September 1, 2025 • 33 mins
Words can paint amazing pictures, but sometimes you really need to see the story come to life on a screen. In this episode, Nicole, Drew, Killian, and Amanda put their cinematographer hats on and discuss which books would lend themselves well to being made into a movie or a TV show.
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- (Nicole) Hey, there,
welcome to "The DistractedLibrarians" podcast.
We are yourfriendly-neighborhood bookworms
with a penchant forall things pop culture.
- (Drew) Picture thisas our digital campfire
where we dive into our latest obsessions,
analyze our favorite distractions,
and rediscover the joy of reading.
- (Killian) Whether you're amedia enthusiast, a book lover,
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or just need a break from the daily grind,
you've come to the right spot.
- (Amanda) So kick back, relax,
and get delightfully distracted with us.
- (Nicole) Hey, everybody.
On today's episode of "TheDistracted Librarians,"
we are going to talk about books
we wish were movies or TV shows.
So I am Nicole.
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- (Amanda) I'm Amanda.
- (Killian) I'm Killian.
- (Drew) And I'm Drew.
- (Nicole) All right, howmany times have you finished a
book and thought, "This wouldbe incredible on screen"?
- (Drew) Yes.
(group laughing)- (Killian) How many?
- (Nicole) Like, I don'tknow if we can count
all those times, but yes.
- (Killian) One of my notes is an author
and she has over 30 books, so...
- (Nicole) All of them?
(01:05):
Wow.
- (Drew) All of them deserve shows.
- (Killian) I would take all of them.
- (Nicole) Okay, wow. Oh my goodness.
Well, so today we're gonnatalk about three-ish books
that we each think shouldbe turned into a movie
or television show.
So I hope, if there'sanybody really important
in the movie industry out there listening,
that they will take note.
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- (Drew) We are the market.
- (Nicole) Absolutely.
- (Killian) Can I go first?
- (Nicole) Yeah, go first.- (Killian) Okay.
- (Nicole) Chomping at the bit.
- (Killian) I'm notgonna start with the one
that has 30 books, that's for later,
but this is my current,
if I think about it too hard,
it infuriates me too much
because this startedto be made into a show
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and then they canceled itbefore it got to the best parts.
- (Nicole) No!
- (Killian) I will never get over
"Shadow and Bone" being canceled.
Not for the "Shadow and Bone" storyline,
but for the "Six of Crows"storylines we never got,
because I adore that bookwith every fiber of my being.
(02:07):
Talking about audio books,like in another episode,
I should have talked about "Six of Crows."
But I am obsessed with these characters
and they brought them into thestart of "Shadow and Bone,"
which was like, cool, I getto see these characters I love
in this storyline that I'ma little more meh about.
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But then I didn't get the good parts.
- (Nicole) Oh, man.- (Killian) And I,
if I think about it too hard,
I am simply filled withrage that we never got it.
Drew understands, he's heard this.
- (Nicole) I also love those books,
but I didn't watch the show
and I think I didn't watch the show
because everyone I talked to was like,
"Oh, by the way, it got canceled,
so what are you gonna do?"
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So, I guess they'll live in my head
unless you guys tell meotherwise that I should watch it.
- (Drew) It's the reversalof it that is so painful
because for a minute there theywere talking about the show
having the viewershipthat would merit them
splitting the shows,
and just giving "Six ofCrows" its own thing.
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- (Nicole) Which would've been amazing.
- (Drew) Now that thecharacters are established.
- (Nicole) Yeah.- (Drew) They were talking
about how like now that season,
season three of "Shadow and Bone"
would've been beyond thebooks of "Shadow and Bone,"
but they wanted to keep the characters.
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Drew) So they were starting
to write their own for those characters
and mixing in the "Six of Crows" stuff
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would have split everything too much,
so they were going to makethem both their own show
and then all of a suddencanceled everything.
- (Nicole) Gotcha.
Could we talk a little bit briefly
about what the series is about
just so that our audience members can-
- (Killian) Sure.
- (Nicole) Can you summarize it slightly?
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- (Killian) Oh, boy.
Can I do this at the drop of a hat?
- (Nicole) It's a lot.- (Killian) We're gonna try.
- (Amanda) I believe in you.
- (Drew) For Six or forShadow, or for both?
- (Nicole) Well, okay, so the show itself
is a mingling of both, right?
- (Killian) If you want the"Shadow and Bone" backstory,
go watch the show, it exists.
- (Nicole) There you go.
- (Killian) "Six of Crows"is a YA fantasy heist novel
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that is these six misfitswith wild backstories each,
and you get all of their backstories.
And we get some of that inthe "Shadow and Bone" show,
who are brought togetherby the ringleader,
who one of my cats is named after.
And if that tells you howI feel about this book,
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my cats are both named after characters,
but they're brought together
to pull off this basicallyimpossible heist.
And it is their wholeprocess of doing that,
what each of them gets out of it,
the fact that they don't go into this
all being like onboard witheveryone else being involved,
and just the truly miraculous planning
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and execution of this heistthat it's so well done.
It's so good.
And I don't always see likethe cinematography of a book
as I'm reading it or eventhinking about it after
when I'm like,
"Yes, this should be a movie or TV show."
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This one I can.
- (Nicole) Yeah, it's pretty,
'cause there's a lot of adventure
and the character buildingis really good too.
- (Killian) And this whole world is
based in Russian folklore
and fairytale traditionsthat is so different
from a lot of very more like
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fully European medieval vibes.
- (Nicole) Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
- (Killian) So it also just hasa whole different feel to it
And I understand that someof that high fantasy element
is why it is harder to make a show
or a movie of because-- (Nicole) Oh, sure, yeah,
they have to have so many special effects
and everything.- (Killian) Budgeting
for all of that is wild.
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But they started it.
- (Amanda) Yeah, they promised you.
- (Killian) You know, yes.
I've been betrayed
and I will forever feelbetrayed by Netflix.
- (Nicole) Well, maybe someday,
somebody will get a bee intheir bonnet to do it right.
It could be you, Killian.
- (Amanda) Ooh.
- (Killian) I'm not a filmmaker,
but if anyone out there is.
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Get at me, please!
(all giggling)
- (Nicole) All right, anybody else?
- (Amanda) So a bookthat probably the top one
that I would really love to see as a movie
or a limited TV series is "Morning Star"
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by Karl Ove Knausgard.
And I actually recommendthis book for you, Nicole.
- (Nicole) Okay, I'm writing it down.
- (Amanda) It's horror.
