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March 01, 2020 038 - Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
Gen and Jette talk about Shea Serrano's Movies (And Other Things) and go off on many movie tangents.
Show Notes:
You know we love The Ringer
Yes - Jette's favourite movie is Requiem for a Dream and yes maybe that says something about her.
There is just too much to even put in the notes here so just give it a listen ;)
We aren't making a list of the movies we talked about because there were just too many.

Fun Chapter Titles:
Were The Jurassic Park Raptors Just Misunderstood?
Which Movie Had A More Intense Opening - FACE/OFF or Finding Nemo?
Who Is In The Perfect Heist Movie Crew?
When Did Michael B Jordan Break Your Heart Into The Most Pieces?
54 min
February 18, 2020 037 - Another Cup of Tea - A Winter Hangout
Show Notes:
January was the entire year and February is over, go back to our Eating the Dinosaur episode for more on how time is fake.
Our new podcast, Teenage Daydream, is live! We're starting with The OC, so if you need to relive your early 2000s teen drama obsession we got you covered.
Definitely go see Knives Out and Little Women.
Who else was excited to watch Eminem finally perform at the Oscar's this year?
We kind of failed at #janowrimo but we've still got big writing goals.
Survivor is 20 years old???
Jagged Little Pill remains an excellent album and we are proud Canadians.
We're super pumped for all our author and publisher collaborations this year!
Books:
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano (the book club book, go read it now!)
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Lynn Crosbie
Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie
37 min
February 04, 2020 036 - Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
Gen and Jette got an advanced reading copy of "Disfigured" by Amanda Leduc - Thanks to James at Coach House Books for our ongoing collabs! This book breaks down fairy tales and how disability has been etched into the collective unconscious as a bad thing that you have to overcome.
Show Notes:
Who know all the Disney movies came from such creepy scary "Fairy Tales"
Hans My Hedgehog sounds like the craziest story - can you picture a half-man, half hedgehog?
Changing Faces used #Iamnotyourvillain to transform the British film industry and now the BFI won't fund projects were the villains have facial disfigurements.
Can we talk about Marvel and how Hawkeye was actually deaf and the Matt Fraction series had illustrated ASL?
Allison Janney is the actress that Jette couldn't remember
Jamie Brewer is the actress from the AHS series
Books/Stories/Movies:
Paper Houses - Dominique Fortier
The Centaur's wife - Amanda Leduc (coming 2021)
The Miracles of the Ordinary Men - Amanda Leduc
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Sleeping Beauty
Rapunzel
Cinderella
The Maiden Without Hands
The Magicians
The Lion King

41 min
January 20, 2020 035 - Memoirs - Fact or Fiction?
Gen and Jette talk about memoirs, themes that tend to run through most, and floating into that grey area of creative non-fiction versus cold hard facts.
Show Notes:
How truthful are memoirs and what is the difference between a memoir and an autobiography? Please tell us - we're not sure.
So don't piss off Oprah or you'll live through the scandal that was A Million Little Pieces by James Grey.
It looks like Kirsten Dunst and Dakota Fanning aren't actually making The Bell Jar.
Was Running with Scissors Ryan Murphy's first film??
Jette's intro to memoirs was film school and a lot of pop culture-drug related stories.
Does anyone else tell time by what Starbucks they worked at?
What is the difference between an author and a writer and is someone who wrote a memoir either?
So many memoirs have been adapted to film - any favourites?
Elizabeth Wurtzel passed away on Jan 7. 2020 of breast cancer.
Books:
Educated - Tara Westover
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
Everything is Horrible and Wonderful - Stephanie Wittels-Wach
To Shake the Sleeping Self - Jedidiah Jenkins
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Darling Days - Io Tillett Wright
On Writing - Stephen King
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje
The Bell Jar - Sylvie Plath
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
The Diaries of Anne Frank
Cherry - Nico Walker
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Hollywood Gives You Cancer - Tom Green
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
Party Monster (originally released as Disco Bloodbath) - James St. James
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Drugs are Nice - Lisa Crystal Carver
Can I Say - Travis Barker
The Widow Basquiat - Jennifer Clements
Gray - Pete Wentz
What is the What - Dave Eggers
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41 min
January 06, 2020 034 - The Institute by Stephen King
Gen and Jette talk about The Institute by Stephen King, sent to them by Simon and Schuster Canada.
Show Notes:

