Sometimes the best part of finishing a book is figuring out what to watch next.

In this episode of I’d Watch That, we're starting with Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady, a rom-com featuring rival bookstore managers, very different reading tastes, and the complications of finding someone much easier to like online than in person.

But instead of simply talking about the book, we're asking a different question: What movies would we pair with it?

Michelle, Laura, and Katya each pulled out different themes from Josie and Ryan’s story and brought movies they think belong beside it, from workplace ambition and proving yourself to competitive banter, unexpected connections, and feelings that refuse to stick to the plan.

Michelle brings Set It Up, Laura makes her case for How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Ugly Truth, and Katya takes us back to Working Girl.

Some connections are obvious. Some require a little explaining.

Sometimes we watch a movie and think, “I'd read that.” Sometimes we finish a book and think, “I'd watch that.”

Welcome to Chapter One, Scene One, where books and movies meet and we figure out what stories belong together.

Join Michelle, Laura, and Katya as we pull apart the themes, tropes, characters, and ideas behind the stories we're reading and watching, then pair them with something from the other side of the page or screen.

And in our What Would _____ Read? episodes, Michelle and Laura do a little digging into the actors behind the movies, from what they've actually read to the roles they've played, to answer one completely unsolicited question: What book do we think they'd love?

Expect book recommendations, movie recommendations, questionable connections we'll attempt to defend, occasional disagreements, and a TBR and watchlist that will probably be longer by the time we're finished.

Because around here, the question isn't just “Was the book better?”

It's “What should we read—or watch—next?”

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Same research. Same actress. Very different vibes.

In our first What Would _____ Read? episode, Michelle and Laura are putting Parker Posey's imaginary TBR to the test.

We dug into books Parker has actually talked about reading, the writers and ideas she's drawn to, her own wonderfully unconventional memoir, and a career filled with smart, eccentric, ambitious, complicated—and occasionally unhinged—women. Then we each came to the microphone with three books we think belong on her shelf.

Michelle went vintage, eccentric, Southern Gothic, and old-Hollywood adjacent with The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

Laura took the same research in a much more contemporary direction with The Husbands by Holly Gramazio, Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino, and Strangers by Belle Burden.

Six books. Two completely different interpretations of Parker Posey. And somehow...they both make sense.

So which version of Parker's bookshelf would you choose?

Welcome to What Would _____ Read?, a Chapter One, Scene One series where Michelle and Laura build completely unsolicited book recommendations for actors from the movies we've been watching.

But we're not picking books based on vibes alone.

We dig into what they've actually read, the books and writers they've talked about, their interests, interviews, and even the characters they've chosen to play. Then we each bring our picks to the microphone and make the case for why that book belongs on their TBR.

Same research. Different readers. And sometimes very different books.

Because they didn't ask us what they should read next...

but we're going to tell them anyway.

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Sometimes the best part of finishing a movie is figuring out what to read next.

In this episode of I’d Read That, we're starting with You've Got Mail—the 1998 rom-com that gave us bookstores, AOL, enemies-to-lovers, anonymous correspondence, and the eternal battle between the charming little indie shop and the giant corporate bookstore.

But instead of simply talking about the movie, we're asking a different question: What books would we pair with it?

Michelle, Laura, and Katya each pulled out different themes from You've Got Mail and brought books they think belong beside it—from falling for someone through their words to small-business communities, reinvention, rivalry, and, of course, enemies-to-lovers.

Some connections are obvious. Some require a little explaining. And apparently some of us interpreted “bring a book” as “bring half your TBR.”

Sometimes we watch a movie and think, “I'd read that.” Sometimes we finish a book and think, “I'd watch that.”

Welcome to Chapter One, Scene One, where books and movies meet—and we figure out what stories belong together.

Join Michelle, Laura, and Katya as we pull apart the themes, tropes, characters, and ideas behind the stories we're reading and watching, then pair them with something from the other side of the page or screen.

And in our What Would _____ Read? episodes, Michelle and Laura do a little digging into the actors behind the movies—from what they've actually read to the roles they've played—to answer one completely unsolicited question: What book do we think they'd love?

Expect book recommendations, movie recommendations, questionable connections we'll attempt to defend, occasional disagreements, and a TBR and watchlist that will probably be longer by the time we're finished.

Because around here, the question isn't just “Was the book better?”

It's “What should we read—or watch—next?”

🎧 New episodes of Chapter One, Scene One

Follow along wherever you listen to podcasts.

📚 Find us online:

Instagram & TikTok: @chapteronesceneone

Website: chapteronesceneone.com

⚠️ Spoiler Warning: We discuss the books, movies, and shows featured in each episode in detail, so spoilers are always possible.