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