Seeing Read with Jim & Kelly

Ladies, are modern day options crippling? Do you spend way too much time deciding between which primary color to wear and enjoy the thrill of voting against your basic needs? Well do we have a future for you! Kelly puts all her eggs in Margaret Atwood's basket. This Canadian author wrote a long form poem that chills, maybe not thrills, but certainly instills a fear for our future autonomy. We...

May the month of May be ever in your favor! Odds are, if you’re a kid in a Seeing Read book/movie… you won’t make it out alive. That’s just fine in Panem where Jim and Kelly have found some high ground to stand on, weapons of choice in hand. Can the Hunger Games book take on its blockbuster movie twin in hand to hand combat? Can both book and movie win the games if they’re from the same District?...

If you’re a bird, I’m a bird! Unless you were a book first. Not that any of us will remember by the end of this.  Jim and Kelly are ready to prove that there’s nothing sexier than a story about the tragedy of aging. Grab a marble notebook, a colored pen and some Viagra cause it’s time to tackle the Notebook.  Nicholas Sparks found a way to our hearts and a healthy paycheck by way of the romance ge...

Happy Anniversary! Every marriage is hard work… can books and movies compromise or are they doomed to be like the Dunnes? Gillian Flynn served the world a twist to scare the boys for centuries to come while David Fincher delivered a thriller drenched in NPH’s blood. Yes, it’s Gone Girl. Jim and Kelly play a gendered treasure hunt for redeeming qualities in this best seller/blockbuster. It was a wi...

Your hosts Jim and Kelly tackle the not-so-classic novel and 2000s sexy film The Beach. Was the book or movie better? Who will eat the worm? Why are there so many intestines? What did Gen X do right? Join us for your monthly dose of cinematic spoilers and unqualified literary opinions. After all, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tilda Swinton’s passionate sex scene is guaranteed to scar you, so let us help y...

Welcome to SeeingRead! Where your hosts, Jim & Kelly, tackle the age old millennial question: was the book really better than the movie?! Enjoy being wrong!