Jan 8, 2016
*** Note: The audio in this episode is a little wonky but we enjoyed the discussion so much we thought you wouldn't mind.
We start 2016 by reflecting on the best things we read and saw in 2015. That's how you start a new year, right? By looking backwards?
You can listen in to hear what Steph and Candice thought their best books, movies and books turned movies were in 2015. Or you can read this list and spoil the surprise.
Books:
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch by Daniel Kraus
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Books Turned Movies:
Martian by Andy Weir
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner
Movies:
Inside Out (trailer)
Mad Max: Fury Road (auto plays trailer)
Spy (trailer)
Ex Machina (trailer)
Happening around the Bookshelf, eBar and Cinema:
Brooklyn (trailer) playing every day between January 8 through January 31
The Matrix (trailer) is the Guelph Movie Club selection for January 28
Boardgame Night returns on January 13
Democamp returns on January 20
That's My Drag returns on January 29
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