Book Dumb August Braddock and Kendra Lappin

In this episode, the hosts discuss the second part of Hanya Yanagihara's highly anticipated 2022 release, To Paradise. This episode is full of spoilers for the first part and second part of the book (Book One, "Washington Square" and Book Two, "Lipo-Wao-Nahele,"). They share some updates on their plan moving forward handling this book.

(*Huge apologies for any disruptive background noise! We did our best to navigate recording around some major construction happening and didn't want to skip *another* week. We did our best to edit it out.)

In this episode, August and Kendra share a number of their favorite television adaptations of books, as well as some that they would like to watch and/or read.

TV shows listed in this episode:

Sharp objects
Good Omens
Game of Thrones
Sherlock
Station Eleven
Alias Grace
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
Handmaid’s Tale

Honorable mentions:

American Gods
Hannibal
North and South
Haunting of Hill House
Queen’s Gambit
Mindhunter
Shadow & Bone
Little House on the Prairie

To watch/read:

Brideshead Revisited
The Leftovers
Normal People
Little Fires Everywhere
Lovecraft Country
Watchmen
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Firekeeper’s Daughter
Final Girls Support Group
Ninth House

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In this episode, the hosts discuss the first part of Hanya Yanagihara's highly anticipated 2022 release, To Paradise. This episode is full of spoilers for just the first part ("Washington Square"). Stay tuned for further discussion in the coming weeks!

In this episode, the hosts discuss film adaptations of books--the good, the bad, and everything in-between.

Films discussed in the episode:

Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Macbeth (2015)
Sense & Sensibility (1995)
Mystic River (2003)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Anna Karenina (2012)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Gone Girl (2014)
Practical Magic (1998)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2005)
Ella Enchanted (2004)
The Girl on the Train (2016)
The Devil All the Time (2020)
New Moon (2009)
North & South (2004)
A Single Man (2009)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Great Gatsby (1974 & 2013)
Carol (2015)
Emma (2020)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Maurice (1987)
Howard's End (1992)
Little Women (2019)

In this episode, the hosts share the winners of their reading bracket. They do this by choosing a favorite book from each month of 2021 and pit each month against each other. The books knock each other out one by one, until there is a clear winner. August and Kendra have both fiction and nonfiction brackets. And, believe it or not, some of their picks are different from the top 5 of 2021 due to the nature of the bracket knockouts. This episode is completely spoiler-free.

Happy New Year, all! In this episode, the hosts share the books they loved the most this year. In total, they discuss 10 books in total and the episode is completely spoiler-free.

Books mentioned in the episode:

Comfort Me with Apples by Cathrynne M. Valente (2021)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (2019)

A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris (2021)

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (1995)

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (2021)

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (2021)

Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones (1985)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval 2018)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (2019)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (2021)

Stoner by John Williams (1965)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977)

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (2019)

Little Weirds by Jenny Slate (2020)

Maurice by E.M. Forster (1971)

Passing by Nella Larson (1929)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2015)

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (2021)

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991)