Episode 030 – Rereading

We talk about when, why, (whether), and what we Reread, and what does it all mean? Plus: format shifting for rereads, plays vs. scripts, cover versions of fiction, and the suck fairy.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books We Mentioned

• Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton
• The Kingkiller Chronicle series by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
• The BPRD: Hell on Earth series by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and others
• • A spinoff of the Hellboy series by Mike Mignola and others
• The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
• Grendel by John Gardner (Jessi said “John Green”, but she meant this one)
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• On Trails by Robert Moor
• Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
• The Great Alta series by Jane Yolen
• • Sister Light, Sister Dark
  • White Jenna
  • The One-Armed Queen
• Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon
• The Nintendo Adventure Books series
• The Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
• Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• LaFayette and the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Othello by William Shakespeare
• Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
• • And the movie based on the play
• The Others series by Anne Bishop
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick, graphic novel adaptation by Tony Parker
• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• The Adventures of Tintin series by Hergé
• If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• • And the Hulu show
• The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
• • The movie with Megan Follows
  • Anne, the new TV show
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Links, Articles, and Things

• The Suck Fairy
• 10 Reasons We Reread Our Favorite Books by Sara Jonsson (Barnes & Noble blog)
• The Seven Basic Plots
• The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I.
• A Brief Guide to Tintinology

The magic sound used by Matthew in our endtro is “fairy magic wand” by Robinhood76 from freesound.org.

Questions

• Do you reread books? Why (or why not)? How often?
• What’s a book you wish you could read again for the first time?

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Then come back on Tuesday, July 4th, when we’ll talk about Reading Exhaustion and Reading Slumps.