#drama book shop

[nonesuchrecords]

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Drama Book Shop in New York City for the Days of Wine and Roses CD signing yesterday—and to Brian d'Arcy James, Kelli O'Hara, and Adam Guettel for signing all those CDs! You can hear the album here.

[sparrowlucero]

this is the iconic dinosaur horror jurassic park wishes it was

[podcast-bookclub]

August Coffee Shop Chats Q's + Announcement!

I'm absolutely terrible at remembering to update CSC news over here, so the best place to keep up with the show is in our Discord, but hello! Question call for the August interviews — we'll be chatting with Cry MJ of @twigsandhearts + William Wellman of @hellofromthehallowoods.

You can send in questions here/on anon via our askbox or drop them in the coffee shop Discord channel. Ask away!

Re: Updates, CSC now has an editor! that isn't me lmao! Everyone say hi to Azazel, who doesn't have a Tumblr but does have a portfolio you can check out, who will be helping out on the show. I'm looking forward to working with him on the show, and hope y'all will enjoy hearing his work too!

[pardonmydelays]

come on now...

[covenofthearticulate]

Me, making my entire vacation about vampires when i’m supposed to be shopping for real books at a historic nyc book store?? More likely than you think!

[redsamuraiii]

Samurai Gourmet / Mangaban Nobushi no Gurume (Ep 6)

The simple pleasures in life. Book shopping and cafe hopping. 

Edited : the cafe is “Kissa Nitto”

[lovecommajaime]

i’ve been too unormal lately

[plainlo-inthemorning]

Lin-Manuel Miranda in The Guardian, 2019

[majicmarker]

i am “no plot, just vibes”-ing my way thru life

[wellesleybooks]

Booksellers On Vacation

When Jerry visited New York City he decided that The Drama Book Shop is his new favorite place.

[weedle-testaburger]

shoutout to the lady at the charity shop who saw the doctor who audio drama i was buying and said ‘oh it’s old thingy off whatsisname!’ because i’m going to have to call peter davison that forever from now on

[grimnirsgreeaat]

VANDER COFFEE SHOP AU WITH HIS TWO REBELLIOUS DAUGHTERS

Silco looks like a rich white old man who comes from old money and owns a yacht and Vander look he runs a coffee shop in a gentrified neighborhood

[podcast-bookclub]

Audio drama creators!

I have a new project in the works over in the Discord, and would love to have y'all involved!

As you might know, I started an interview podcast after starting the book club (which has been so much fun) but am looking to add a new event to the server to further community engagement, and get the words out about all of your wonderful shows!

So, I'm putting together a list of podcasts, then every once in awhile we'll randomly select one of these shows and listen to the pilot episode during a server-wide event.

As I'm sure your shows are your pride and joy, we'll be inviting the creator(s) along with whatever cast and crew might want to join in to hang out with us; you'd have the floor to talk about the episode, any funny behind-the-scenes, or whatever else really strikes your fancy alongside the episode listen!

If you would be interested in participating, shoot me a message over at @smallsies, or email podbookclub@gmail.com. Happy listening!

[pardonmydelays]

hoax anon is also a hamiliton fan so this is exciting! rip eliza you would have loved hoax :)

hello??? idk who you are but i'm going to call you hoaxmilton anon from now on 🤍

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[carnivalofglee]

I speak words and share them. But I also write them down. And you can get those too. Check out the website for some of the places you can buy my books. Thanks!

carnivalofgleecreations.com