to take my mind off it. Whiskey Jenny says to please apologize to you all for her slight audible congestion; she was fighting off a very bad cough throughout recording and managed valiantly, all things considered. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 68

Peter Freuchen’s appearance on The 64,000 Question

What We’re Reading

The Fade-Out, Ed Brubaker,
The Hairdresser of Harare, Tendai Huchu
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos, Priyamvada Natarajan

Lone Wolves

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black
The Big Sleep (et al), Raymond Chandler
The Spellman Files (et al), Lisa Lutz
The Cuckoo’s Calling (et al), Robert Galbraith
The Thief (et al), Megan Whalen Turner
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

Picaresques (ugh)

Huck Finn, Mark Twain
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Confederacy Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

Labyrinth Lost, Zoraida Cordova

For next time: “The Screwfly Solution,” by James Tiptree Jr. and “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi,” by Pat Cadigan

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

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