Today, Fable and the Verbivore continue our conversation with our reader friend Sara Laverty. But this time, we talk about life, books, movies and tv shows, and how we’re all doing.

This was an informal conversation that took place after wrapping up the Animal Dreams book club recording. We’d kept recording through it but hadn’t originally planned to share it. However, we enjoyed it so much that we thought it might connect with others as well.

In this episode, we talk about a lot of different things: the books and movies we’re enjoying, physics and time travel, the broad landscape of science fiction, how creativity has looked for us this year, and being a friend/support/keeper to yourself during life’s hard times.

We hope you enjoy this episode! Keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

Notes:

Sara referenced a podcast where she got the recommendation for the book “The Push”, that podcast is called “The Podcast with Know and Jamie”. Here is a link to their green light book recs: https://knoxandjamie.com/green-lights/books/

The Verbivore referenced a quote by author Shannon Hale. Here is that quote:

• “I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

Fable mentions the Shroedinger’s box thought experiment. Here is a brief description: https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/07/30/what-did-schrodingers-cat-experiment-prove/

The Verbivore talks about discovering an anime writer and director that makes some visually stunning and wonderfully written films. That writer is Makoto Shinkai and the films are Your Name and Weathering With You.

Books Mentioned:

• The Push: A Novel by Ashley Audrain

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, Book 1) by C. S. Lewis

• Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Book 2) by C. S. Lewis

• Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch

• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Maltese Flacon by Dashiell Hammett

• Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy by Kevin Kwan

Movies Mentioned:

• Tenet - Directed by Christopher Nolan

• Inception - Directed by Christopher Nolan

• Back to the Future - Directed by Robert Zemeckis

• Sliding Doors - Directed by Peter Howitt

• Your Name - Directed by Makoto Shinkai

• Crazy Rich Asians - Directed by Jon M. Chu

• Jumanji: The Next Level - Direct by Jake Kasdan

• Ocean’s 9 - Directed by Gary Ross

TV Shows Mentioned:

• The Last Man on Earth

Music from: https://filmmusic.io
’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)