Popcorn Book Club

It's the very first episode of our show about books that have been getting the Hollywood treatment! Our first read: Normal People by Sally Rooney, now a series on Hulu. Read along with us! Or don't — this isn't English class, we won't tell.

In the first part of our discussion, we talk Marianne at high school, and why we'll never forgive Connell for not taking her to Debs.

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(Our next book will be I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb if you want to read along)

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A group of smart, funny friends meet together every week to talk about the book they’re reading—a book that just so happens to be incredibly buzzy and in the zeitgeist because it has a big screen adaptation coming up. Because when everyone at work is talking about it, we want to be the smug ones who can say we actually read the book first.

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It's tragedy bingo from our friend, Wally Lamb. Infant death, child pornography, rape, murder, suicide... am I missing anything?

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Next week, we'll wrap up chapters 15 - 30 if you want to keep up.

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One of the cool things about doing a show about books by contemporary writers is that...they are contemporaries. Like, if you have a question about Frankenstein, you can’t go ask Mary Shelley, she’s dead. But after our conversations about The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, we all had questions. And so we asked her! We’ve been really excited to bring you this episode because as you’re about to hear, Angie Thomas is brilliant and cool and nice and everything you’d hope for in a young adult author. This week, she’ll talk to us about what it’s like seeing your work adapted to the screen.

Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still lives in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a former teen rapper... and we will get into that. The Hate U Give is her debut novel and is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Of course she is a working writer, and her second novel, On The Come Up, is on shelves now.

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Over the past couple weeks, we’ve been talking about the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier—it’s a story about murder, obsession, and finding out the person closest to you harbors an awful secret. Honestly, it already sounds like a Hitchcock movie. And so sure enough, we’re taking in some Screen Time this week with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film adaptation to talk about the charm of the Transatlantic accent, and how the Master of Suspense diverged from the book.

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Still ahead, we'll have Screen Time with the 2020 Netflix adaptation of Rebecca (oh we have thoughts...), we'll also pick up where we left off with HBO's Lovecraft Country, and we'll start in on our next book, V For Vendetta!

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