Season Four Recap

[00:00:00] Speaker A: We want to hear what you think of this season's books. Comment on our socials or email us at Connect C O n n E c [email protected] or please leave us a voicemail at 416-900-8603. We would love to hear from you. [00:00:22] Speaker B: Parental guidance is recommended because this episode has mature topics and strong language. Here are some moments you can look forward to during this episode of Book Interrupted. [00:00:33] Speaker C: And then she invited anybody who wants to come and watch it with me. I'm gonna watch it again. You know, like, she loved it. [00:00:38] Speaker A: Apparently it's quite gruesome. And I have a friend who's obsessed with horror movies and has watched thousands of them, and she says this is the best movie she's ever watched for a horror movie in her entire life. [00:00:50] Speaker B: They didn't need to change it. They didn't need to change anything about it. They changed storylines. They didn't need to change anything. It was pretty perfection, that book. [00:00:58] Speaker C: Tamish's Quarterfellow, isn't it? [00:01:00] Speaker B: That's amazing because that's what. When we did the season, we said that would be the best. [00:01:05] Speaker C: It was so long. [00:01:06] Speaker A: It was so long. [00:01:07] Speaker C: It took us days to finish that. Days. [00:01:09] Speaker A: It was like days. [00:01:11] Speaker C: I'm not joking. We had to be like, well, we got to go to bed. [00:01:14] Speaker B: We don't have to talk about pilot. But I dug the thing. [00:01:16] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:01:17] Speaker C: I think we have to in every season recap. [00:01:20] Speaker A: I mean, I can tell you things I didn't like more than, I mean, out of the books. [00:01:26] Speaker C: And Jewel Dahl's books are not that kind of like, clean, happy childhood kids book. [00:01:32] Speaker A: You're plugging the library again. [00:01:34] Speaker C: Support your local library. Anyway, let's see. Mind, body, and soul. Information is the goal. Trying to learn something new without it. Mind, body, and sound. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Information is the cloud. [00:01:55] Speaker D: Trying to learn something new without being disrupted. Mind, body, and soul inspiration is the time. And we're gonna talk it out on Book Interrupted. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Welcome to Book Interrupted, a book club for busy people to connect and one that celebrates life's interruptions. Let's listen in to this episode's group discussion. Welcome to our season four recap and our season four. The theme for season four was books with movies and or TV series. [00:02:35] Speaker C: Okay, I have a list of the books, movies that we read, watched if you want me to see them in order. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Yes, please. Go for it. [00:02:43] Speaker C: So first one was Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Leah's book pick. And then we had Ashley's book pick. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. Then we had Kim's book pick, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, followed by Sarah's book A Long Way Home by Saru Riley. [00:03:05] Speaker B: Yes, Riley. [00:03:06] Speaker C: And the movie was called Lion. Right? [00:03:09] Speaker B: Lion. Yep. [00:03:11] Speaker C: My book pick was the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Kara's book pick the BFG by Roald Dahl and Virginia's book pick Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Lindsay's book pick the Hating Game by Sally Thorne. We did so many books this season, it's ridiculous how many we did. [00:03:31] Speaker A: And like different genres. Looking at them now, all of them, like so many different genres from like non fiction to fiction to children's books to self help to memoir dystopia to romance. [00:03:46] Speaker C: Romance. [00:03:47] Speaker A: Steamy romance, which we realize is not so steamy. [00:03:51] Speaker C: But I was talking to a friend. She likes steamy romance novels. That's like her escape. She likes that. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:57] Speaker C: I was like, you could be on our podcast as a guest if you want. She was like, maybe. I was like, it'd be great because she reads this genre as her escape. She'd probably pick the best one or the one most women focused or whatever. [00:04:09] Speaker A: Anyway, yeah, great. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Tell her she can put in a fan request in to be a fan book. We have a fan book for next year. Fans can go to our website in the new year and we will have the dates for the next fan book. And if you want to put a proposal in for any book that's women centered, you could go to the book interrupted website at www.bookinterrupted.com fans and put in your suggestion. And you just have to be available on the dates we record. Then you'll be part of our fan book choice and we'll give you your own promo picture just like the other fans and you can come back forever just like two of our fans we have. We've had four fans so far and two of them constantly come back to read other books. And you could do that too if you wanted to. [00:04:54] Speaker A: I love that. [00:04:54] Speaker C: And one of the authors comes back from time to time. I wonder how she's doing. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Doing. I know. I was thinking about so last year, but we read so many books last year. I was thinking about reaching out to Kirsten and asking her if she wanted to do a fan pick. I thought about it in the summer, but I was just like, ah, I don't know if I could read another book. I actually need the summer for a break. [00:05:13] Speaker C: Yeah. And she's busy. Like she's such a busy lady doing all sorts of stuff. [00:05:17] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. She's always on social media. [00:05:19] Speaker A: Well, she'd probably want to come back, so you should invite her. My author of my book next year is. Is Canadian, so I'm going to reach out to her. And it does say in the. In the book that if you want to her to join your book club or whatever to reach out. So I'm going to do that. So maybe we'll have another. [00:05:34] Speaker B: That'll be so great. Love that. [00:05:38] Speaker C: If you want to go on a podcast, maybe you should just write a book. And in the book say, invite me to your podcast and then I can meet all these people. Wonderful. Ever write a book? I always wanted to, you know, but I get on these projects and then I get really excited at the beginning, but I'm really bad at finishing things because I get excited by the next project before it comes up. [00:05:56] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:05:57] Speaker A: Sarah, do you want to talk about how there's only the three of us here today? [00:06:00] Speaker B: Yes. So the reason we only have three people here today is because unfortunately, Kara had a staff meeting she couldn't get out of. Ashley was called into work last minute, literally a half an hour before he came on her work, called her in. Kim had a really rough weekend, and she was the first one being like, I'm sorry, guys, I'm having. And she always comes, so I'm like, of course. Yeah, no problem. And then Leah has woke up with a migraine. She's like, I'm so sor. I have a bad migraine. I can't make it. Yeah. I was like, oh, well, that's fine. [00:06:30] Speaker C: That's life. [00:06:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Ashley. Ashley sent a message. If anybody wants to mention how awesome the Ballard songbirds and snakes is, that's fine with me. That's fine by me. Yeah. So she's gonna do a little personal journal. She said just to say what her favorites are, but it's very clear. It's a Hunger Games book. Yeah. And movies. [00:06:49] Speaker C: She bought it and watched it over and over. And then she invited anybody who wants to come and watch it with me. I'm gonna watch it again. You know, like, she loved it. I finally watched that movie, by the way. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Oh. And what do you think? [00:07:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I got it from the library. I'm always plugging the library. I'm like, go to your library. They will get funding if it's used and if nobody uses it, guess what? One day we won't have libraries. That's the way of the world. These Days they're like, is this costing us money? Let's just cut it off. But people love their library anyway. Go to your library if you have one, guys. Yes, I got it from the library. Yeah. And it was fun. [00:07:21] Speaker B: I thought it was good compared to the book. [00:07:23] Speaker C: I thought it was kind of like in line with the other Hunger Games movies where, like, the book obviously contains a lot because you kind of know what's happening in the people's heads and their motivations. And I think that's hard to come across to bring out in a movie without having an actual voice as an inner monologue thing, which, you know, some movies have. But. Yeah, I thought the music, though. The music was great. I think they nailed it. They could have really messed up on the music, but the music actually added to it, so that's nice. [00:07:53] Speaker B: I don't even remember, but Ashley told us how she actually sang all the songs. Like it wasn't just dubbed in. She sang it while they were like. [00:08:01] Speaker C: It seemed like she was. But I guess if people are really good at lip syncing, you wouldn't know either way. But it did seem. [00:08:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:08:06] Speaker A: I think there's a new Hunger Games. Isn't there? Coming out a new book? [00:08:09] Speaker C: Yes. [00:08:10] Speaker B: Is there? [00:08:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I keep getting an ad for it. [00:08:13] Speaker C: It's Hamish's Quarter Quell, isn't it? [00:08:16] Speaker B: That's amazing, because that's what. When we did the season, we said that would be the best. The best. [00:08:21] Speaker C: Let me double check. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Yeah, it's called Sunrise on the Reaping. It's coming out. It's a pre order released on March 18, 2025. It says. Yeah, Haymitch is his. His story says on the 50th annual Hunger Games. Anyways, it's him. [00:08:42] Speaker C: I wonder who's going to play him in the movie, because they're totally going to do a movie. And it can't be Woody Harrelson because he. He won't look like a young Woody Harrelson. He'll look like an old one. [00:08:50] Speaker A: Because he is an old. Because he is. [00:08:51] Speaker C: He is an old Woody. [00:08:54] Speaker B: He is old. [00:08:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:56] Speaker A: That's awesome. Okay, so what do you want us to do? [00:08:59] Speaker B: I think we should go around and say what our favorite book was this season, and then separate from the movie, just what your favorite book was. And then we'll go into what your favorite movie was, and then we'll talk about what book you thought translated to movie and or TV series best. So let's start with favorite book. [00:09:18] Speaker A: I'm looking at the list going, not Mine I think like for me it. [00:09:23] Speaker C: Was between Lessons in Chemistry and the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Both fantastic books for different reasons, but both really well written as well. And because one of the things I like to read for relaxation and stuff is like cellular biology and like DNA stuff, genetics and all that. So that was very interesting. And having the history there, that was a really good one. And then Lessons in Chemistry was great because the female character was Elizabeth Zot was so strong and she's like, she was such a perfect heroine. You're like rooting for her. It's like she was making the rest of women look better by not backing down ever from who she was unapologetically yourself. And it was really well written. I enjoyed both. [00:10:08] Speaker A: I bought the book Lessons in Chemistry but I haven't read it yet and I wasn't there for the taping. But is it a non fiction or fiction? [00:10:14] Speaker C: Fiction. [00:10:15] Speaker A: It's fiction. [00:10:15] Speaker B: Fiction. [00:10:16] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:10:16] Speaker A: I was thinking it was non fiction for some reason. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'll go next if you want. It's my favorite book too. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Oh good. Well, I have it sitting on my desk so I will read it. At some point I said that the. [00:10:27] Speaker B: Last recap that I already knew was going to be because I had already read it. I predicted that that would be my favorite because it's five star book. Four for me. I love that book. I didn't mind reading it again. And then the other two I really enjoyed was the ballad Song Birds and Snakes and then the Mortal Life of Henry Alex. Those are my top ones. But I still lessons like those were probably like four star ones. The other two maybe, maybe Henry Alex, I gave a five, I can't remember. But Lessons in Chemistry, Elizabeth thought character and there's so much to the book and it was so well written. Oh, and that, remember that story that we found out about the woman who wrote it, Bonnie Garmus? Right. We watched something that she was telling a story about how she was in a staff meeting or something. Wasn't that someone said she had done. [00:11:12] Speaker C: A presentation, what direction she thinks they should take and after she was done, nobody said anything. And then somebody maybe in charge somebody else, some man says we're not going to do that, but this is what I think we should do. And he named the points that she had like on the screen right in front and everyone's like that's a wonderful idea to him, not to her. And she was supposed to go back and do some work assignment but instead she went back and started writing lessons in chemistry and it's so relatable because, like, anybody who works in a big company like that, that is a woman. It's happened where you say an idea, and then someone's like, no, we're not doing that. And then they say your exact