- (Nicole) Love that.- (Amanda) Supernatural.
It is really long, so Ithink it's intimidating, but-
- (Nicole) I have no problem with that.
- (Amanda) I was captivatedfor all 666 pages.
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- (Nicole) Oh, seriously?
No way!
This is a book for me.
I just found that book, I love it!
- (Amanda) So you feel souncomfortable reading this
and the premise is that you get vignettes
into the lives of, we'llsay eight people, 10 people.
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- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Amanda) And they're all experiencing
the same time in the same place.
And what happens is, bookis titled "Morning Star"
and there's this huge star
that sort of ascends ordescends closer to Earth.
It is lighting up the sky duringthe day, during the night.
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Super creepy.
People are like, "What isthis like astrological event?"
And then weird things start happening
and some of them are in the natural world,
some of them veer on, thisis totally impossible,
this is supernatural.
Some of them are just,
these people are acting strangely
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and everything throughoutit is just so creepy.
And he's sort of like this master
of making you feel uncomfortable
and questioning what's going on.
Is it a natural phenomenon,spiritual phenomenon,
something in the water, what is it?
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And it's very much inthe vein of A24 films.
If I was gonna pick someone, it'd be like,
to make this, it'd be like Ari Aster
who did "Hereditary" and "Midsommar."
And he also, I just found out
was the executive producer of "Rumors."
Did anyone see "Rumors"or hear about that?
- (Nicole) Mm-mm.- (Amanda) Okay.
- (Drew) I'm aware of it becauseI bought it for the library
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But no, I've not watched it.
- (Amanda) Okay, "Rumors"is for a specific person,
it's not for everyone.
I wouldn't be widelyrecommending it to people
at the library, but I loved the movie.
It's super weird.
And so, like, knowingthat he did that movie
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or had a hand in it as well,
I was like, "You are theright person for this."
But I also think it would have a ton
of really interestingvisuals with this eerie star
lighting up the night sky.
- (Nicole) Sure, that sounds awesome.
- (Amanda) Yeah, so heis, I believe Swedish.
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- (Nicole) And I love that too.
The Swedes know their horror.
- (Amanda) No, totally, totally.
It is like, right in that samevein of what was the vampire-
- (Nicole) "Let the Right One In."
- (Amanda) Yes, "Let theRight One In" is so good.
So that's still same like eeriness,
the starkness of-
- (Nicole) Very cool.- (Amanda) The landscape.
- (Nicole) Nice.- (Amanda) Yeah.
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- (Nicole) Very nice.
I am going to talk reallyquickly about a book
that I just read.
I got the advanced reader copy for this
and it is now out so I can talk about it.
It is written by Stephen Graham Jones
and it is called "Buffalo Hunter Hunter."
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Stephen Graham Jones is theIndigenous Stephen King.
- (Drew) Yeah.
- (Nicole) He writes horrorand supernatural stuff
in such a way that likeI am just so engaged
and I love everything, all of it.
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He usually has Indigenous characters.
So that's really kind of a nice
and interesting take on things.
He also wrote "Only Good Indians"
and there are a couple othersthat he had written as well.
Anyway, so I was very excited when I saw
that he had a new book coming out
and I was like, "I gotta getthis advanced reader copy."
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It has like so many things that I love
because it's a vampire novel.
And it's interesting because,
let me just read the synopsis to you guys
and you can tell me what you think.
- (Drew) Okay.
- (Nicole) "A diary written in 1912
by a Lutheran pastor isdiscovered within a wall.
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What it unveils is a slow massacre,
a chain of events that go back
to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow.
Told and transcribedinterviews by a Blackfeet
named Good Stab who shares the narrative
of his peculiar life over aseries of confessional visits."
Now, that synopsis saysnothing about vampires,
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but this particular Blackfeet
that is talking to thispastor is a vampire.
And he goes into great depthof how he became a vampire
and the things that he has done
over the course of thecouple hundred years of life
that he's lived.
And it is just haunting
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because, like, we know vampires,
we've got the Eastern European vampires
coming out of the wazoo,
but have we ever had anIndigenous vampire before?
- (Amanda) Not that I've heard of.
- (Nicole) And this Indigenous vampire
is not happy about the white man.
So it is really, really wonderful.
And I think as a movie or a show
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would just be fantastically beautiful.
So that's my first one.
- (Nicole) I'm interested.
- (Drew) I will do what Ithought I would never be the one
to do and say let's step awayfrom fantasy for a second.
(all laughing)
- (Nicole) No!
- (Drew) Just for a second'cause most of mine are,
but the one I want the mostis "Yellowface," R. F. Kuang.
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- (Nicole) Oh, okay.
- (Drew) I just think in the same vein
as like the "Apple Cider Vinegar,"
wellness guru show
that came out on Netflix recently,
their whole "Inventing Anna"bit a little bit before
would fit so well in that likegenre of limited release show
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where like you get this character
that you know from thestart is the problem
and all of the ridiculousthings that she does
to try and get out fromunder this massive problem
that she's gotten herselfinto with her lies
and stacking everythingon top of each other
and waiting for the last domino to fall.
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I think it would be so funto see portrayed like that.
For people who don't know what it is,
"Yellowface" is a book about an author
who is struggling to gether footing in the world
and is upset at the number,
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at what she sees as theamount of opportunities
that minorities or own voice speakers get.
So when her friend Athena dies
I think eating birthday cake or something,
this is in the first like two chapters,
I'm not spoiling anything.
She decides to, instead ofreport this death to the police,
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just go and steal hermanuscript for her next book.
Which is about like oneof the Chinese wars,
like this girl has beenbeen researching this book
for years and years,
and finish it on her own
and make her own tweaksand publish it as her own.
- (Nicole) Whoa.
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- (Drew) And this isthis little white girl
who has no tie to this story,
and it becomes this massivephenomenon of, you know,
how did you get the idea for this book?
What was your research process like?
What's your personal tie to this?
And she's just digging herselfin deeper, lie after lie,
because she can't say the truth.
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- (Nicole) Wow.
- (Drew) And it's such an interesting book
of like knowing that youare rooting against her
and kind of waiting for howhilarious the downfall is.
And I think that'd be done so well
in a short limited edition TV show.
- (Nicole) Nice. I love that.
All right, do we have any more?
(15:23):
I know we have more.
- (Killian) I have a 30-booklist from one author.
- (Nicole) A 30-book list.- (Drew) Do it.
- (Killian) I'm notgonna list all the books.
- (Drew) In order.
- (Killian) Absolutely not.
There's two different worlds, which world?
Tamora Pierce has beenone of my favorite authors
since I was in middle school.
And I have recently been looking
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at going back and rereading everything.
A lot of her books are things
that I fall asleep listening to,
I hear parts of them regularly.
But I wanna go back andactually read them through
and like fully process themto see if they stand up
because the first ones werewritten before I was born.
Like, this is a longstandingcareer of writing.
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But she's written basicallytwo main universes.
You have the Tortall Universeand the Emelan Universe
and they are some different vibes,
different takes on magic andfantasy and storytelling.
And I just want to be able
to be more immersed in thoseworlds than I already am
having read this plethoraof books about them.
(16:30):
So her first series was "TheSong of the Lioness Quartet"
with Alanna, the Lioness, whois training to be a knight,
but she has to disguiseherself as a boy to do it.
So she basically rebuilds herself
as her twin brother's twinbrother instead of twin sister.
And he goes off to study magic
and she goes to become a knight.
And it's her going through the training
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and process to become a knight
and then being a knightthroughout the quartet.
And it's so good.
It's one of the earliest books
that I know of that really did a good job
of portraying, like, whatpuberty is, like, for girls.
And, like, it talks about
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when she first startsbleeding and things like that.
And it's things that are really important
to have in children's books
that you didn't really see a lot of.
- (Amanda) Right.
- (Killian) And to see it in fantasy,
'cause it also gets left out of fantasy.
But then it went fromthat series into a series
about a girl who has magicto speak with animals.
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And you see callbacks to Alanna
and the characters from the first series.
And then it goes into another series
about another girl who'strained to be a knight,
but now she doesn't have to hide
the way Alanna did,
and her process,
and how that's different from Alanna
and how she's different from Alanna
because they're very different characters.
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And then there's a series
that is one of myfavorites by Tamora Pierce
is the "Daughter of the Lioness" series,
where Alanna's teenage daughter
is now stepping out into the world
and taking her own place in the world
in a way that her parentsdon't want her to be.
And so, there's another series
then calls back to anancestor of Alanna's husband
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and things like that.
It's a huge world that'sall interconnected
and you see cameos throughout it.
So I really just wanta longstanding TV show
that does all of that.
And I wanna see thenan Emelan one as well,
with this great,
the great takes on magicbeing innate versus studied,
and these four kids whohave this innate magic
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that wasn't recognized untilthey were just just shy
of being teenagers and howthat affects their lives.
And I'm just, just,again, it's high fantasy.
It's so expensive, it's so hard to do.
I get it, these havebeen around for a while,
someone just do it.
And I am not the only onewho has put out a call
to make Tamora Piercebooks into movies or books,
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I've seen conversations.
- (Nicole) I think the technology
is there to pull off someof these fantasy things now.
- (Killian) Absolutely.- (Nicole) Just saying.
It's not like it used to be. So yeah.
- (Killian) So yeah, thatis my plea number two
to the world of movies and TV.
Please just give me, honestly, in general,
more high fantasy TV and movies.
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- (Nicole) I love that.
- (Killian) Just what I want.
- (Nicole) The other two thingsthat I have are both fantasy
So, you know.
- (Amanda) I have a fantasyone, maybe I'll save it
or skip it because that is a common theme,
but one that is not,
because one of the other reasons
I wanna see somethingdone as a movie or TV show
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is that it's like somethingthat's really highly visual.
And this one is "PatternRecognition" by William Gibson
and he takes you throughLondon, Moscow, and Tokyo.
So I think that would bereally interesting visually.
But I think that it's aslightly different universe.
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It's like the universe that we know,
but, like, I know at one point I read
that it's as if September11th never happened.
So like there are world events
have unfolded slightly different.
So I think that you could build the world
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to be
visually really interesting.
And it could be sort of somewhere
in the recent past orrecent future depending.
Because of William Gibson'ssort of style of Sci-Fi,
I sort of see it as being this
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like "Blade Runner" type of thing.
Not where there's like high technology,
but, again, just likeEarth, but just different.
So anyway, I think thatsomeone who's brilliant
could do really cool things with it.
But the themes in it, Ithink are really applicable.
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This was written in the 1990s
and you have your main character
who is this woman who is highly-sensitive
to corporate logos and advertisements.
So she works as a consultant to be like,
"Is this a good logo?
Does this advertise and campaign work?"
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And her father is a spy.
So you get these impressions
that maybe someone's following her
and she's like sort ofin an underground world.
And where it intersects in a way
that's really was predictive
was the idea that marketing
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could be done in a guerilla type of way.
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Amanda) And marketing
could sort of change thezeitgeist of societies,
just how spycraft sort of could change
the course of world events.
- (Nicole) Okay.
(22:19):
- (Amanda) And this wasbefore influencer culture.
- (Nicole) Yeah.- (Amanda) And so now
when I look at it,
I'm like, "Oh, like, thisis very much predicting
influencer culture."- Wow, that's crazy.
- And they give examples of, like,
someone goes to bars strategically,
accidentally bumps intothe person next to them
(22:40):
and it was like, oh,strikes up a conversation,
"Have you tried this beer or something?"
So like this way of like,
we're gonna do directmarketing in a sort of
- (Nicole) Organic way.
- (Amanda) Organic and clandestine way.
- (Nicole) Yeah.
- (Amanda) Which is whatwe're experiencing a lot,
and influencer culture
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has sort of changed thezeitgeist of society
as well as like sort ofthe course of world events.
- (Drew) Oh, for sure.
- (Amanda) So I thinkthat if someone did this
and took it in a way that highlighted
the hugely influential ways
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that marketing has on people in general,
I think it'd be super cool.
- (Nicole) That's really interesting.
- (Amanda) I recommend thebook though, obviously.
- (Nicole) Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
Another book that Iwould love to see on film
would be "Emily Wilde'sEncyclopaedia of Faeries"
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By Heather Fawcett.
This is a series of books.
There's three now.
And I absolutely fell inlove with these books.
They have like a slightromantic element to them.
But I think my favorite partis the character Emily Wilde.
She is kind of a frumpy,scholarly type of person.
(24:09):
She isn't the most, what'sthe word I'm looking for?
Like, some of the cultural norms
don't really affect her in the same way.
So she blurts things out at people
that maybe she shouldn't say,
but she happens to be the foremost expert
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on the study of fairies.
So she is constantly writing a book
and that's kind of like thewhole gist around these books
is that this is thebook that she's writing
and they're done in kindof a journal sort of way.
So the first one is her doingher "Encyclopaedia of Faeries"
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and she goes on these crazyadventures with her dog Shadow,
who's not actually just aregular dog, he's something else.
- (Amanda) Ah, of course.
- (Nicole) But also she has this rival
who is Wendell Bambleby
who comes along withher, much to her chagrin,
and there are these reallycute sort of romantic things
(25:13):
that happen between this veryhandsome professor Bambleby
and this other professor
that knows the folk better than anybody,
but doesn't know people very well.
I think it'd be really cute.
- (Drew) Wendell Bandleby.
Is it Bambleby?
- (Nicole) Bambleby.
- (Drew) Is an incredible name.
- (Nicole) Isn't it great?- (Killian) Truly, yes.
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- (Drew) Another one that Iwould love to see is called,
"How You Say I Do" by Tal Bauer.
It is a romance.
So a guy who is going to aresort for his brother's wedding,
one for Caribbean islands,
is getting on the plane
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and, you know, waiting inthe airport for his plane
and sees someone justsobbing into their whiskey
at the bar in the airport.
And everyone is giving him like,
the widest berth
and just letting him exist there.
And Wyatt instead is like,
"No, no, I'm gonna talk to this person,
see if they're okay."
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They end up getting on the same flight.
He was just left byhis fiance at the altar
and is now going on his honeymoon solo
and is not having a good time with it.
- (Nicole) I guess not.
- (Drew) So the book separates itself
into really good sections.
It starts, you know, at the resort
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and their sort of one week courtship
where neither of them aretreating it as real life
and then real life comes back into it.
One is from New York,the other is from Texas.
And they initially decide
they don't want anything to do with it,
but they can't seem to getthat person off their mind.
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Romance ensues, of course,
but I just think the different areas
that the story takes place in,
the resort, Manhattan, a ranch in Texas.
- (Nicole) Sure.
- (Drew) Would be really cinematic and
interesting with each other.
It's such a good story and I need it.
(27:23):
I just need it in frontof my eyes in this moment.
- (Nicole) Awesome. I love that.
All right, does anyonehave to like have a third?
No?
I will share a third
just so that I can saythat we did three-ish.
- (Drew) Bet.
- (Nicole) Because we said three-ish.
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I would like to see"Impossible Creatures."
It's a children's book byKatherine Rundell, on film,
because I can like picture
how beautiful everythingabout this book is.
It is a kids fiction book
about a boy named Christopher
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who saves a drowning baby griffin.
Okay, so here we are, right?
Right from the get go,something fantastic happens
and it happens very close to this.
He's going to stay with hisgrandfather for the summer
and his grandfather keepssaying, "Don't go up the hill."
And you know what happens
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when your grandfather tellsyou don't go up the hill,
somebody's going up the hill.
He went up the hill andthere's a lake there
and there's this babygriffin that's drowning.
And he had never seensomething so fantastic
in his entire life.
Hence the impossible creatures.
So he ends up basicallygoing on this adventure
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into this other world through the lake.
He goes to this other place
where all of the fantasticimpossible creatures live.
So there's unicorns and dragons
and anything you could possibly think of
in this other place.
And he is helping the chosen one,
which is this scrappy little girl
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that happens to be theowner of the griffin.
And everything about themagic of this place is dying
and nobody can figure out what's going on.
And somehow, Mal, the girl
is intricately tied into thehealth of this entire world.
So there's adventure, there'sa berserker, which I love.
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Throw me all the berserkers of the world.
There is a woman who only sails the seas
and knows everything
about these very amazingaquatic creatures.
It just sounds like it wouldbe a treat for the eyes.
- (Killian) I have one more.
- (Nicole) You have one more?
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- (Killian) Because Ineed Drew's take on this.
- (Nicole) All right, let's do it.
- (Killian) It just came into my mind
and I simply need to.- (Drew) I'm in.
- (Killian) "Love atSecond Sight" in the style
of a 2000s teen movie.
- (Drew) Immediately yes.
- (Killian) "Love at SecondSight" is about a boy
starting a sophomore year of high school
in a world where supernatural creatures
are just part of life.
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There's like werewolves
and psychics and witches andall these different things,
- (Drew) And they all justgo to the school together.
- (Nicole) Of course, as they would.
- (Killian) But he is not supernatural.
And his parents are madthat he's going to school
with his best friend forthe first time in years,
'cause they got redistricted back
into the same district or the same school,
and his best friend is a witch.
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- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Killian) So first day of school,
his best friend's like, "Hey,like, yes, this is great,
but I also have theseresponsibilities being a witch,
so I gotta deal with those.
So maybe you should alsomake some new friends too,"
which is just what you wannahear from your best friend.
And then he ends up caughtin the middle of this fight
when he kind of stormsaway from his friend
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and gets knocked down
and has this vision of this girl
he doesn't know being killed.
And he's seeing this from the perspective
of the person killing her.
- (Nicole) Wow.- (Killian) And he realizes
he has this very rare type of supernatural
called the clairvoyant.
And now suddenly all ofthe supernatural factions
want him as an ally.
- (Nicole) Okay.
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- (Killian) But it's like,okay, do you wanna be my friend?
Do you just want me toally with your faction?
All of this stuff.
And he also has thiswhole mystery to solve.
And I just think, like,
in the tradition ofearly 2000s teen movies,
it would be so good.
- (Nicole) Nice. I love that.
- (Killian) But I'm alsoobsessed with this book.
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I messaged Drew screaming aboutit while I was reading it,
so that's why it needed to berun by Drew in this moment.
- (Drew) No, it wouldbe perfect for it too,
because the pacing of thebook is opening itself up
to be sectioned into Act1, Act 2, Act 3 really well
of like the discovery of the power,
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the forming of the unlikely friend group
around which they're trying
to like amateur solve the mystery,
but also trying to integrate Cal, Cam?
- (Killian) Cam.- (Drew) Cam into the world.
And then Act 3 dealing withthe mystery all of a sudden.
It would set itself up real well for it.
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- (Nicole) Awesome,that sounds super cool.
All right, everybody,thank you for listening
and we will see you next time.
Thank you for joining us for this episode
of "Distracted Librarians."
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- (Nicole) Hey, there,
welcome to "The DistractedLibrarians" podcast.
We are yourfriendly-neighborhood bookworms
with a penchant forall things pop culture.
- (Drew) Picture thisas our digital campfire
where we dive into our latest obsessions,
analyze our favorite distractions,
and rediscover the joy of reading.
