Greetings, greetings, world! Welcome to the 'Read, Watch, or DNF' podcast, your ultimate destination for all things books, booze, and unforgettable adaptations. We're your hosts, the witty Mel B. and the fabulous Jackie D. 🎙️📚🎬
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In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we take a broomstick ride to Long Island to unravel the not-so-practical, not-so-magical misfortunes of a family plagued by 200+ years of generational trauma. Join us as we dive into Alice Hoffman's "Practical Magic" and its equally enchanting 1998 screen adaptation. Let's separate fact from fiction, shall we? ✨🧙♀️
In this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we embark on an extraterrestrial adventure to a lighthouse through a plasma wall with a squad of trigger-happy ladies. Why? Because we bumped uglies with our husband's body snatcher! Join us as we delve into Jeff VanderMeer's eco-horror masterpiece, "Annihilation," and its equally mind-bending 2018 film adaptation.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we kick-off spooky month by booking a bed and breakfast stay in a classic story with a classic trope in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and the 2018 Netflix adaptation of the same name.And we ask the question, did the decision to adapt the story into a family dynamic drive the success of this series, or do people just love haunted houses?Also, can we take a moment to just respect the savagery of Shirley Jackson to write queer characters into her work in the 1950s!
WE ARE BACK!!!On this week's episode of Read, Watch, or DNF we take on a classic, but not the archaic kind, the 1973 kind and we travel the country of Florin in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure and the movie simply titled The Princess Bride.
On this week’s episode of Read, Watch, or DNF, we travel back in time with My Chemical Romance and then back agaIn to save the world (or maybe just that city, we don’t actually know) from an apocalypse that was cause by a glass eye?? In Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba’s Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Volume and the 2019 Netflix original adaption,