Episode 138 - Adaptations

This episode we’re talking about Adaptations! We discuss (the fictional) Junji Ito's Anne of Green Gables, The Muppets presents Dune the Musical, bad wigs in adaptations, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Appleberry Media We Mentioned Peter and the Wolf (Wikipedia) Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wikipedia) Spider-Man in film (Wikipedia) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wikipedia) Spider-Ham Spider-Verse (Wikipedia) Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series) (Wikipedia) Spider-Man (Japanese TV series) (Wikipedia) Spiders-Man (Wikipedia) The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien  The Lord of the Rings (film series) (Wikipedia) Lord of the Rings - trailer (YouTube) Harry Potter (film series) (Wikipedia) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - trailer (YouTube) Batman in film (Wikipedia) Spider-Men (Wikipedia) Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) (Wikipedia) Highlander (franchise) (Wikipedia) Frankenstein by Junji Ito Dune by Frank Herbert Dune (1984) - trailer (YouTube) Dune (2021) - trailer (YouTube) Muppet Treasure Island - trailer (YouTube) Muppet Christmas Carol - trailer (YouTube) The Music Man (Wikipedia) The Music Man - trailer (YouTube) The Princess Bride by William Goldman The Princess Bride - trailer (YouTube) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Wikipedia) Cassandra Cain (Wikipedia) Little Shop of Horrors - (Wikipedia) Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena Parasite Eve - video game (Wikipedia) The Witcher (Wikipedia) The Witcher (TV series) (Wikipedia) The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski The Lego Movie (Wikipedia) The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman  Golden Compass - trailer (YouTube) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis  Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - trailer (YouTube) BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei The Dark Tower (2017 film) (Wikipedia) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - trailer (YouTube) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - trailer (YouTube) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll  Alice in Wonderland - trailer (YouTube) You (TV series) (Wikipedia) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Twilight - trailer (YouTube) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia) Lovely War by Julie Berry The Illusionist  - trailer (YouTube) The Prestige - trailer (YouTube) Seven (1995 film) (Wikipedia) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Wikipedia) West Side Story (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Desert Bus Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows) The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End (BoardGameGeek) There are three different Pirates of the Caribbean version of the Game of Life Resource Description and Access (Wikipedia) Storm - X-Men character (Wikipedia) Mystique - X-Men character (Wikipedia) Five laws of library science (Wikipedia) “Every book its reader.” 18 Metafiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here. Insurrecto by Gina Apostol Trust Exercise by Susan Choi Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima by Hideo Furukawa Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour Hell of a Book by Jason Mott Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri The Friend by Sigrid Nunez The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Thrillers! Then on Tuesday, December 21st it’s our Best Books we Read in 2021 episode!