We Heart Television (and Also Books)
This week, Kim and Alice chat about the Victorian computer, an obsessive tennis coach, and how long we should hold onto those Beanie Babies.
This episode is sponsored by:
Disarmed: Unconventional Lessons from the World’s Only One-Armed Special Forces Sharpshooter by Izzy Ezagui
touchbase from episode 2
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
Broad Band by Claire L. Evans
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
New Releases
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O’Connell (4/10, Little Brown)
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous With American History by Yunte Huang (April 3 from Liveright)
You All Grow Up and Leave Me : A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss (April 10, William Morrow)
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska (April 3 from HMH)
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
On a Theme: Television
Rise on NBC, based on Drama High by Michael Sokolove
The Looming Tower on Hulu, based on The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2006)
Madam Secretary on CBS, The Secretary by Kim Ghattas
Deception on ABC, Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone
The Crown on Netflix, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith
The Frankenstein Chronicles on Netflix, Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay (2011)
Death, Dissection, and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey FitzHarris (Oct 2017)
Books We Want TV Adaptations Of
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette
The Scarlet Sisters by Myra McPherson
Becoming Ms Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton
Where the Water Goes by David Owen
