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Have you felt a distinct lack of Pushing Daisies in your media rotation? Are you guilty of looking for Magic in Everyday Places? Do you want a romance NOT like all the other YA romances? In this episode, Carey and Marie discuss under-the-radar gem We Won’t Feel a Thing by J.C. Lillis, touching on weird Americana, forbidden romance, scifi versus magical realism, and the inevitable outcome of all those weird self-improvement programs you’re advertised on Facebook: love. Or a mad scientist showing up on your door yelling about manic pixie dream lab assistants AND WHO DOESN’T WANT THAT.
We Won’t Feel a Thing: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Website, Goodreads
J.C. Lillis: Website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (Superhero M/M romance You First is out May 23, so why not add it on Goodreads?)
Content Notes
There’s not siblings, she’s the adopted kid of his mom’s college professor.
Heads up for dead parental figure and neglectful textual parents. Also a DEEPLY creepy dude and his creepy actions, up to attempted assault.
The Order of Oddfish (by friend of the podcast James Kennedy!)
Anastasia Krupnick series
Alice McKinley series
Barbie Made-to-Move Curvy Yoga Barbie
Readalikes
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Current Reads
The Love Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 7: I've Been Waiting for a Squirrel Like You by Ryan North Erica Henderson
Happy 2019, Wayfinders! January was a heck of a year, but we still want to celebrate some sunshine and self help and return to a favorite author. It’s going to get meta up in here, while we talk KonMari, the Unicorn Club, writerly obsessions, playing 12 Questions with our WIP, and self help writer gossip. In this episode
Content Notes
This is a book about the oeuvre of Francesca Lia Block, so everything present in her books is present here: parent death, grief, eating disorders, mental and physical illness, miscarriage, terrible boys and terrible men, rape culture, antisemitism. There’s also a long rumination on David Bowie and his influence on the author’s writing and art, so caveat lector.
Show Notes
Parasol Protectorate Fan Group
Francesca Lia Block’s 12 Questions to Help Structure Your Novel, around which the book itself is structured
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Best Babysitters Ever by Carolina Cala
Readalikes
Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey by Deena Metzger
Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Spirit by Susan G. Wooldridge
Current Reads
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
The Belladonna University series by Tansy Rayner Roberts
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Happy new year readers and listeners! Tonight we visit a grand fall and winter-y read with spooky Ouija parties, nerd girls uniting against the patriarchy, astronomy in abundance and, of course, the worst boy. (There’s a really excellent New Year’s Eve party in this book!) What dangers lurk when the neighbor asks us to build a time machine? Should we really read our sister’s journal? In this episode, there are several thousand words about a slumber party.
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Worldcat
Pamela Dean: Website, Twitter, Patreon
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Bras and Broomsticks: Goodreads, Worldcat, Indiebound, Author Website
Sarah Mlynowski: Website, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Wattpad, Facebook
Content Notes
Our first (and sadly not last) appearance of the Unfortunate Transphobia Bear—it’s a couple lines, but a couple lines that would do well to be edited out in 2018.
This is a book that gets REAL about relationships with step-parents, conflict between adults and kids, and kids seeing their parents as human for the first time. We appreciate it, good to know going in.
Forward March is here!
Love, loss, and the surprising aphrodisiacs of the band locker room. That’s what the Dulaney High marching band has in store for Meghan Riggins. Like her Gram, who’s been her biggest fan since that first trombone lesson, Meghan’s always loved making music. So marching band should be easy, right? Wrong. It’s hard enough staying upright during the halftime show, avoiding the worst of the upperclassmen, or remembering the difference between a cummerbund and a dickie. But then she falls for Jonah, an adorkable fellow trombone nerd who just happens to be her best friend’s brother. Meghan may need to rethink everything she knows about herself, in and out of band, with and without her family and friends, and in and out of love. Both witty and poignant, Forward March will have you laughing, swooning, and cheering from the stands.
Find Forward March by Carey Farrell at your favorite online bookseller!
Per our query in the podcast: Sarah Mlynowski has two sisters—she’s in between the two!—and Bras and Broomsticks takes a lot of inspiration from real life.
Betsy Bird comes up a lot in this episode. She’s our hero.
Read the-letter-comes-by-sara-fox.html">When the Letter Comes by Sarah Fox online for free!
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The Infamous Vibrating Nimbus 2000
Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love by MaryRose Wood
The 11:11 Wish by Kim Tomsic
The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman by Danielle Dulsky
What if This Were Enough? and How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky
Carey talked Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret on Unspoiled! Book Club
Thanks Podscure for always shouting us out!
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We’re back, minus a few cup sizes! (The opposite of a lot of YA trajectories, but such is life.) Discussion Alice, I Think by Susan Juby was super fun, especially since Carey and Rie had radically different stances…that shifted over the course of the episode. Just like a good mood ring. Oh, Canada, my Canada, did we mention the fashion in this one? The small-town snark? Oh, and the moose? Wait, that’s book three.