words. I once had a boss who did that to me, but he made me explain something to him, and I was writing notes on his whiteboard, and the next day he calls me in to explain that to me. Like, I didn't know what I was talking about, but it was my writing. It was even in my writing. And he was, like, being super condescending. And it's just so funny how common it is. Right. So it makes Bonnie Garmis also kind of a hero to women, being like, thank you for writing it down. Because when you're being gaslit, you want that. Like, somebody tell you, no, no, no, you're not crazy. That actually happens a lot. It happens to other people, not just you. So if you're wondering why it's happening, it's just our culture, it's, like, accepted because the rest of the people in the room in this story that she was telling, nobody said anything. Nobody said, wait a minute. But that's her idea right up on the screen right there. Sorry. [00:12:48] Speaker B: Horrible. [00:12:49] Speaker C: I ran. [00:12:49] Speaker B: So if you haven't read, like, Lindsay read it. [00:12:53] Speaker A: I bought it. I was gonna read it, but I couldn't come to the taping. And then I didn't read it, and it's sitting there, so I will. [00:12:59] Speaker C: We read nine books this season. It's a lot. I've got another book club. I felt like I was like. I got all these other books that are not in either book clubs that I want to read. Oh, my gosh. I gotta give her all these books. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Well, and some of them are more deep or big or, you know, not all were easy books, so. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah, but you should read it. And anyone else is listening, definitely read it. Like, I couldn't put it down even the second reading, even though I knew what was going to happen. It's such an exceptional book. [00:13:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:27] Speaker B: And, Lindsay, what was your favorite? [00:13:29] Speaker A: Well, I didn't read all it. Well, actually, most. I read most of them, actually. And I. I've already read Eat, Pray, Love before, so that was. And then I'm looking at the list. I just didn't read Lessons in Chemistry. And I'm sure I read BFG when I was younger, but I can't. I can't remember. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was my. My favorite. I love learning while I'm reading too, and I felt like I learned some things and it was a such a powerful story and it surprised me and it was well written and I just got the most out of it. I mean, I can tell you things I didn't like more than, I mean, out of the book. [00:14:05] Speaker B: Let's go down. [00:14:06] Speaker A: I did like the Hunger Games one, the Ballad of the Somber Stakes. I like that series. So that was. I mean, my book was not my favorite, even though I'd read it already, that I found that the most interesting. I think sometimes books just, like relationships or everything come to you in certain times in your life and you're like, oh, you're in a great relationship with someone, but then if you'd met them another time, you would have never gotten along. And I think that with books it's the same thing. Like, sometimes you pick up a book and you're like, this is the time I need this book. And like Sarah was saying, this is the best book or whatever. But had she maybe read it 10 years ago or read it 10 years from now, maybe you'd be like, oh, that was okay, right? [00:14:45] Speaker B: That's how I felt about Eat, Pray, Love. I loved it the first time I read it. And then we read it for the book club and I was like, oh, yeah, I never. [00:14:52] Speaker A: I figured I shouldn't show up because I know that's Kim's favorite book, I think, or what used to be. And I was like, I don't want to. I'm not showing up because I really dislike that book and the movie and the premise and the everything about it. So. But maybe if I'd read it again, I would have liked it. [00:15:08] Speaker C: Know. [00:15:08] Speaker A: Anyway, so I feel like the Hating Game was one of those books where I was like, well, you know, when I first read it, I was like, this is light and fluffy and that's what I needed and whatever. And when I read it again, I was like, oh, this is not so great. So I thought Killer's the Flower Moon. I. I liked the story. I just found it such a drag to read A Long Way Home. I mean, the writing wasn't the best either of that one, but it's a good story as well. So, yeah, I guess that's all the books. But I really liked the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. But some of the other ones I wasn't as into. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So for me, the Big Friendly Giant, I had read it before for my kids and it was fine. But because I was reading it again for my kids, I forgot how annoying and how Often he talks in his gibberish language. It was frustrating to read it out loud. Yeah. So I really did not enjoy that during this book cycle because I was reading it aloud to my kids and then. Yeah. My book, A Long Way Home. So for the movies. I like that movie. The book was. Yeah. Not well written and kind of long winded. So it wasn't my favorite. What else? Like you, The Hating Game wasn't my favorite. Eat, Pray, Love. I used to love that book. Didn't really enjoy it. It was different than I remembered. So it was like you said, not the right time. Yeah. Oh, and I already mentioned that I like the Hunger Game on. So this season was good. I think I was really good to do books turned into movies. [00:16:29] Speaker A: What was your favorite movies then? If we did favorite books? [00:16:33] Speaker B: My favorite movie, I guess my favorite movie was the Hunger Game 1 and then maybe A Long Way Home. I thought the Long Way Home movie was good. The kid was so cute in it. I really like that movie. But I think the Hunger Games, if I had to pick a movie that I enjoyed the most, probably that one, I mean, the Mortal Life of Henry Lacks is okay too. But it was just. It was in the book. Like, the book was so much. [00:16:57] Speaker C: There's a lot in the book, too. You wouldn't be able to put it into a movie, I think. [00:17:01] Speaker B: But I like the movie. [00:17:03] Speaker C: But I thought the movie was fine. Yeah. [00:17:05] Speaker B: But it wasn't my top movie. [00:17:06] Speaker C: I think the movie did a good job of it. [00:17:08] Speaker B: Yeah, me too. Lessons in Chemistry. That show I probably would have liked if I had never read the book. But reading the book made me hate that show, not hate it. But being like, this is not the book at all, you changed way too much. [00:17:21] Speaker C: It removed the essence of the book. It took the essence out. [00:17:25] Speaker B: They took out Elizabeth Dot's amazing character. They made her different. But if I had watched it without ever reading the book, I probably would have liked it. But knowing that they changed a whole bunch of things, then I didn't enjoy as much. But I think it was fine. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Would you have liked to have watched that show first and then read the book after? Or just better to just read the book? Maybe just read the book. [00:17:48] Speaker B: Just read the book. But if I had watched the show and then read the book, I would have been like, oh, this book is so amazing. And maybe I would have remembered Elizabeth Zot as a person in the book. [00:17:58] Speaker C: Instead of the weaker Zot that they have in the show. Yes. The less sure of herself Zot they have in the show. I don't know. I was watching a show with my husband and he didn't watch the whole series. He came down on some episodes to watch a little bit and he was like, oh, my God. He's like, this is bad. The episodes that he was watching, he's like, the writing on this episode is really bad. He's like, is this what the book was like? And I was like, no, it wasn't what the book was about at all. Like, the later episodes are just. They're too much. They're just not. [00:18:31] Speaker B: They didn't need to change it. They didn't need to change anything about it. They changed storylines. They didn't need to change anything. It was perfection, that book. [00:18:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:39] Speaker B: In my opinion, when they do that. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Right, you're going to be true. I understand you got to shorten it and whatever, but don't, like, change the essence. [00:18:47] Speaker C: I think it was more like, they're like, oh, man, this story makes men look bad. Let's switch that around. Instead. [00:18:52] Speaker B: The directors were women, but the writer was a man. Yeah. [00:18:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:58] Speaker B: Anyway, so it's fine. Yeah. I think Hunger Games and then A Long Way Home. That's how I'd go. What about you guys? [00:19:05] Speaker A: Mayor? [00:19:07] Speaker C: Well, I never got to see lion the Long Way Home one yet. I haven't been able to find it. [00:19:14] Speaker A: Well, that should be at your library. [00:19:16] Speaker B: I know. [00:19:18] Speaker C: I think I could probably request it from another library, because you can do that. You can get books or media from anywhere in our province through the library if it's at a different library. So I gotta try harder on that one. [00:19:28] Speaker A: You're plugging the library again. [00:19:30] Speaker C: Support your local library. Anyway, let's see the movies. [00:19:35] Speaker A: The movies. [00:19:36] Speaker C: Obviously, I did not like the Lessons in Chemistry TV show and the heating gave. I did not. It was just too corny. [00:19:44] Speaker A: That was worse than the book. [00:19:46] Speaker B: And. [00:19:46] Speaker C: But some people love that movie. And I think maybe it's a generational thing, because when I look up reviews for the movie, some people are like, I can't stop watching it. I watch it over and over. And you're like, oh, there's a certain audience and I'm not it. Maybe if we're talking about movies that were probably true to the book, the bfg, I think, did a good job of keeping up with that creepy roll doll feel. The first time we tried to watch the BFG years ago, my kids, who. They're not scared of many movies, they love the second Harry Potter with the Basilist and stuff, they're like, it's fine. Or Jurassic Park. I don't know. They've watched that. They'd watched that before, the bfg and they were like, we don't like this. The giant is really creepy. It took us a while to watch that movie. And Jewel Dahl's books are not that kind of like clean, happy childhood kids book there. Some could argue that they're not really children's books in some senses. You know what I mean? Like, they're very. They got a lot going on, some disturbing. Yeah, they're kind of dark. So I think the movie did a good job of being kind of dark, to be honest. I don't know if I would watch any of the movie again. But what did I like best? [00:20:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm. [00:20:51] Speaker A: I'm with you. I don't know that I liked any of the movies as much as the books. [00:20:57] Speaker B: Not as much as the books. No. No, no, no. [00:20:59] Speaker A: But even then I found the Ballad of Songbirds takes was a good movie on its own, but it didn't. There were so many things missing from the book which I didn't like. The Killers of the Flower Moon was the most painful movie. It was so long. It was so long. [00:21:15] Speaker C: It was so long. [00:21:16] Speaker A: It was so long. [00:21:17] Speaker C: It took us days to finish that. Days. [00:21:20] Speaker A: It was like days. [00:21:21] Speaker C: I'm not joking. We had to be like, well, we gotta go to bed. We don't have three. What if. Whatever it was three, three and a half hours to sit down and watch. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Longer than that. I think it was three and a half hours. [00:21:31] Speaker C: It seemed longer too. [00:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:33] Speaker B: I watched it just before our recording and I was doing it at night and I was like, oh my God. When I kept on looking, I'm like, I'm only halfway done, this movie. And like I said, I'm so late to finish that movie. Like, oh my God. [00:21:46] Speaker A: And like it's such an important story to tell and it's. It's just like a drawn out move. The movie wasn't like the same as the book anyways, I thought. And then Lion, I. I watched the movie a long time ago. So I. I think I like that. [00:21:58] Speaker B: It was a good movie. [00:21:59] Speaker A: But I also found the Mortal Life of Henrietta lacks movie. Not enough information and not as much. You know, it's like they're all the same. And then I didn't. The Hating Game was a really bad. [00:22:09] Speaker C: Was abysmal. [00:22:10] Speaker A: That was a bit. That was the worst movie. [00:22:13] Speaker C: But you know, it's kind of fun. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Because it wasn't very long. [00:22:16] Speaker C: And then my husband watches it with me and it was fun. Because it's like we're laughing and being like, oh, my God, this is too much. I don't know. [00:22:24] Speaker A: And it was worse. It was like, at least the book had some kind of tension and steamy seeds and whatever. Like the movie was just nothing. [00:22:31] Speaker B: Yeah, the movie was bad. Just bad. [00:22:33] Speaker A: So I think that maybe the moral of the story is movies will never be as good as books. So just read the book. [00:22:39] Speaker D: Right. [00:22:39] Speaker C: I think also watch the movie first. If you'll actually finish a book without knowing the ending, which I would. I'll reread a book knowing what the ending is. If I enjoy it. So bet next time I'll watch the movie first. [00:22:52] Speaker A: I don't know. I disagree. [00:22:54] Speaker C: I did that with the Hunger Games. I didn't read the Hunger Games until last season when we did it, the first book. And so I enjoyed the movies much more. I can say that even though the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie is probably a higher caliber than the other Hunger Games movies, just because it was made more recent and there's more recent developments in filmmaking, films are