The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao/ before I read the middle Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:56:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://readingtheend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-reading-the-end-with-words-2-32x32.jpg The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao/ 32 32 53371782 Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 76: Forthcoming Literary Adaptations and the Hatening Continues https://readingtheend.com/2017/02/15/reading-end-bookcast-ep-76-forthcoming-literary-adaptations-hatening-continues/ https://readingtheend.com/2017/02/15/reading-end-bookcast-ep-76-forthcoming-literary-adaptations-hatening-continues/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:43:42 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=7852 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,…

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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

NO

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

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For Next Time

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

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

  1. 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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