Ep. 28 - Kara Evans: A Book Lover's Double Feature

Our guest this week, Kara Evans, is a transplant to Louisville by way of New Jersey and Atlanta and was looking for a fun way to meet new people. She is a healthcare consultant specializing in technology but her hobbies have always included reading and movies. So she decided to create a book and movie club called Books Going to the Big Screen which can be found on the platform Meetup.com, a site with a plethora of different kinds of groups you can join in any geographical area.

Kara tells us the benefits and the frustrations of having Hollywood pick the book selections, why she needs crazy good research skills to keep up with the ongoing movie schedule, how their discussions in this club feel completely different than a regular bookclub when you are comparing and contrasting two different mediums, and how reading has always been her escape.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:
I'm Down by Mishna Wolff
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
The Lady From the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

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