Weekend Whats
What to Read: My wife Gina is among the world’s most voracious readers, often completing a book a day and somehow retaining all of it. Her fiction list is really good and really popular. There’s something for everyone. Check it out and share it with the bookworms in your life. The What List Best Fiction 2021.
+ What to Watch: Squid Game is getting all the hype, but a somewhat similar series called Alice in Borderland is excellent. Obsessed gamer Arisu suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive. (We’re watching this as a family with two teens and no one has complained yet.)
+ What to Pod: Investigative journalist Hunter Walker broke the story on the potential involvement of members of Congress in the Jan 6 insurrection. Here he talks with the excellent Joe Trippi about what he’s learned and why this story is far from over.