different than they used to be. I probably enjoyed it less than I enjoyed the first Hunger Games movies when I hadn't read the books at all. What I'm saying. [00:23:26] Speaker A: Okay, well, when I. So I'm going to pick Harry Potter as an example. When I. I watched the first movie before I read all the books. I read all the books because I watched the first movie for the whole series. I picture those actors as the characters when I'm reading the book. I love the idea of, like, making up in your head what people look like and, like, what they are and who they are and how they walk and how they. Whatever. And if you watch a movie first, then you're only gonna picture. Well, probably picture what the filmmaker wants you to see. [00:23:56] Speaker C: Harry Potter is a really good example, though, too, where the books are so long and they have so much in them and characters, like, people were, like, upset that Peeves wasn't in the movies. I didn't feel upset about that because I'd watched all the movies way before I read the books. And I think I enjoyed the books even more. And I. And then I enjoyed the movies more afterwards because, like, I learned more. I don't know. Maybe those are just good movies, even though they're not spoiled. [00:24:20] Speaker A: Yeah, they might be. I think they are pretty good movies. Even though I don't like J.K. rowling as a person. [00:24:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:26] Speaker A: So I don't know. I don't know about that. But maybe. Maybe you should watch. Maybe. [00:24:30] Speaker C: I think it's very personal, but I think I've decided maybe next time. Although, who's kidding? Who am I kidding? I'm probably just going to read books and never watch the movies that are associated with me. That's just, that's just more of who I am, maybe. [00:24:42] Speaker A: Yeah. I watch more movies than read books, so I'll probably watch more movies than read all the books anyway. So there you go. [00:24:49] Speaker B: I think that the only reason I watch a movie because I, I, I usually just watch the movies I like over and over and over. Like, I don't spread out to new movies very often, but if I read that book and a new movie comes up and I'm like, maybe I'll be adventurous, it's because I've already read the book. [00:25:06] Speaker C: Yeah. You want to relive the enjoyment of the book by watching the movie. [00:25:10] Speaker B: Yeah. But then it changes my perception of the book too, which I realized during this season is that it makes me. Especially when I've read a book, reread, and then watch the movie and reread the book. You know what I mean? Doing that, it makes me realize the movie distorted my memory of what's in the book. So that happened in Lessons in Chemistry. Already read the book. I watched this TV series and then I read the book again and I was like, oh, they changed so much. But I didn't remember. And I did the same thing with. I've done the same thing with Twilight. We don't have to talk about violent, but I died to think of Twilight. [00:25:46] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:25:47] Speaker C: I don't think we have to in every season. Recap. We need to recap. And you know what? Listeners. Do you want to surprise listeners as to whether Twilight's part of the next season or not? Or just let them wait and see. When does the next season launch? When's the website going to be up? [00:26:02] Speaker B: Our website will be up with a new season. Mid December. Just before Christmas. Just before January 1st. Yeah. Do you want to say the books you picked? [00:26:10] Speaker C: I don't know. Do you want to do it with the launch or do right now? [00:26:13] Speaker B: Let's do it now. This episode will be on January 1st, so the website will actually be finished by then. [00:26:19] Speaker C: Oh, great. [00:26:20] Speaker A: So look at our website for our new season. [00:26:23] Speaker B: It's already up there if you want to see. But I'll tell you what, it is, too. [00:26:26] Speaker C: I'm excited about my book. I was going to go serious nonfiction, and then I was like, maybe we all need a laugh. There's so many Serious books that are very good out there. But I just felt like between this podcast and then my other book club, I was just reading a lot of very serious, upsetting maybe books. And I just thought, well, maybe I just need something that I'm going to laugh out loud at. And I found this book and I've already read it. I'll read it again. I was reading parts out loud to Dan and he was laughing too. Like I was reading it out loud to the kids. Parts of it, not all of it is for adults, but. And they were laughing out loud. But it's got some serious bits too. It's not depressing. [00:27:03] Speaker B: Okay, so reveal it. [00:27:04] Speaker C: It's called Solutions and Other Problems by Ali Roche. [00:27:10] Speaker B: And it's a graphic novel. Another graphic novel that we're gonna give a draft. [00:27:13] Speaker A: The first one didn't go so great. [00:27:15] Speaker C: It's not a purely graphic novel. It is a novel that's got like stories written out and then it also has the graphic part to supplement the stories. So it's not just panels one after another. It's kind of a mix of drawings and written full sentence storytelling. [00:27:33] Speaker B: So our first graphic novel was Fun House or Fun Home. [00:27:36] Speaker A: Fun Home. [00:27:37] Speaker C: Fun Home. Like as it was funeral home. They called the funeral home Fun Home. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, right. And it was fully a graphic novel. And then we read the Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian and they said graphic novel, but it was more like a story with some drawings in it. So now this is like a blend of the two, Is that what you're saying? Yes, it's a little bit of both. [00:27:56] Speaker E: Yes. [00:27:57] Speaker B: Okay, great. All right, so everyone else's books. So Kim's book pick is the Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle. A true and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle island by Kent Monkman and Giselle Gordon. And then Ashley's book pick is Lola by Melissa Schooner. Love. It's a fiction. My book pick is the Change by Kirsten Miller. It's very witchy. It also has people in perimenopause. So I was like, all right. The change. I was feeling that at the time because I'm still waiting for my. I have some supplements coming. [00:28:38] Speaker C: So it's a horror film. [00:28:40] Speaker A: It's a horror film. [00:28:41] Speaker C: It's suspenseful. [00:28:42] Speaker A: The horror of turn be getting older. [00:28:45] Speaker B: Actually it's kind of a thriller. Like there is a dead body and the one is kind of like a psychic. I think the police are trying to say that they think it's. There's no suspicion like this woman was a drug addicted sex Worker. And they're like, no, she's not. And then more bodies start being discovered. And it was these women that. [00:29:01] Speaker A: Anyway, by the way, there's a movie speaking. We were talking about movies. Call. Oh, God, what's it called? But it's with Demi Moore. It just came out. I