Not Your Mother's Library

Rachel takes a deep dive into comic maxiseries Watchmen. Also included are read-alikes and view-alikes.

Here's everything we talked about in the episode:

Comics mentioned:

"Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. "Watchmen: Motion Comic" narrated by Tom Stechschulte. The "Before Watchmen" series by various artists and "Doomsday Clock" by Geoff Johns. "Swamp Thing," "Batman: The Killing Joke," "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," "V for Vendetta," and "From Hell" by Alan Moore. "Hellblazer" by Jamie Delano, "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman," "Sin City" by Frank Miller, and "Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis.

TV shows and movies mentioned:

Watchmen (2009), Director Zack Snyder

Watchmen, HBO

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Leah shares her all-time favorite movies and tells us about the books some of them are based upon.

Here's everything we talked about in the episode:

Movies mentioned:

Jurassic Park (1993), Director Steven Spielberg

Congo (1995), Director Frank Marshall

The 13th Warrior (1999), Director John McTiernan

Clue (1985), Director Jonathan Lynn

Romancing the Stone (1984), Director Robert Zemeckis

Red (2010), Director Robert Schwentke

The Fifth Element (1997), Director Luc Besson

Books and authors mentioned:

"Jurassic Park," "Congo," and "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton. Spy Thriller writers Vince Flynn, Daniel Silva, Tom Clancy, David Baldacci, and Brad Thor.

If you want to know more about Koko, the gorilla who learned sign language, visit: https://www.koko.org

Original review by Felix Vasquez, Jr.: http://cinema-crazed.com/blog/2014/09/22/congo-1995

YouTube video about the Mangalores: https://youtu.be/ReLDEezGPI4

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Rachel talks about Uncharted, a video game series available on PlayStation. Also included are play-alikes, movies, and books with a similar theme.

Here's everything we talked about in the episode:

The Uncharted video game franchise, including:

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

The Tomb Raider video game reboot franchise, including:

Tomb Raider

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

The Syberia video game franchise, including:

Syberia

Syberia II

Syberia 3

The "Indiana Jones," "The Mummy," and the "National Treasure" film franchises as well as fiction by author Clive Cussler.

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Rachel and Leah celebrate National Poetry Month by reading some of their favorite poems (to the best of their ability).

Check out what we talked about:

"The Ruined Garden" by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Robert Lowell.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.

"Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney.

Lyrics from Bob Dylan's "Shelter from the Storm," "Blowin' in the Wind," and "The Times They Are a-Changin'."

"The Drunken Boat" by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Wallace Fowlie.

"Note to Self" by Donna Marie Merritt.

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" by Emily Dickinson.

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Leah discusses one of her favorite places in the world, and one of her favorite books in the world. Also included are read-alikes, TV shows, and movies with a similar theme.

Here's everything we talked about in the episode:

Books mentioned:

"A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed. "Zero Days" by Barbara Egbert. "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann. "Grandma Gatewood's Walk" by Ben Montgomery. "Roughing It" by Mark Twain. "Travels in Alaska" by John Muir. "Dirty Shirt: a Boundary Waters Memoir" by Jim Landwehr.

TV shows and movies mentioned:

A Walk in the Woods (2015), Director Ken Kwapis

Naked and Afraid, Discovery

Man vs. Wild, Discovery

Running Wild with Bear Grylls, NBC / Nat Geo

The Island, NBC / Channel 4

127 Hours (2010), Director Danny Boyle

Swiss Army Man (2016), Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

The Indiana Jones franchise, Director Steven Spielberg

- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Wild (2014), Director Jean-Marc Vallée

Into the Wild (2007), Director Sean Penn

The Lost City of Z (2016), Director James Gray

'Loon' soundclip provided via https://freesound.org and uploaded by user nicStage. It was recorded here in Wisconsin on Mercer Lake. The clip is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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Rachel introduces one of her favorite TV shows, Community. Also included are view-alikes.

Here's everything we talked about in the episode:

TV shows mentioned:

Community, ABC / Yahoo! Screen

Rick and Morty, Adult Swim

The Office, NBC

Parks and Recreation, NBC

Arrested Development, Fox / Netflix

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Leah discusses one of her favorite books, "The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson. Also included are read-alikes, TV shows, and movies with a similar theme.

Here's everything we talked about in the episode:

Books mentioned:

"The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson. "The Emperor of All Maladies" and "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. "Rabid" by Bill Wasik. "Pale Rider" by Laura Spinney. "Dr. Mütter's Marvels" by Cristin O'keefe Aptowicz. "Hospital Sketches" by Louisa May Alcott.

TV shows and movies mentioned:

Botched, E! Entertainment

Nip/Tuck, FX

Scrubs, NBC / ABC

Grey’s Anatomy, ABC

The Good Doctor, ABC

Chicago Med, NBC

Carriers (2009), Director David Pastor

Contagion (2011), Director Steven Sonderbergh

12 Monkeys (1995), Director Terry Gilliam

Pandemic (2016), Director John Suits

Outbreak (1995), Director Wolfgang Petersen

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Rachel and new co-host Leah welcome a special guest to recommend all of their favorite podcasts.

Check out what we talked about:

"This American Life" from Chicago Public Media; "Heavyweight" from Gimlet; "99% Invisible" by Roman Mars; "Radiolab," "Dolly Parton's America," "Nancy," and "Sooo Many White Guys" from WNYC; and "How I Built This" from NPR. Also: "WTF with Marc Maron," "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend," "Bad with Money with Gaby Dunn," and "Queery with Cameron Esposito."

"King Falls AM" from The Make Believe Picture Company; "Dreamboy," "Within the Wires," "It Makes a Sound," and "Adventures in New America" from Night Vale Presents; "The Big Loop" from QRX; and "Homecoming" from Gimlet.

The "Jenna & Julian Podcast" by Jenna Marbles and Julien Solomita, as well as "Morbid: A True Crime Podcast" by Ash and Alaina.

Find all of these podcasts online or listen to them using your favorite podcast app!

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Rachel introduces a new special guest to discuss musical movies and television shows as well as OCPL’s monthly Musical Sing-along Nights program.

Check out what we talked about:

“Mamma Mia!” and the supergroup ABBA.

“Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Three Smart Girls,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Silk Stockings,” and “Mulan.”

“Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Across the Universe” and the band The Beatles, “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog,” “Matilda the Musical,” the NBC show “Galavant,” and the Fox show “Bob’s Burgers.”

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Rachel hosts the first episode of 2020 with returning guest Jill Lininger to talk about books that they will never, ever read.

Check out what we talked about:

"Girl, Wash Your Face" by Rachel Hollis

"The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin

The "Animorphs" series by K. A. Applegate

The "Warriors" series by Erin Hunter

"The Host" and the "Twilight" series by Stephanie Meyer

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

"And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

"The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

"The Lord of the Rings" series by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James

"It" by Stephen King

Authors Janet Evanovich, Clive Cussler, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Shakespeare.

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