You can hear more about Stephen King In our favourite author episode.
We wouldn't find SK's cumulative word count but the best estimate is somewhere in the tens of millions.
Apparently "night knocker" rose in Google trends when this came out because everyone was trying to figure out what it was.
Yes - Jette goes on another Umbrella Academy tangent. File that under her side of the drinking game (Gen mentions HP/Jette mentions UA).
Get our new bookclub book - Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano!
Stephen King Books mentioned:
On Writing
Carrie
The Shining
The Outsider
IT
Dreamcatcher
The Body (Stand by Me)
Under The Dome
42 min
December 23, 2019 033 - 2019 Holiday Wrap Up
Gen and Jette review 2019 their Goodreads goals, and their holiday plans.
Show Notes:
Happy Holidays!
We're launching a new podcast in 2020 - Teenage Daydream
Join us for #janowrimo - let's write 25,000 words!
Please add The Skulls (2000) to your holiday watch list
Books:
The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way and Gábriel Ba
Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
The Institute - Stephen King
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
Paper House - Dominique Fortier
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Our Homesick Songs - Emma Hooper
Other Words for Smoke - Sarah Maria Griffin
The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
Call Down the Hawk - Maggie Stiefvater
IV - Chuck Klosterman
To Shake the Sleeping Self - Jedidiah Jenkins
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19 min
December 09, 2019 032 - Harry Potter - Years 1 through 3
*Disclaimer: There is a lot of love for JKR in this episode with regards to plotting and character development. We recorded this before JKR made her anti-trans stance public. We in no way support JKR or her opinions and we stand with the trans community.* Gen and Jette talk about Harry Potter. FINALLY!
For the sake of not being here for 500 years, they cover books 1-3 and still only scratch the surface. They talk about JKR's impeccable plotting, details that make it into the later books, and some of Gen's favourite moments.
So climb aboard the Hogwarts Express and join them for Harry's first three years at Hogwarts.
Show Notes:
All of the love for Alan Rickman
The first movie came out in 2001
Alfonso Cuarón's HP movie was a game changer
If you're a serious Potter-head - listen to Binge Mode Harry Potter (scroll back past Star Wars and Game of Thrones ;) )
Gen is already thinking of all of the things that she didn't talk about.
Books:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 1997
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1999
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58 min
November 26, 2019 031 - Nanowrimo 2019
Gen and Jette talk about the novel writing event, Nanowrimo

Show Notes:

Nanowrimo is National Novel Writing Month
The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days or 1667 words a day
Neither us of are accomplishing this this year
This is the 20th year of #Nanowrimo
Conclusion - writing is hard
Anvil Press has a 3 day novel writing event - that seems a bit much
Join us in January for #jannowrimo where we are going to aim for 25,000 words!

Books:
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Cinder - Marissa Meyer
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Paper Houses - Dominique Fortier
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31 min
November 12, 2019 030 - Cherry by Nico Walker
Gen and Jette talk about the semi-autobiographical novel Cherry by current inmate, Nico Walker.
Show Notes:
You know we love The Ringer and Jette heard about this book on The Watch podcast thanks to Chris Ryan.
#keepingitreal aka The Podcat makes an appears.
Jette is sick and sounds weird, the table keeps creaking, and so many other oddities
This novel is being adapted for the screen by the Russo Brothers and will star Tom Holland.
Top Gun is about the Navy. Maverick is a Naval Aviator.
Read along with our new bookclub book - The Institute by Stephen King

Books:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
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32 min
October 28, 2019 029 - Haunted by Horror
Gen and Jette get spooky and try to breakdown the horror genre.
Show Notes:
You definitely need to Google Dean Koontz – all of the dog pictures are amazing.
The Goosebumps series is #2 behind Harry Potter for most sold series – what?
Also – maybe Jette is a little too de-sensitized and Saving Private Ryan should have shook her a bit more.
Like how Gen is still scared of bathrooms with the lights out because of Bloody Mary.
Send us your halloween kisses! You know – those weird molasses taffy candies – we love them!
Movies/TV:
AHS Coven
Scream
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Blair Witch Project
Saw
Books/Authors:
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Gillian Flynn
Annihilation
Jane Eyre
RL Stine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
HP Lovecraft
Kelley Armstong
Anne Rice
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Walking Dead
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Wilder Girls
The Haunting of Hill House
Clive Barker – Hellraiser
Charlaine Harris – True Blood
The Witches – Roald Dahl
The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike
Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram @anotherbookpodcast, Twitter @anotherbookpod, and Facebook or email us at [email protected] We’d love to hear from you! And check out our Patreon and sign up for our newsletter as well!
34 min

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