haven't seen it yet. But it's a horror about getting older. And she's apparently a fitness instructor or something, and she's getting older. But anyway, apparently it's quite gruesome. And I have a friend who's obsessed with horror movies and has watched thousands of them. And she says this is the best movie she's ever watched for a horror movie in her entire life, really? By Demi Moore. But it's about getting older because she thinks she's not beautiful, even though, you know, you've seen Demi Moore. [00:29:36] Speaker C: That loss of confidence part. [00:29:38] Speaker A: The substance. It's called the substance. But go just even look up the trailer. The trailer of it looks like. I love creepy and scary and like. Anyway, she raved and raved, and she's loves seen every horror movie. I think she has the, like, what? Criterion. Criterion Collection. So she says it's amazing. And it came out at tiff, and she said she saw it in the theater. Should her jaw hurt because her mouth was hanging open the whole movie so much. Oh, if you like horror movies. [00:30:07] Speaker B: I do not. I'll never watch it. Not even the trailer. But you guys watch it and tell me if you enjoy it, okay? Never. [00:30:16] Speaker A: Wonderful. [00:30:16] Speaker B: Avoid it like the flag. [00:30:18] Speaker A: Sorry I interrupted the list of books. [00:30:21] Speaker B: That's great. And then Virginia is coming back again, and she picked a book, and she picked the Women by Kristin Hannah. [00:30:30] Speaker C: That one will make you very angry. I just finished it for my other book club. Very good. Well written. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:30:36] Speaker C: Everyone at the book club were like, I was so angry. [00:30:39] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:30:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:41] Speaker A: All right. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Okay. All right. Yeah. Good thing we had the witchy one before. [00:30:46] Speaker C: It's a historical fiction, right? [00:30:48] Speaker B: About Vietnam. That's what I could see. [00:30:49] Speaker C: Vietnam. Women who Went to Vietnam. [00:30:52] Speaker B: Okay. And, Lindsay, your book pick is We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Car. [00:30:58] Speaker A: Yeah, that one's gonna make people, I think, angry, too. Upset and angry. Yeah. But my mom gave it to me because she read it. She said, you have to read this book. So that's why I read the, like, first little bit of it. So I haven't read the whole thing. [00:31:11] Speaker B: Okay. Kara's book pick is Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Durmont. And that one's supposed to be funny. And I Think this one's a memoir. Anyway, so that's it. That's next season. Leah didn't pick a book, but she's just gonna jump on other people's books because she is doing a year of no. She's like, I'm doing the year of no, so I have to say no, but I'll jump on someone else's book. I said, okay, great. [00:31:33] Speaker C: So I have to say no. So she says no to everything. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Yeah, It's a weird choice, but okay. [00:31:38] Speaker B: Great, I think, because she commits to a lot of things. [00:31:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I say no a lot. [00:31:41] Speaker B: So she schedules lots of things. Like, she has lots of things going on. And I think that she's kind of like me. Like, she commits to something and then she does too many things. So good for her. I'm supporting her 100% year of now. So, yeah, she'll jump on one of our books. She said, everyone send their books and she'll figure out which ones she's going to jump on. [00:31:58] Speaker A: Well, maybe she'll say no. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Maybe she won't jump on any. I don't think so. [00:32:04] Speaker C: I feel like it wasn't a yes or no question. I just want to know which one you're on. [00:32:08] Speaker B: Yeah, which one are you coming to? [00:32:10] Speaker A: It's funny how some people, like, we've talked about this before, but some people are very. [00:32:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:32:16] Speaker A: People say Sarah, who's like, yes, sure, I'll do that. [00:32:18] Speaker C: Yes. I'm a yes person. [00:32:19] Speaker A: I'm like, no. Most of the time I'm like, maybe I'll see how I feel and what I doing and. But generally, if. If I don't want to, then I don't. [00:32:28] Speaker C: This loops it back to the Christmas episode. You don't like the Vinyl Cafe, but the Vinyl Cafe is all about somebody saying yes and then doing whatever it takes to make that yes happen. Where you would just been like, I'm done. [00:32:40] Speaker A: This didn't work. Let's think of another solution. [00:32:43] Speaker C: Let's move on. Anyway, sorry, go on. [00:32:45] Speaker A: But I will say yeah. Like, if someone asks me for a favor or they need something from me, like, of course I'll say yes. Like, you're my. And you need your time. Yes, I'm yes for that. But if someone's. I don't know, can you join this book club that I don't want to do, I would say no. [00:33:00] Speaker C: Basically, I say no a lot to my kids so much that if I go maybe they're like, okay. Maybe means yes. I said no. Maybe means I'm thinking about they're like, yes, but you haven't found, like, a good reason to say no yet. So when I say maybe, they're like. I said, wait, let me think about it. [00:33:16] Speaker A: It's not that I know outright. It's just like, is that going to help you? Is it going to help me? Is it like I just kind of think of that and if I don't want to do it, I just don't do it. You're upset about it. It is different being. I heard this. There's a TV show called Shrinking on Apple tv. It's quite cute. I recommend. [00:33:32] Speaker C: I've heard it. [00:33:33] Speaker A: Harrison Ford is in it as the. Anyways, all the characters are excellent. I would put it on par with Ted Lasso, that Everybody loves Ted Lasso. I think it's the same kind of, like, character development, all this stuff. But the one guy referred to himself as a dink, and I was like, a dink? What's a dink? And it means double income, no kids. And I was like, I am a dink. Like, that is true, but it's. It's like being double income, no kids. You definitely have a different. You're able to say no more often. You know, I'm allowed to sleep until 11. We were supposed to start 11:30 at 11:20, be like, okay, I'm getting out of bed now. Like, you know, I'm allowed to spend money on the things I want to spend money on. I'm, you know, because I don't have anyone I'm taking care of. So I live in a very different universe than you guys do. [00:34:19] Speaker B: I am getting better. Instead of automatically saying yes, I say maybe. But I'm also married to someone who is like you. That his instant response to someone asking him something is no. And my natural response to somebody asking me something is yes. But now we're both trying to get better at just saying maybe. Yeah, maybe. [00:34:39] Speaker A: I'm better at maybe. I do a lot of maybe. [00:34:41] Speaker C: We'll