- (Killian) Whether you're amedia enthusiast, a book lover,
(00:21):
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you've come to the right spot.
- (Amanda) So kick back, relax,
and get delightfully distracted with us.
- (Nicole) Hey, everybody.
On today's episode of "TheDistracted Librarians,"
we are going to talk about books
we wish were movies or TV shows.
So I am Nicole.
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- (Amanda) I'm Amanda.
- (Killian) I'm Killian.
- (Drew) And I'm Drew.
- (Nicole) All right, howmany times have you finished a
book and thought, "This wouldbe incredible on screen"?
- (Drew) Yes.
(group laughing)- (Killian) How many?
- (Nicole) Like, I don'tknow if we can count
all those times, but yes.
- (Killian) One of my notes is an author
and she has over 30 books, so...
- (Nicole) All of them?
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Wow.
- (Drew) All of them deserve shows.
- (Killian) I would take all of them.
- (Nicole) Okay, wow. Oh my goodness.
Well, so today we're gonnatalk about three-ish books
that we each think shouldbe turned into a movie
or television show.
So I hope, if there'sanybody really important
in the movie industry out there listening,
that they will take note.
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- (Drew) We are the market.
- (Nicole) Absolutely.
- (Killian) Can I go first?
- (Nicole) Yeah, go first.- (Killian) Okay.
- (Nicole) Chomping at the bit.
- (Killian) I'm notgonna start with the one
that has 30 books, that's for later,
but this is my current,
if I think about it too hard,
it infuriates me too much
because this startedto be made into a show
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and then they canceled itbefore it got to the best parts.
- (Nicole) No!
- (Killian) I will never get over
"Shadow and Bone" being canceled.
Not for the "Shadow and Bone" storyline,
but for the "Six of Crows"storylines we never got,
because I adore that bookwith every fiber of my being.
(02:07):
Talking about audio books,like in another episode,
I should have talked about "Six of Crows."
But I am obsessed with these characters
and they brought them into thestart of "Shadow and Bone,"
which was like, cool, I getto see these characters I love
in this storyline that I'ma little more meh about.
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But then I didn't get the good parts.
- (Nicole) Oh, man.- (Killian) And I,
if I think about it too hard,
I am simply filled withrage that we never got it.
Drew understands, he's heard this.
- (Nicole) I also love those books,
but I didn't watch the show
and I think I didn't watch the show
because everyone I talked to was like,
"Oh, by the way, it got canceled,
so what are you gonna do?"
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So, I guess they'll live in my head
unless you guys tell meotherwise that I should watch it.
- (Drew) It's the reversalof it that is so painful
because for a minute there theywere talking about the show
having the viewershipthat would merit them
splitting the shows,
and just giving "Six ofCrows" its own thing.
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- (Nicole) Which would've been amazing.
- (Drew) Now that thecharacters are established.
- (Nicole) Yeah.- (Drew) They were talking
about how like now that season,
season three of "Shadow and Bone"
would've been beyond thebooks of "Shadow and Bone,"
but they wanted to keep the characters.
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Drew) So they were starting
to write their own for those characters
and mixing in the "Six of Crows" stuff
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would have split everything too much,
so they were going to makethem both their own show
and then all of a suddencanceled everything.
- (Nicole) Gotcha.
Could we talk a little bit briefly
about what the series is about
just so that our audience members can-
- (Killian) Sure.
- (Nicole) Can you summarize it slightly?
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- (Killian) Oh, boy.
Can I do this at the drop of a hat?
- (Nicole) It's a lot.- (Killian) We're gonna try.
- (Amanda) I believe in you.
- (Drew) For Six or forShadow, or for both?
- (Nicole) Well, okay, so the show itself
is a mingling of both, right?
- (Killian) If you want the"Shadow and Bone" backstory,
go watch the show, it exists.
- (Nicole) There you go.
- (Killian) "Six of Crows"is a YA fantasy heist novel
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that is these six misfitswith wild backstories each,
and you get all of their backstories.
And we get some of that inthe "Shadow and Bone" show,
who are brought togetherby the ringleader,
who one of my cats is named after.
And if that tells you howI feel about this book,
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my cats are both named after characters,
but they're brought together
to pull off this basicallyimpossible heist.
And it is their wholeprocess of doing that,
what each of them gets out of it,
the fact that they don't go into this
all being like onboard witheveryone else being involved,
and just the truly miraculous planning
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and execution of this heistthat it's so well done.
It's so good.
And I don't always see likethe cinematography of a book
as I'm reading it or eventhinking about it after
when I'm like,
"Yes, this should be a movie or TV show."
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This one I can.
- (Nicole) Yeah, it's pretty,
'cause there's a lot of adventure
and the character buildingis really good too.
- (Killian) And this whole world is
based in Russian folklore
and fairytale traditionsthat is so different
from a lot of very more like
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fully European medieval vibes.
- (Nicole) Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
- (Killian) So it also just hasa whole different feel to it
And I understand that someof that high fantasy element
is why it is harder to make a show
or a movie of because-- (Nicole) Oh, sure, yeah,
they have to have so many special effects
and everything.- (Killian) Budgeting
for all of that is wild.
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But they started it.
- (Amanda) Yeah, they promised you.
- (Killian) You know, yes.
I've been betrayed
and I will forever feelbetrayed by Netflix.
- (Nicole) Well, maybe someday,
somebody will get a bee intheir bonnet to do it right.
It could be you, Killian.
- (Amanda) Ooh.
- (Killian) I'm not a filmmaker,
but if anyone out there is.
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Get at me, please!
(all giggling)
- (Nicole) All right, anybody else?
- (Amanda) So a bookthat probably the top one
that I would really love to see as a movie
or a limited TV series is "Morning Star"
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by Karl Ove Knausgard.
And I actually recommendthis book for you, Nicole.
- (Nicole) Okay, I'm writing it down.
- (Amanda) It's horror.
- (Nicole) Love that.- (Amanda) Supernatural.
It is really long, so Ithink it's intimidating, but-
- (Nicole) I have no problem with that.
- (Amanda) I was captivatedfor all 666 pages.
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- (Nicole) Oh, seriously?
No way!
This is a book for me.
I just found that book, I love it!
- (Amanda) So you feel souncomfortable reading this
and the premise is that you get vignettes
into the lives of, we'llsay eight people, 10 people.
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- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Amanda) And they're all experiencing
the same time in the same place.
And what happens is, bookis titled "Morning Star"
and there's this huge star
that sort of ascends ordescends closer to Earth.
It is lighting up the sky duringthe day, during the night.
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Super creepy.
People are like, "What isthis like astrological event?"
And then weird things start happening
and some of them are in the natural world,
some of them veer on, thisis totally impossible,
this is supernatural.
Some of them are just,
these people are acting strangely
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and everything throughoutit is just so creepy.
And he's sort of like this master
of making you feel uncomfortable
and questioning what's going on.
Is it a natural phenomenon,spiritual phenomenon,
something in the water, what is it?
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And it's very much inthe vein of A24 films.
If I was gonna pick someone, it'd be like,
to make this, it'd be like Ari Aster
who did "Hereditary" and "Midsommar."
And he also, I just found out
was the executive producer of "Rumors."
Did anyone see "Rumors"or hear about that?
- (Nicole) Mm-mm.- (Amanda) Okay.
- (Drew) I'm aware of it becauseI bought it for the library
(09:00):
But no, I've not watched it.
- (Amanda) Okay, "Rumors"is for a specific person,
it's not for everyone.
I wouldn't be widelyrecommending it to people
at the library, but I loved the movie.
It's super weird.
And so, like, knowingthat he did that movie
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or had a hand in it as well,
I was like, "You are theright person for this."
But I also think it would have a ton
of really interestingvisuals with this eerie star
lighting up the night sky.
- (Nicole) Sure, that sounds awesome.
- (Amanda) Yeah, so heis, I believe Swedish.
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- (Nicole) And I love that too.
The Swedes know their horror.
- (Amanda) No, totally, totally.
It is like, right in that samevein of what was the vampire-
- (Nicole) "Let the Right One In."
- (Amanda) Yes, "Let theRight One In" is so good.
So that's still same like eeriness,
the starkness of-
- (Nicole) Very cool.- (Amanda) The landscape.
- (Nicole) Nice.- (Amanda) Yeah.
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- (Nicole) Very nice.
I am going to talk reallyquickly about a book
that I just read.
I got the advanced reader copy for this
and it is now out so I can talk about it.
It is written by Stephen Graham Jones
and it is called "Buffalo Hunter Hunter."
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Stephen Graham Jones is theIndigenous Stephen King.
- (Drew) Yeah.
- (Nicole) He writes horrorand supernatural stuff
in such a way that likeI am just so engaged
and I love everything, all of it.
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He usually has Indigenous characters.
So that's really kind of a nice
and interesting take on things.
He also wrote "Only Good Indians"
and there are a couple othersthat he had written as well.
Anyway, so I was very excited when I saw
that he had a new book coming out
and I was like, "I gotta getthis advanced reader copy."
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It has like so many things that I love
because it's a vampire novel.
And it's interesting because,
let me just read the synopsis to you guys
and you can tell me what you think.
- (Drew) Okay.
- (Nicole) "A diary written in 1912
by a Lutheran pastor isdiscovered within a wall.
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What it unveils is a slow massacre,
a chain of events that go back
to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow.
Told and transcribedinterviews by a Blackfeet
named Good Stab who shares the narrative
of his peculiar life over aseries of confessional visits."
Now, that synopsis saysnothing about vampires,
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but this particular Blackfeet
that is talking to thispastor is a vampire.
And he goes into great depthof how he became a vampire
and the things that he has done
over the course of thecouple hundred years of life
that he's lived.
And it is just haunting
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because, like, we know vampires,
we've got the Eastern European vampires
coming out of the wazoo,
but have we ever had anIndigenous vampire before?
- (Amanda) Not that I've heard of.
- (Nicole) And this Indigenous vampire
is not happy about the white man.
So it is really, really wonderful.
And I think as a movie or a show
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would just be fantastically beautiful.
So that's my first one.
- (Nicole) I'm interested.
- (Drew) I will do what Ithought I would never be the one
to do and say let's step awayfrom fantasy for a second.
(all laughing)
- (Nicole) No!
- (Drew) Just for a second'cause most of mine are,
but the one I want the mostis "Yellowface," R. F. Kuang.
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- (Nicole) Oh, okay.
- (Drew) I just think in the same vein
as like the "Apple Cider Vinegar,"
wellness guru show
that came out on Netflix recently,
their whole "Inventing Anna"bit a little bit before
would fit so well in that likegenre of limited release show
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where like you get this character
that you know from thestart is the problem
and all of the ridiculousthings that she does
to try and get out fromunder this massive problem
that she's gotten herselfinto with her lies
and stacking everythingon top of each other
and waiting for the last domino to fall.
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I think it would be so funto see portrayed like that.
For people who don't know what it is,
"Yellowface" is a book about an author
who is struggling to gether footing in the world
and is upset at the number,
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at what she sees as theamount of opportunities
that minorities or own voice speakers get.
So when her friend Athena dies
I think eating birthday cake or something,
this is in the first like two chapters,
I'm not spoiling anything.
She decides to, instead ofreport this death to the police,
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just go and steal hermanuscript for her next book.
Which is about like oneof the Chinese wars,
like this girl has beenbeen researching this book
for years and years,
and finish it on her own
and make her own tweaksand publish it as her own.
- (Nicole) Whoa.
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- (Drew) And this isthis little white girl
who has no tie to this story,
and it becomes this massivephenomenon of, you know,
how did you get the idea for this book?
What was your research process like?
What's your personal tie to this?
And she's just digging herselfin deeper, lie after lie,
because she can't say the truth.
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- (Nicole) Wow.
- (Drew) And it's such an interesting book
of like knowing that youare rooting against her
and kind of waiting for howhilarious the downfall is.
And I think that'd be done so well
in a short limited edition TV show.
- (Nicole) Nice. I love that.
All right, do we have any more?
(15:23):
I know we have more.
- (Killian) I have a 30-booklist from one author.
- (Nicole) A 30-book list.- (Drew) Do it.
- (Killian) I'm notgonna list all the books.
- (Drew) In order.
- (Killian) Absolutely not.
There's two different worlds, which world?
Tamora Pierce has beenone of my favorite authors
since I was in middle school.
And I have recently been looking
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at going back and rereading everything.
A lot of her books are things
that I fall asleep listening to,
I hear parts of them regularly.
But I wanna go back andactually read them through
and like fully process themto see if they stand up
because the first ones werewritten before I was born.
Like, this is a longstandingcareer of writing.
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But she's written basicallytwo main universes.
You have the Tortall Universeand the Emelan Universe
and they are some different vibes,
different takes on magic andfantasy and storytelling.
