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Episode 8: Let's Have a Flash Mob: Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn

Podcast |: Go Your Own YA
Publisher |: Carey and Marie
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Books,; Comedy,; Games & Hobbies,; Literature,; Young Adult
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Publication Date |: Nov 07, 2017
Episode Duration |: Unknown

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Girls Kiss! Flashmobs Happen! Adults Hate This One Hilarious Book About Addiction, The Internet, and Finding Yourself! Carey and Marie talk about Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn, seeing Very through her career as social media star, ESCAPE artist, and soul-searcher. Also, the girls get together in the end.

Very LeFreak: Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, Lefreak-id-9780375857584.aspx">Better World Books

Rachel Cohn: Website

Content Warnings:

General white girl exoticizing her POC classmates nonsense, slut-shaming, internalized homophobia, sexual molestation of a minor (not graphic, mentioned in passing), hospitalization, addiction treatment. Cohost Rie also talks about her inpatient experience a bunch!

Movies Referenced: Meatballs, The Apple, Wet Hot American Summer, But I'm a Cheerleader

The "David" video mentioned in-episode.

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole. Host Rie reviewed it with Danika of the Lesbrary a long time ago!

How to Make a Bunny Shadow Hand Puppet

Art Metrano

Actually, it was Improv Everywhere that did The MP3 Experiment, not Newmindspace

The Danzinger Award for Hilarious Kids Books

A Black Woman Created the “Me Too” Campaign Against Sexual Assault 10 Years Ago

We call back to our episodes on Chicks with Sticks and Born Confused! Catch up if you'd like!

Doll theory? Bees? Listen to Babysitter's Club Club if you dare to learn the secrets of the New (Babysitter's) World Order. Wake up, Sheeple are IN.

Readalikes

Marie: Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

Carey: Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes

What We're Reading

Marie: Pie in the Sky by Wendy Mass

Carey: You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  (CC Marie Macula, Carey Farrell 2017)

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