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Welcome to SeeingRead! Where your hosts, Jim & Kelly, tackle the age old millennial question: was the book really better than the movie?! Enjoy being wrong!

Seeing Read with Jim & Kelly Jim Culhane & Kelly McMurray

    • Arts
    • 5.0 • 15 Ratings

Welcome to SeeingRead! Where your hosts, Jim & Kelly, tackle the age old millennial question: was the book really better than the movie?! Enjoy being wrong!

    The Handmaid's Tale

    The Handmaid's Tale

    Ladies, are modern day options crippling? Do you spend way too much time deciding between which primary color to wear and enjoy the thrill of voting against your basic needs? Well do we have a future for you!Kelly puts all her eggs in Margaret Atwood's basket. This Canadian author wrote a long form poem that chills, maybe not thrills, but certainly instills a fear for our future autonomy. We humans need love, touch, communication, and most importantly...to read. Apparently "my body my choice"...

    • 2 hr 2 min
    The Cuckoo's Calling

    The Cuckoo's Calling

    It's a bird! No, it's a plane! No, it's just a supermodel swan diving off the balcony. Some might call it foul play so it's up to a British sleuth(s)and these American readers to get to the bottom of it. But first, let's hit the pub and pick up a special guest to help us solve the murder of the teleplay for the Cormoran Strike Series.Kelly has found a friend to help defend JKRowling's pseudonym and detective series. She'd use their pronouns but that might not jive with the author. Regardless,...

    • 1 hr 40 min
    Fifty Shades of Grey

    Fifty Shades of Grey

    Is that love in the air? Gross, put my ball gag back in for some autoerotic asphyxiation. Welcome to Fifty Shades of Grey, a book and movie as vibrant as its slate color scheme. XXX content? More like Zzz's. EL James might not know what BDSM is or how a 21 year old woman talks, but that didn't stop her from riff'ing off Twilight. Kelly could defend her...but in the words of the author "Holy Cow, it's so hard." Thesaurus' were spanked within an inch of their limit and e-mails tied up the ...

    • 1 hr 39 min
    Atonement

    Atonement

    Thirteen year old girls can really put the "me" in migraines. Been there, done that. But since it's January and the play is cancelled let's solve a mystery and accidentally doom a few lives while we're at it. It was the Gardener in the Library with the Vase! The Chocolate War Profiteer in the garden! No, it's not Clue, it's the saddest love story that never was. Ian McEwan rewrote a young girl's history at the cost of her geriatric neurological health. Spoiler alert: sad. Maybe some friendly ...

    • 1 hr 36 min
    The Color Purple

    The Color Purple

    Dear God,What did postage stamps cost back in the 80s? 11 Oscar nominations? Danny Glover's dignity? One thing's for sure, after the film adaption, Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple demanded to be "returned to sender." Kelly is sending love letters to Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning book. It might be a little more gritty, but it's a heavenly trip to finding your self worth. Even Jimmy admits that you can pick up the beautiful sentiments- to not to is a sin.The film introduced t...

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    It's that time of year to gather with your family and gobble gobble up a nonfiction book to educate yourself on those who were robbed of theirs. This isn't Hallmark's version of the first Thanksgiving, but we're certainly gonna be serving some facts along with that cholesterol. Can a Scorsese adaption bring heart to a broken hearth or does it take a true crime book to make you grateful for the FBI? It's time for Killers of the Flower Moon.Kelly is doomed to repeat history as yet another white...

    • 1 hr 28 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
15 Ratings

15 Ratings

caitlin & co ,

such a great podcast!

this pod is perfect to listen to if youre a movie and a book person! i can’t wait to hear what they will discuss next

Kmcmurr ,

Spoilers and Unfounded Opinions? Sign me up!

The first rule of Seeing Read is you talk to everyone you know about Seeing Read!

I’m a split book/movie lover. I love what my imagination creates, but enjoy the sensory stimulation and power a well produced movie holds. I’m looking forward to hearing these two budding comedians duke it out over some of our cultural milestones.

Also, I love spoilers and cliff notes and sycophants who agree with my opinion on books and movies. Sign me up.

cecijayo ,

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Can’t wait to binge every single podcast episode.

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