101 - Setting As Character

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 7 a.m.

In episode 101, Gen and Jette talk about the settings that feel so alive they become an entire character in the novel \u2014 the haunted houses, the seaside towns, the cities that feel like living, breathing entities, we're here for all of it!
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\nShow Notes
\nMake sure to check out Gen's blog post, which inspired this episode.
\nWe, uh, talked about a lot of books. Find (most of) them listed below!
\nIn our next episode we'll be talking about Little Women the novel, as well as two of the film adaptations from 1994 and 2019

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\nBooks & Media Mentioned
\nMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
\nWilder Girls by Rory Power
\nAnnihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
\nShutter Island by Dennis Lehane
\nJurassic Park by Michael Crichton
\nThe Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
\nThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
\nIlluminae by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufmann
\nThe City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
\nAnother Country by James Baldwin
\nThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
\nTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
\nL.A. Confidential
\nThe Shining by Stephen King
\nPractical Magic by Alice Hoffman
\nBatman
\nSin City by Frank Miller
\nLong Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
\nThe Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Artemis by Andy Weir
\nHome Before Dark by Riley Sager
\nWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
\nThe Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
\nThe Sundown Motel by Simone St. James
\nHeartbreaker by Claudia Dey
\nAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
\nMy Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
\nSlade House by David Mitchell
\nRebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
\nClap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
\nThese Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
\nJaws by Peter Benchley
\nThe Dark Library by Cyrille Martinez
\nTravels with Charley by John Steinbeck
\nBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
\nWalden by Henry David Thoreau
\nDune by Frank Herbert

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