Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr

Brenna and Joe head to Sweden to discuss Amanda Kernell's 2016 film, Sami Blood. Thanks to listener Alex for recommending this one!

This film is beautiful, features great performances, and is also very tough to watch as an Indigenous girl faces racist treatment and ultimately rejects her culture.

Plus: needing additional context for the Sami people, comparisons to Canada's residential schools, and complaints about the framing device!

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> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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Our eyes are watering (from all the dust in the air, of course) as we give thanks to listeners Aimee and Tea, Books and Chocolate for their recent emails, which highlight an adaptations bulletin board and a book series recommendation for Brenna's son, Groot.

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> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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Raise your boombox and get your yearbook signed because we're talking Cameron Crowe's feature directorial debut, Say Anything (1989). Along for the ride is super fan Mike Snoonian of The Pod & The Pendulum and Psychoanalysis.

This is a very sweet romance and we will fight anyone who says otherwise (looking at you, contemporary revisionist takes)

Plus: Clash t-shirts, John Cusack's iconic Lloyd, bad adults, why Ione Skye never quite broke out, and more!

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia (2021)

> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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On this week's mailbag, Joe makes a correction about listener Miriam, who also provides insight into what books are translated in the Netherlands.

Plus: we revisit an email from Tea, Books & Chocolate to discuss teaching diverse texts, relatability and Joe ponders where that intersects with likeability.

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia (2021)

> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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It's disaffected middle class white boy problems as Brenna and Joe tackle Walter Kirn's 1999 novel Thumbsucker and Mike Mills' directorial debut from 2005.

While the book took some time to get into, we're both big fans of the third part which explores converting to Mormonism. The film, however, completely omits that section, favouring Garden State musical montages that feel so 2000s.

Plus: child abuse, Holden Caulfield comparisons, handy js, the film's stuntcasting, and arguably one of the worst father characters we've ever encountered!

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia (2021)

> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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Brenna and Joe are making it up to listener Jane, who we neglected to mention had previously written in about translated texts.

We're continuing the conversation about translation, plus expanding the discussion to include popular/mass market texts and accessibility.

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia (2021)

> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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It's time for another book club and we have three listeners (Tea, Books, and Chocolate, Victoria, and Addie) who contributed their thoughts on Eric Gansworth's 2020 memoir in verse, Apple: Skin to the Core.

We discuss why this is a memoir and not a collection of poetry, how Gansworth hooks readers and uses pop culture subversions, its depiction of queerness, and the materiality of the physical tome.

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia (2021)

> May 16: Ready When You Are (aka The Boy from the Mish) by Gary Lonesborough (2022)

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On this week's mailbag, Joe and Brenna go deep on a line in listener Laura's email pushing back on the challenges of reading a translated text.

After apologizing for the faux pas, we debate the accessibility of translated texts, how it informs cultural structures and what story that tells.

Plus: a call to arms for foreign listeners particularly

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia (2021)

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We're headed to Berlin thanks to listener Alma's suggestion to check out famed German author Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives (1929), as well as its 1964 Disney adaptation by Peter Tewksbury.

This new-to-us middle grade book is a *massive* bestseller and survived eradication from the Nazis, so we feel pretty silly not having it on our radar. The shot on location film, however, is both too childish and too scary.

Plus: why can no one pronounce Emil's name and what was Walt Disney's secret plans for Roger Mobley (Gustav)?

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia (2021)

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This week we're responding to listener Kaetlyn's email about Roald Dahl's books being edited, why this isn't censorship, and how the culture war outrage is selective to certain groups.

Plus: a bonus conversation about whether creatives should enter review spaces to challenge takes they disagree with (short answer: no!)

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> April 13: We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia (2020)

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