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Season 5: Adaptations - What makes a good book adaptation, our favorite adaptations, and our season 5 books

Season 5: Adaptations - What makes a good book adaptation, our favorite adaptations, and our season 5 books

Update: 2025-01-29
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In this episode we introduce our theme for the season: adaptations! We discuss some of the best and worst adaptations we've seen, what makes a good adaptation, and the new trends in book adaptations. And, of course, we share what we'll be reading (and watching!) over the next few months for Season 5.


Books and movies mentioned:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Wicked

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

10 Things I Hate About You

She's the Man

The Lion King

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Mufasa

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Emma by Jane Austen

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Antigone by Sophocles

All's Well by Mona Awad


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Season 5: Adaptations - What makes a good book adaptation, our favorite adaptations, and our season 5 books

Season 5: Adaptations - What makes a good book adaptation, our favorite adaptations, and our season 5 books