This season we continue to explore a wide variety of book genres and topics so you can expand your reading horizons and share more information with your library community. We are having fun with pop culture references in our genres, and looking at some different sources for book ideas. You can read all of our , and find links to our beverages and the books we chat about today. This week we are getting ready for the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Nicholas Cage stars in this. From IMDB “ begrudgingly accepts a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a billionaire super fan. When things take a wild turn, Nic is forced to become a version of some of his most iconic and beloved characters in order to extricate his wife and daughter from the fan who is a notorious drug lord.” Let’s celebrate this movie with a look at books that are social satires.  Good social satires use some basic writing tools to make the story both entertaining and share their message: irony, exaggeration, ridicule, and humor. These should be fun stories to read, or watch, with the good guys making their points and the bad guys getting their just punishment.

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