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Episode 427
Live or Die-brary
In this episode, we take a page from an old episode to discuss tropes and themes in books that we want to check out versus the ones that are way past their due date. Plus we share which book adaptations we think are spineless and which adaptations are bound to happen.
In this episode, we take a page from an old episode to discuss tropes and themes in books that we want to check out versus the ones that are way past their due date. Plus we share which book adaptations we think are spineless and which adaptations are bound to happen.
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- Let’s be IRL friends! Our live shows will be in April but tickets go on sale next week! Visit KnoxandJamie.com/live for more info.
- Happy 3rd birthday, The Wandering Years!
- Way back: Episode 230: Live or Die-brary
- Recommendations galore: see all Knox and Jamie’s green lights
- Fact check bear attack survival: Brown lay down, Black fight back
- Books referenced: Zombies Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt | Final Girls by Riley Sager | Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover
- Iconic: Drew Barrymore in Scream (1996)
- Oh no: Interview with the Vampire is being rebooted
- Book adaptations that are great: Children of Men (book series) & Children of Men (movie) | Little Women (book) & Little Women (Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film) | Outlander (book series) & Outlander (tv series) | Don’t Let the Pigeon (book series) & Don’t Let the Pigeon (tv series)
- Book adaptations we want to see: Station Eleven | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Where the Crawdads Sing | Peter Pan | Persuasion | White Noise | The Nightingale | The Fortunate Ones | The Midnight Library | 1 and 2 Samuel | Dark Matter | My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Red light mentions: Oprah’s Favorite Things 2021 | movie: Last Night in Soho
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