Read, Watch, or DNF

Read, Watch, or DNF

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Read, Watch, or DNF episodes

  • Practical Magic

    In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we take a broomstick ride to Long Island to unravel the not-so-practical, not-so-magical misfortunes of a family plagued by 200+ years of generational trauma. Join us as we dive into Alice Hoffman's "Practical Magic" and its equally enchanting 1998 screen adaptation. Let's separate fact from fiction, shall we? ✨🧙‍♀️

    1 hr 25 min
  • Annihilation

    In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we embark on an extraterrestrial adventure to a lighthouse through a plasma wall with a squad of trigger-happy ladies. Why? Because we bumped uglies with our husband's body snatcher! Join us as we delve into Jeff VanderMeer's eco-horror masterpiece, "Annihilation," and its equally mind-bending 2018 film adaptation.

    1 hr 13 min
  • The Haunting of Hill House
    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we kick-off spooky month by booking a bed and breakfast stay in a classic story with a classic trope in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and the 2018 Netflix adaptation of the same name.And we ask the question, did the decision to adapt the story into a family dynamic drive the success of this series, or do people just love haunted houses?Also, can we take a moment to just respect the savagery of Shirley Jackson to write queer characters into her work in the 1950s!
    1 hr 3 min
  • The Princess Bride
    WE ARE BACK!!!On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take on a classic, but not the archaic kind, the 1973 kind and we travel the country of Florin in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure and the movie simply titled The Princess Bride.
    1 hr 21 min
  • Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Volume
    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time with My Chemical Romance and then back agaIn to save the world (or maybe just that city, we don’t actually know) from an apocalypse that was cause by a glass eye?? In Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba’s Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Volume and the 2019 Netflix original adaption,
    52 min
  • My Best Friend's Exorcism

    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time to 1988 and dance through its greatest hits whilst trying to remove a mean girl demon from our bestie in Grady Hendrix’s horror novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism and its Amazon Prime Video film adaptation with the same name.

    And we ask the question, are we as ride or die as Abby & Gretchen

    Also, What the actual fuck is slave day??? And why was it a thing in 1988?

    1 hr 8 min
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we head over to the Hudson Valley in search of a headless horseman among generational myths and modern greed in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its 1999 screen adaptation Sleepy Hollow.

    And we ask the question, what actually makes a good adaptation?

    Also, what happened to Christina Ricci’s eyebrows?

    1 hr 27 min
  • School for Good and Evil

    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we close out our month of Netflix original adaptations with young reader’s take on the origin story of classic fairytales in Soman Chainani’s book 1 of his School for Good and Evil series. And we ask the question; when adaptations alter the relationship between major characters, does it matter which format it’s adapted to; ig. Movie vs series?

    Also,.”You can’t marry a man you just met”

    1 hr 7 min
  • Passing

    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take a stroll through Harlem in a monotone, most likely opium fueled, haze in Nella Larsen's Passing and the 2021 Netflix original adaptation of the same name. And we ask the question, is it possible for an adaptation to be too much like the book?

    Also, the black & white…we see what you did there.

    1 hr 14 min
  • To All the Boys I've Loved Before

    On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we seriously ponder life choices as we discuss Jenny Han’s to all the boys I’ve loved before and the 2018 Netflix original adaptation of the same name. We ask the question ? Why, just why?

    Also, I’m almost certain this book gave me ptsd.

    55 min

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Greetings, greetings, world! Welcome to the 'Read, Watch, or DNF' podcast, your ultimate destination for all things books, booze, and unforgettable adaptations. We're your hosts, the witty Mel B.…