Alice, I Think: Goodreads
Susan Juby: Website
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Happy 30th Episode everybody! Our scrappy little episode enters the decade of wine, Netflix, and cats/dogs with a Hometown Read from Host Rie. Take the Staten Island Ferry and actually disembark for a tale of two ungrateful teenagers and the sweetest old man in the world. We talk high school shenanigans, kids these days, and assigned reading while lamenting the fate of the Pigman. Oops. Unless you had it as assigned reading.
The Pigman: Goodreads
Paul Zindel: Website
Content Notes
Oh boy. Terrible parents, elder abuse, grief, horrible 1960s zoos, casual and not-so-casual homophobia. Host Rie also rags on her hometown a bunch. It deserves it.
Show Notes
Tiger after getting mama back from the evil recording studio
The Pigman's Legacy by Paul Zindel
The Pigman and Me by Paul Zindel
Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on their Toes by Ernestine Gilbreth
Turn your cremains into a sparkly orb or a puppet but maybe not a pie
Rie's 8th grade curriculum: Zlata's Diary, Letters from Rivka, Behind Rebel Lines, Farewell to Manzanar
Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick
Chemistry by C.L. Lynch
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
Readalikes
Scarlet Epstein Hates it Here by Anna Breslaw
We Won't Feel a Thing by J.C. Lillis
Current Reads
Sitting on Saturn by Joe Beine
Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert
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Before Maureen Johnson was writing about supernatural serial killers in London, she was writing showtune-singing serial killers in...Amsterdam? Carey and Marie talk whimsical world-tripping adventures, slapstick comedy, terrible musicals and the boys that write them, and how, in fact, we would spend $1000 from a dead aunt. Does being an artist give you a license to be a butt? Find out within!
Content Notes
Grief, adults making bad decisions, teens making bad decisions, teens getting taken advantage of, sexual assault, internalized misogyny. In other words, 2005 YA in a book.
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Are you out there? Can you hear us? We kick off our Hometown Series with Carey's Baltimore read, How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford. A boy, a girl, and a bond over weirdos calling into a radio show to laugh, live, and ride a magic carpet over Ocean City while surviving some very harsh truths about growing up. We discuss the strangeness of big cities and small fandoms, as well as solving the public transit problem in Baltimore (see: title).
How to Say Goodbye in Robot: Goodreads
Natalie Standiford: Website (visit this, cause there's great background material on the book!)
Content Notes
Mental illness, mistreatment of the disabled, parental death, emotional abuser (parent/child), shitty teenage boys
Show Notes
Daniel Pinkwater (he has a podcast too!)
How to Say Goodbye in Robot 8tracks mix
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The Secret Tree by Natalie Standiford
Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford
The Only Girl in School by Natalie Standiford
The Secret Apartment by Natalie Fast
We collaborated with Fuse 8 n' Kate on Kay Thompson's Eloise, and it was super fun!
Foster of the Podcast Sweet Pea who found a forever home last week!
How Maryland's Enchanted Forest Got Its Own Storybook Ending
Lizard People's call-in episode
Readalikes
How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Current Reads
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choy
The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds by Diane Ackerman
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Somebody put a bra on the library dome! It's not a 90s comedy middle grade book; it's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. Join us for chat about art as protest, why girls should treat girls with respect, and what YA character we think will head the CIA.
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: Goodreads
E. Lockhart: website
Content Notes
This is a book that deals with internalized misogyny, textually, and gender essentialism. There's a lot of both. There are teen boys dressing femme as a joke, and a lot of humor circling around what genders have what configurations. It can be a heavy read. We would love to see a 10th anniversary edition with an intro from the author on how things have changed...and how they haven't.
Show Notes
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick (the Harriet the Spy essay is in this one!)
We did an episode on The Boyfriend List
Frankie Landau-Banks on neglected positives and imaginary neglected positives
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
You can get your own light up basset hound!
Readalikes
Persons of Consequence by K.D. Hume
Shrill by Lindy West
Current Reads
There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott
The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding
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Ostensibly this is an episode about the excellent Brigid Lowry and her excellent book, Juicy Writing. In real life, this is an episode about fatalism, childhood writing dreams, and the end of the world. Wayfinders, hold us to that poetry prompt!
Brigid Lowry: New Zealand Book Council , Interview at The Starfish
Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Things You Either Hate or Love
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Judy Blume's teaching a writing class!
Our episode on Cassandra Golds' book, The Museum of Mary Child
Readalikes
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail: A Book about Writing and Other Things by Jacqueline Jackson
Current Reads
The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process by Francesca Lia Block
The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin
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