Episode 133 || Three Books and a Movie

Published: Aug. 24, 2017, 10 a.m.

b'We\'re hungry, so let\'s plan out a menu. This week, Chris and Annie have prepared a few "book flights" for you, and these are the tasting notes. We\'re also calling them "mini-syllabi" because books talk to each other, and it\'s the coolest thing. Also, a dyed-in-the-wool Slytherin. Annie\'s "Fear and Trembling" syllabus: +\\xa0Final Girls by Riley Sager + Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka + Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng +\\xa0Scream\\xa0 Chris\'s "A Space Odyssey" syllabus: + The Martian by Andy Weir +\\xa0The Wanderers by Meg Howrey +\\xa0The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber +\\xa0Gravity Annie\'s "Not Another Teen Movie" syllabus: + Dumplin\' by Julie Murphy + You\'ll Grow Out of It\\xa0by Jessi Klein +\\xa0Dare Me\\xa0by Megan Abbott + The DUFF Chris\'s "Kubelko Bondy" syllabus: +\\xa0The End We Start From by Megan Hunter +\\xa0The First Bad Man by Miranda July +\\xa0Spider-Woman by Dennis Hopeless\\xa0 +\\xa0The Babadook Annie\'s "Slightly Romantic" syllabus:+ Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace +\\xa0This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison +\\xa0The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison +\\xa0Dan in Real Life Chris\'s [bonus] "Cruise Ship" syllabus: + "A Supposedly Fun Thing I\'ll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace + "My Honeymoon, or A Supposedly Fun Thing I\'ll Never Do Again Either" by Tina Fey + "Our Perfect Summer" by David Sedaris Chris\'s "The Earth is Alive" syllabus: +\\xa0Pilgrim at Tinker Creek\\xa0by Annie Dillard +\\xa0Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry +\\xa0The Lord of the Rings\\xa0by J. R. R. Tolkien +\\xa0An Inconvenient Truth OR\\xa0Mad Max: Fury Road\\xa0OR\\xa0Waterworld Annie\'s "Campus Tour" syllabus: + Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld + Shadow of the Lions by Christopher Swann +\\xa0The Secret History by Donna Tartt +\\xa0Dead Poets Society OR\\xa0Liberal Arts Chris\'s\\xa0"Apollo and Dionysus" syllabus: +\\xa0The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietszche +\\xa0The Secret History by Donna Tartt +\\xa0Brave New World by Aldous Huxley +\\xa0Black Swan Annie\'s "Family Dysfunction" syllabus: +\\xa0The Nest by Cynthia D\'Aprix Sweeney +\\xa0Commonwealth by Ann Patchett +\\xa0Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny +\\xa0The Family Stone\\xa0 Learn more about Bookshelf Bucks on our store website.'