Episode 10 - Weird Does Not Translate to Screen with Rachel Rolland

On this episode, Rachel Rolland, a hobby-enthusiast, discusses her love for weird books, including two authors with a decently large backlist that I’ve never heard of. We discuss how a book about accounting can help investigate the way we see the world, how some books just shouldn’t be adapted to screen, and her love for the bookstores where she worked. 

 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

The Nix by Nathan Hill 

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall 

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell 

 

Books Highlighted by Rachel: 

Milkman by Anna Burns

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 

A Song of Ice & Fire by George R.R. Martin 

Animal Farm by George Orwell 

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

Keeping the House by Ellen Baker 

13 ½ Lives of Captain Blue Bear by Walter Moers 

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers 

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris 

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White

 

Other Books Mentioned in the Episode:

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina 

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde 

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde 

Jonathan Strange & MR Norrell by Susanna Clarke 

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 

Dune by Frank Herbert 

Grant by Ron Chernow 

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd 

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris