Michael Calore: very good. Katie?
Katie Drummond: My suggestions are very specific and very strange. This is a 2003 movie What a girl wantsstarring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth.
Michael Calore: Wow.
Katie Drummond: I watched this movie in high school where I cheated on the math exam. sorry. For some reason, only the memories of cheating on my high school math exam made me laugh and then I re-watched it with my daughter this weekend and it was so terrible, so ridiculous and awesome. Colin Firth is a baby. Amanda Bynes is great and I wish her all the best. If you want to disconnect your brain and learn about a story about a 17-year-old girl going to England to meet with her father she never knew, it’s a very funny, stupid movie.
Michael Calore: Wow.
Lauren Goode: Wow.
Katie Drummond: Thanks. Really good.
Lauren Goode: I can’t decide whether you say it’s good or bad.
Katie Drummond: Both are. Do you know what I mean?
Lauren Goode: This is some combination of the two.
Katie Drummond: Too bad. She fell in love with a bad boy with a motorcycle, but also happened to be the Golden Heart of singing in a band that performed in the UK Parliament, so he always happened to be. His hair has sharp hair. Do you still remember 2003? All guys have gel, sharp hair.
Lauren Goode: Yes, I still remember that. The movies of the early 2000s, boys, they are not of good age.
Katie Drummond: However, this aging like a glass of wine.
Michael Calore: That’s great.
Katie Drummond: Very good.
Lauren Goode: it’s great.
Katie Drummond: Mike, what do you suggest?
Lauren Goode: Yes.
Michael Calore: Can I be the exact opposite?
Katie Drummond: Please, someone. Yes.
Michael Calore: I’m going to literature.
Katie Drummond: OK
Michael Calore: I will recommend a novel I have read recently and it shocked me to the core of my life. This is the work of Elena Ferrante, known as The day of giving up. This is a novel written in Italian, translated into English and many other languages by the great pseudo-novelist Elena Ferrante. It’s about a woman who wakes up one day and finds out that her husband is leaving her, she doesn’t know why, she doesn’t know where he is going or who he is going with, but he just disappears from her life, she goes through. She accidentally locked herself in the apartment. She has two children now suddenly want to take care of, but somehow ignores her –
Katie Drummond: This is so scary.
Michael Calore: But that’s what it’s written really well. This is a very heavy book. It’s rough, it’s really sketchy in terms of subject, but the writing is simply incredible, and it’s not a long book, so you don’t have to sit down to a large extent and suffer. I won’t spoil anything, but I’ll say there are some solutions to it. This is not a straightforward hell. Indeed, it’s a lovely observation of how humans deal with grief and how humans deal with crises, and I really like it.