And I just want to be able
to be more immersed in thoseworlds than I already am
having read this plethoraof books about them.
(16:30):
So her first series was "TheSong of the Lioness Quartet"
with Alanna, the Lioness, whois training to be a knight,
but she has to disguiseherself as a boy to do it.
So she basically rebuilds herself
as her twin brother's twinbrother instead of twin sister.
And he goes off to study magic
and she goes to become a knight.
And it's her going through the training
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and process to become a knight
and then being a knightthroughout the quartet.
And it's so good.
It's one of the earliest books
that I know of that really did a good job
of portraying, like, whatpuberty is, like, for girls.
And, like, it talks about
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when she first startsbleeding and things like that.
And it's things that are really important
to have in children's books
that you didn't really see a lot of.
- (Amanda) Right.
- (Killian) And to see it in fantasy,
'cause it also gets left out of fantasy.
But then it went fromthat series into a series
about a girl who has magicto speak with animals.
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And you see callbacks to Alanna
and the characters from the first series.
And then it goes into another series
about another girl who'strained to be a knight,
but now she doesn't have to hide
the way Alanna did,
and her process,
and how that's different from Alanna
and how she's different from Alanna
because they're very different characters.
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And then there's a series
that is one of myfavorites by Tamora Pierce
is the "Daughter of the Lioness" series,
where Alanna's teenage daughter
is now stepping out into the world
and taking her own place in the world
in a way that her parentsdon't want her to be.
And so, there's another series
then calls back to anancestor of Alanna's husband
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and things like that.
It's a huge world that'sall interconnected
and you see cameos throughout it.
So I really just wanta longstanding TV show
that does all of that.
And I wanna see thenan Emelan one as well,
with this great,
the great takes on magicbeing innate versus studied,
and these four kids whohave this innate magic
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that wasn't recognized untilthey were just just shy
of being teenagers and howthat affects their lives.
And I'm just, just,again, it's high fantasy.
It's so expensive, it's so hard to do.
I get it, these havebeen around for a while,
someone just do it.
And I am not the only onewho has put out a call
to make Tamora Piercebooks into movies or books,
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I've seen conversations.
- (Nicole) I think the technology
is there to pull off someof these fantasy things now.
- (Killian) Absolutely.- (Nicole) Just saying.
It's not like it used to be. So yeah.
- (Killian) So yeah, thatis my plea number two
to the world of movies and TV.
Please just give me, honestly, in general,
more high fantasy TV and movies.
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- (Nicole) I love that.
- (Killian) Just what I want.
- (Nicole) The other two thingsthat I have are both fantasy
So, you know.
- (Amanda) I have a fantasyone, maybe I'll save it
or skip it because that is a common theme,
but one that is not,
because one of the other reasons
I wanna see somethingdone as a movie or TV show
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is that it's like somethingthat's really highly visual.
And this one is "PatternRecognition" by William Gibson
and he takes you throughLondon, Moscow, and Tokyo.
So I think that would bereally interesting visually.
But I think that it's aslightly different universe.
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It's like the universe that we know,
but, like, I know at one point I read
that it's as if September11th never happened.
So like there are world events
have unfolded slightly different.
So I think that you could build the world
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to be
visually really interesting.
And it could be sort of somewhere
in the recent past orrecent future depending.
Because of William Gibson'ssort of style of Sci-Fi,
I sort of see it as being this
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like "Blade Runner" type of thing.
Not where there's like high technology,
but, again, just likeEarth, but just different.
So anyway, I think thatsomeone who's brilliant
could do really cool things with it.
But the themes in it, Ithink are really applicable.
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This was written in the 1990s
and you have your main character
who is this woman who is highly-sensitive
to corporate logos and advertisements.
So she works as a consultant to be like,
"Is this a good logo?
Does this advertise and campaign work?"
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And her father is a spy.
So you get these impressions
that maybe someone's following her
and she's like sort ofin an underground world.
And where it intersects in a way
that's really was predictive
was the idea that marketing
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could be done in a guerilla type of way.
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Amanda) And marketing
could sort of change thezeitgeist of societies,
just how spycraft sort of could change
the course of world events.
- (Nicole) Okay.
(22:19):
- (Amanda) And this wasbefore influencer culture.
- (Nicole) Yeah.- (Amanda) And so now
when I look at it,
I'm like, "Oh, like, thisis very much predicting
influencer culture."- Wow, that's crazy.
- And they give examples of, like,
someone goes to bars strategically,
accidentally bumps intothe person next to them
(22:40):
and it was like, oh,strikes up a conversation,
"Have you tried this beer or something?"
So like this way of like,
we're gonna do directmarketing in a sort of
- (Nicole) Organic way.
- (Amanda) Organic and clandestine way.
- (Nicole) Yeah.
- (Amanda) Which is whatwe're experiencing a lot,
and influencer culture
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has sort of changed thezeitgeist of society
as well as like sort ofthe course of world events.
- (Drew) Oh, for sure.
- (Amanda) So I thinkthat if someone did this
and took it in a way that highlighted
the hugely influential ways
(23:21):
that marketing has on people in general,
I think it'd be super cool.
- (Nicole) That's really interesting.
- (Amanda) I recommend thebook though, obviously.
- (Nicole) Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
Another book that Iwould love to see on film
would be "Emily Wilde'sEncyclopaedia of Faeries"
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By Heather Fawcett.
This is a series of books.
There's three now.
And I absolutely fell inlove with these books.
They have like a slightromantic element to them.
But I think my favorite partis the character Emily Wilde.
She is kind of a frumpy,scholarly type of person.
(24:09):
She isn't the most, what'sthe word I'm looking for?
Like, some of the cultural norms
don't really affect her in the same way.
So she blurts things out at people
that maybe she shouldn't say,
but she happens to be the foremost expert
(24:29):
on the study of fairies.
So she is constantly writing a book
and that's kind of like thewhole gist around these books
is that this is thebook that she's writing
and they're done in kindof a journal sort of way.
So the first one is her doingher "Encyclopaedia of Faeries"
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and she goes on these crazyadventures with her dog Shadow,
who's not actually just aregular dog, he's something else.
- (Amanda) Ah, of course.
- (Nicole) But also she has this rival
who is Wendell Bambleby
who comes along withher, much to her chagrin,
and there are these reallycute sort of romantic things
(25:13):
that happen between this veryhandsome professor Bambleby
and this other professor
that knows the folk better than anybody,
but doesn't know people very well.
I think it'd be really cute.
- (Drew) Wendell Bandleby.
Is it Bambleby?
- (Nicole) Bambleby.
- (Drew) Is an incredible name.
- (Nicole) Isn't it great?- (Killian) Truly, yes.
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- (Drew) Another one that Iwould love to see is called,
"How You Say I Do" by Tal Bauer.
It is a romance.
So a guy who is going to aresort for his brother's wedding,
one for Caribbean islands,
is getting on the plane
(25:57):
and, you know, waiting inthe airport for his plane
and sees someone justsobbing into their whiskey
at the bar in the airport.
And everyone is giving him like,
the widest berth
and just letting him exist there.
And Wyatt instead is like,
"No, no, I'm gonna talk to this person,
see if they're okay."
(26:18):
They end up getting on the same flight.
He was just left byhis fiance at the altar
and is now going on his honeymoon solo
and is not having a good time with it.
- (Nicole) I guess not.
- (Drew) So the book separates itself
into really good sections.
It starts, you know, at the resort
(26:38):
and their sort of one week courtship
where neither of them aretreating it as real life
and then real life comes back into it.
One is from New York,the other is from Texas.
And they initially decide
they don't want anything to do with it,
but they can't seem to getthat person off their mind.
(27:01):
Romance ensues, of course,
but I just think the different areas
that the story takes place in,
the resort, Manhattan, a ranch in Texas.
- (Nicole) Sure.
- (Drew) Would be really cinematic and
interesting with each other.
It's such a good story and I need it.
(27:23):
I just need it in frontof my eyes in this moment.
- (Nicole) Awesome. I love that.
All right, does anyonehave to like have a third?
No?
I will share a third
just so that I can saythat we did three-ish.
- (Drew) Bet.
- (Nicole) Because we said three-ish.
(27:43):
I would like to see"Impossible Creatures."
It's a children's book byKatherine Rundell, on film,
because I can like picture
how beautiful everythingabout this book is.
It is a kids fiction book
about a boy named Christopher
(28:05):
who saves a drowning baby griffin.
Okay, so here we are, right?
Right from the get go,something fantastic happens
and it happens very close to this.
He's going to stay with hisgrandfather for the summer
and his grandfather keepssaying, "Don't go up the hill."
And you know what happens
(28:26):
when your grandfather tellsyou don't go up the hill,
somebody's going up the hill.
He went up the hill andthere's a lake there
and there's this babygriffin that's drowning.
And he had never seensomething so fantastic
in his entire life.
Hence the impossible creatures.
So he ends up basicallygoing on this adventure
(28:50):
into this other world through the lake.
He goes to this other place
where all of the fantasticimpossible creatures live.
So there's unicorns and dragons
and anything you could possibly think of
in this other place.
And he is helping the chosen one,
which is this scrappy little girl
(29:13):
that happens to be theowner of the griffin.
And everything about themagic of this place is dying
and nobody can figure out what's going on.
And somehow, Mal, the girl
is intricately tied into thehealth of this entire world.
So there's adventure, there'sa berserker, which I love.
(29:36):
Throw me all the berserkers of the world.
There is a woman who only sails the seas
and knows everything
about these very amazingaquatic creatures.
It just sounds like it wouldbe a treat for the eyes.
- (Killian) I have one more.
- (Nicole) You have one more?
(29:56):
- (Killian) Because Ineed Drew's take on this.
- (Nicole) All right, let's do it.
- (Killian) It just came into my mind
and I simply need to.- (Drew) I'm in.
- (Killian) "Love atSecond Sight" in the style
of a 2000s teen movie.
- (Drew) Immediately yes.
- (Killian) "Love at SecondSight" is about a boy
starting a sophomore year of high school
in a world where supernatural creatures
are just part of life.
(30:18):
There's like werewolves
and psychics and witches andall these different things,
- (Drew) And they all justgo to the school together.
- (Nicole) Of course, as they would.
- (Killian) But he is not supernatural.
And his parents are madthat he's going to school
with his best friend forthe first time in years,
'cause they got redistricted back
into the same district or the same school,
and his best friend is a witch.
(30:39):
- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Killian) So first day of school,
his best friend's like, "Hey,like, yes, this is great,
but I also have theseresponsibilities being a witch,
so I gotta deal with those.
So maybe you should alsomake some new friends too,"
which is just what you wannahear from your best friend.
And then he ends up caughtin the middle of this fight
when he kind of stormsaway from his friend
(30:59):
and gets knocked down
and has this vision of this girl
he doesn't know being killed.
And he's seeing this from the perspective
of the person killing her.
- (Nicole) Wow.- (Killian) And he realizes
he has this very rare type of supernatural
called the clairvoyant.
And now suddenly all ofthe supernatural factions
want him as an ally.
- (Nicole) Okay.
(31:20):
- (Killian) But it's like,okay, do you wanna be my friend?
Do you just want me toally with your faction?
All of this stuff.
And he also has thiswhole mystery to solve.
And I just think, like,
in the tradition ofearly 2000s teen movies,
it would be so good.
- (Nicole) Nice. I love that.
- (Killian) But I'm alsoobsessed with this book.
(31:40):
I messaged Drew screaming aboutit while I was reading it,
so that's why it needed to berun by Drew in this moment.
- (Drew) No, it wouldbe perfect for it too,
because the pacing of thebook is opening itself up
to be sectioned into Act1, Act 2, Act 3 really well
of like the discovery of the power,
(32:01):
the forming of the unlikely friend group
around which they're trying
to like amateur solve the mystery,
but also trying to integrate Cal, Cam?
- (Killian) Cam.- (Drew) Cam into the world.
And then Act 3 dealing withthe mystery all of a sudden.
It would set itself up real well for it.
(32:22):
- (Nicole) Awesome,that sounds super cool.
All right, everybody,thank you for listening
and we will see you next time.
Thank you for joining us for this episode
of "Distracted Librarians."
- (Drew) Many thanks to BCTVfor their support in recording,
editing, and releasing this podcast.
And to the friends of the library
for sponsoring closedcaptioning on every episode.
(32:43):
- (Killian) If you have anyquestions or suggestions,
feel free to reach out tous at distracted@btpl.org.
- (Amanda) Until then,keep those pages turning
and those screens lighting up,
we'll catch you in the next episode.
- (Emily) The views and opinions expressed
in "The Distracted Librarians" podcast
do not necessarily reflectthose of Bloomfield Township,
(33:05):
Bloomfield Township Public Library,
Bloomfield Community Television,
the Birmingham Area Cable Board,
or its producers or production staff.
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