see. [00:34:42] Speaker B: We'll see. I say that to the kids now all the time. We'll see. Because then it gives me a chance to be like, do I really want to do that? Or am I just saying things because it would make other people happy? So I'm getting better at that. [00:34:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll say. [00:34:56] Speaker C: I need to think about it. [00:34:57] Speaker A: This is like the usual so off topic. [00:34:59] Speaker C: Like, we're not even going to make decisions. What else happened in this season, though? Because we did some off the shelves. What was fun. We did other. It was never. [00:35:10] Speaker B: Never have I ever. [00:35:12] Speaker C: Never Have I ever was hard because everybody when the never saying that you never did was when you're supposed to make your like sound and we're making each other sound and we didn't. Everybody was having trouble deciding when to do it, if they it was because they did it or they didn't do it anyway. That was probably the most confusing. [00:35:27] Speaker B: When we did I can oink. I decided to do the oink sound, which I always have a hard time with. I. I don't know why I did that. And then we did. Would you rather we did that too? That was fun. What other off the shelf did we do? [00:35:39] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:35:39] Speaker A: Oh, you did. You know, it's really fun. This year, Sarah interviewed different authors about their books. That's a cool thing you started. [00:35:49] Speaker B: Yeah. The mini episodes are called author Spotlights. So authors approach us constantly. We joke that nobody contacts us, but authors contact us constantly. And some authors are opt into the mini episodes and some authors don't because they reach out for us to do their book. But then some don't really want to be on the interview. They just want us to read our book so we don't hear back. But we constantly get authors contacting us or authors, agents and stuff like that. [00:36:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:13] Speaker B: So this year I've interviewed so many interesting people and I have more to come. A wide range of books. Fantasy books and then memoirs. [00:36:22] Speaker C: And. [00:36:22] Speaker A: Did you read all of the books? Like, did you read all their books? No. [00:36:26] Speaker B: So that's why. So you're an author. Listen, you just come on the show. I haven't read your book. I'm going to read what your book's about on Amazon or on your website, whichever you give me, or both. And then I ask some questions about it. And I just basically allow you to plug your book, like tell our listeners why we should read your book and what your book's about. Because we just last season we had read nine books. I just don't have enough time to read any more books. And also sometimes I want to read a book that I want to read. So, no, I don't read the books. And they just. [00:36:57] Speaker A: We're not promoting these books. [00:36:59] Speaker B: We're just the authors. [00:37:01] Speaker C: Yeah, the authors promoting their book. [00:37:03] Speaker B: But some of them I really want to read. There's a guy that was on just recently, Chris. I can't remember his last name. Anyway, Chris. And he's from Ireland. He's from Belfast. When he was 21, he wanted to ride his motorbike to Australia, but that ended up, like driving all the Way down to South Africa, from Ireland, through the Middle east, through the Sierra Desert, then he's got a boat and then drove from South America all the way back up to Canada. Ended up in Argentina before he got home. [00:37:29] Speaker A: So. [00:37:30] Speaker B: Fascinating. [00:37:31] Speaker A: Cool. [00:37:31] Speaker C: Did he ever make it to Australia or. We're not supposed to know. [00:37:34] Speaker B: He did just this year. Oh, he did it in this book. And he decided his buddy was like, I just read your book, like so you've never been. And he's like, yeah. He's like, we should do that. So they just did. He just finally did it. He got the same motorcycle too. He still had it. [00:37:48] Speaker C: Wait, that's fun. [00:37:50] Speaker B: And then the Dead Rock stars. Those guys were hilarious. And they wrote a book about, you know, the 27 Club, the dead rock stars and how they're actually secret agents and they didn't die. I really want to read that book. So there's lots of amazing books of people that come on that I'll definitely read and popular books, it's just that they're not maybe super duper mainstream. But that motorcycle guys book, he has 1300 five star reviews on his book. Right. So. And he's self published. It's nice to support some authors that are self published or with small publishing houses. Some of these people are just with small publishers. So people don't really know about their books anyway. So if you're a author, come on our show, you have a little interview with me and then people can know about your book. Because there's so many books out there that aren't getting attention. [00:38:34] Speaker C: So yeah, it's interesting because if an author wanted to be on the show, the podcast, podcast, they could suggest a book they hadn't written. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Yes, that for sure. [00:38:43] Speaker C: They theme and read it and then we can all talk about it. If I was an author and you're like, no, only fans allowed to come on as co hosts, I'd be like, well, I love reading because I love books. You never can't tell. [00:38:55] Speaker B: They could because they often fill out our fan thing on our website. And then I have to say, you know our theme, like this year I'm like, it's only books to movies. So your book isn't a movie. Yeah, it has to be pretty big did become a movie. So then now it'll say Women's Center. That's not our format, but we have these many episodes. So yeah, that was really fun. I'm going to continue doing that next year. I really like meeting new people and talking about the books and next time I come To Canada. I will be definitely picking up some of these authors books. Some of them I'm like, dying to read, actually. [00:39:25] Speaker A: Yeah, cool. Very neat new addition to the book interrupted thing. [00:39:30] Speaker C: I was going to do one of the interviews and I read the book. Oh, yeah, I forgot trying to reschedule. And then, like, nothing came of it in the end. I was like, oh, well, I've read this other book. I, like, bought it. Couldn't find it at my library. [00:39:45] Speaker A: Support your local library. [00:39:46] Speaker B: Support your local library. Oh, you bought it? [00:39:48] Speaker C: Yeah, I did buy it. Like an audio version of it. And so I had, like, notes. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna ask him about this, but. Oh, well. Okay. [00:39:56] Speaker B: Well, I think that's the end of our recap. So that was a super fun season. Yeah, I like that. [00:40:00] Speaker C: I can't wait for the next season. [00:40:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I like that it's women centered. I'm excited about that. [00:40:06] Speaker C: I also like that there's a couple, like, funny books in there. [00:40:09] Speaker B: I think it's a good selection. I've already started Kim's book, the memoir of Mischief. [00:40:14] Speaker C: Eagle testicle. [00:40:15] Speaker A: With a testicle. [00:40:15] Speaker B: Eagle testicle. I couldn't remember what Berta was. Eagle testicle. Yeah. And it so far, I really like it. So we'll see. But I just. Just started it today, so that's it. Thanks, ladies. I'm glad we had someone show up. