Episode 138 - Adaptations

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Adaptations! We discuss (the fictional) Junji Ito's Anne of Green Gables, The Muppets presents Dune the Musical, bad wigs in adaptations, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Appleberry

Media We Mentioned

• Peter and the Wolf (Wikipedia)
• Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wikipedia)
• Spider-Man in film (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Ham
• Spider-Verse (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Man (Japanese TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • Spiders-Man (Wikipedia)
• The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings (film series) (Wikipedia)
  • Lord of the Rings - trailer (YouTube)
• Harry Potter (film series) (Wikipedia)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - trailer (YouTube)
• Batman in film (Wikipedia)
• Spider-Men (Wikipedia)
• Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) (Wikipedia)
• Highlander (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Frankenstein by Junji Ito
• Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Dune (1984) - trailer (YouTube)
  • Dune (2021) - trailer (YouTube)
• Muppet Treasure Island - trailer (YouTube)
• Muppet Christmas Carol - trailer (YouTube)
• The Music Man (Wikipedia)
  • The Music Man - trailer (YouTube)
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • The Princess Bride - trailer (YouTube)
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Wikipedia)
  • Cassandra Cain (Wikipedia)
• Little Shop of Horrors - (Wikipedia)
• Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
  • Parasite Eve - video game (Wikipedia)
• The Witcher (Wikipedia)
  • The Witcher (TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
• The Lego Movie (Wikipedia)
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  • Golden Compass - trailer (YouTube)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
  • Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - trailer (YouTube)
• BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• The Dark Tower (2017 film) (Wikipedia)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - trailer (YouTube)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - trailer (YouTube)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Alice in Wonderland - trailer (YouTube)
• You (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • Twilight - trailer (YouTube)
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Lovely War by Julie Berry
• The Illusionist - trailer (YouTube)
• The Prestige - trailer (YouTube)
• Seven (1995 film) (Wikipedia)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Wikipedia)
• West Side Story (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Desert Bus
• Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)
• The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End (BoardGameGeek)
  • There are three different Pirates of the Caribbean version of the Game of Life
• Resource Description and Access (Wikipedia)
• Storm - X-Men character (Wikipedia)
• Mystique - X-Men character (Wikipedia)
• Five laws of library science (Wikipedia)
  • “Every book its reader.”

18 Metafiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
• Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima by Hideo Furukawa
• Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
• Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
• The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
• Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
• Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Thrillers!

Then on Tuesday, December 21st it’s our Best Books we Read in 2021 episode!