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Surprise. [00:40:31] Speaker B: Anyway, so that was fun. I can't wait to show you your pictures. They're going to be. [00:40:35] Speaker C: Are they hilarious? [00:40:36] Speaker B: They're going to be good. [00:40:37] Speaker A: Lindsey's not hilarious, but mine's not hilarious. My book is not hilarious. [00:40:41] Speaker C: So, yeah, very scary. [00:40:44] Speaker B: I think Ashley's is going to be the funniest. [00:40:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Because her book is about a drug cartel leader. So I think it'll be funny what she's doing. [00:40:52] Speaker C: Did my pictures. Was she able to put me in the bucket? [00:40:54] Speaker B: So she's doing them right now. Anyway, she's just a little comment she's given me and she's like, this is going to be great. [00:40:59] Speaker C: I'm going to be in a bucket. Lindsay, One of the first stories in my book is how she gets stuck in a bucket as a child. [00:41:05] Speaker A: That's cute. Yeah. I'm glad there's some fun books because I saw what you guys were picking and I was like, I already know some people are picking fun ones. So I was like, we got to do some serious ones too. We got to mix it up. So. [00:41:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Because we sometimes go all in one direction and we're like, oh, God. Another book about. Whatever. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Death. [00:41:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So it seems like this will be a good mix. [00:41:24] Speaker B: This year was a good mix, too. And I think next year will. The banned book season was really, really heavy on the dystopian horribleness, so. [00:41:33] Speaker C: Which is funny because that's like one of my favorite kind of novels is dystopian novels. I. I love dystopian novels and I read a really great one recently, and I was going to put it on the manuscript Mondays, but I can't remember what the name is. Do you think my library keeps a list of all the books? [00:41:50] Speaker B: They sure do. [00:41:51] Speaker A: Yes. [00:41:51] Speaker B: Yep. 100% they do. Right? [00:41:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Anyways, well, really lovely to see you both. And that's a wrap. [00:41:59] Speaker B: Season five, excellent book, Interrupted. [00:42:04] Speaker E: Happy New Year's, everyone. I hope you had a great holiday and are ready to get back into it with Book Interrupted. I do just want to start my segment by saying happy birthday to my late father. It's on January 1st, and I'm just sending you lots of love from down here. Happy birthday, dad. This is Ashley, and I'm going to be talking about two of my favorite books this season and two of my least favorite books this season. And just to get the negative out of the way, let's start with it. My least favorite. Sorry, Lindsay, but it's the Hating Game. I didn't like the synopsis going into it. I didn't finish the book. I got about halfway, I think at exactly 50% of the audiobook. And I didn't watch the movie. I don't like romances where the people who like each other are mean to each other. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was bullied my whole life. I really don't like it. I don't think it's romantic or cute or something sweet, but that's not the general consensus. People love the Hating Game. It's just me. So, anyways, if you're into that, the Hating Game will definitely be the book or movie for you. Now, on to some positives. My absolute favorite book and movie of this season, and if you know me, it's no surprise. It's the Hunger Games. A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I was so obsessed with the original trilogy. I watched the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in theaters, I think three or four times. Bought the movie when it came out. I read the book when it came out, reread it for the podcast. Love it. Snow in this. Ooh, Snow lands on top. That's all I'm gonna say. Okay. If you end up watching it, don't be afraid to ever shoot me a DM or anything to chat about it because I will always be happy to talk about the Hunger Games. So I hope some of you guys loved it as much as I did. My second favorite book of the season was the BFG Big Friendly Giant, and that's because I thought it was so cute. It was really sweet. It brought me back to my childhood. It's not a book I would have read at this time in my life without the podcast, and I thought it was a great palette cleanser in between some of the heavier books that we read or the longer books. So yeah, really enjoyed that. The movie's so cute. Audiobook for that is really great. And then not to end it off on a negative note or anything, but my second least favorite book of the season was Killers of the Flower Moon and I think it's just because I know so many people personally who have gone through such similar situations that I have a hard time reading it. I was the same in school learning about Indigenous studies. I have a really hard time learning about the bad things, I guess, that have happened to my people. But I do really appreciate Kim for how much effort she puts into bringing awareness to Indigenous peoples and their stories. So it's not the pick itself. I just generally have a hard time hearing such sad stories kind of thing. But other than that, I did enjoy reading the book. I do think it's a great one out there. So if you're looking for something to read, that's also a lovely one. But I would read the Hunger Games, A Ballad of Softened Birds and Snakes first. So I hope you guys enjoyed this season and I can't wait to read everything for season five. Bye. [00:45:19] Speaker B: Thank you for joining us on this episode of Book Interrupted. If you'd like to see the video highlights from this episode, please go to our YouTube channel, book interrupted. You can also find our videos on www.bookinterrupted.com. [00:45:34] Speaker D: Bookies, we really want to hear from you. Go to www.bookinterrupted.com to find out the variety of ways you can get in touch. Give us a call and leave a voicemail and we will play it on the podcast. Or write us an email and we can read it on the podcast. Or better yet, leave us a review on itunes. Anything bookies, we want to hear from you. Pretty please tell us what you like. Tell us what you don't like. Tell us books you think we should read. Tell us about your favorite moments. Tell us anything please. We want to know what you think. So don't forget, that's www.bookinterrupted.com or iTunes. And leave us a review. We will love to hear from you. Talk to you soon. [00:46:22] Speaker A: Bookies Book interrupted. [00:46:26] Speaker D: Never forget, every child matters.