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Episode 56 – Angels Watching Over Me
Out of the sadness cave and into the pediatric hospital, Renata has returned to join Kait and Eryn for the final book of Flashback Summer, Angels Watching Over Me by Lurlene McDaniel. We went back to a time before WebMD and The Fault in Our Stars, back when tweens had to cry over a romance between an English girl who doesn’t know she has cancer and an Amish boy who doesn’t know what candy bars are. We also learned about the dangers of spider bites. PSA: if you can’t find your Kleenex, maybe an angel stole it?
Readers advisory: Here.
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Footnotes: Everything Hurts: A Slurlene McDaniel Review
I Was Obsessed With YA Cancer Novels Long Before The Fault In Our Stars
Lifted Up By Angels plot summary
Until Angels Close My Eyes plot summary
Candy pairing: Eryn says buckeyes, Kait says vinegar candy, Renata says Milky Ways.
Coming up next: The Selection by Kiera Cass.
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Readers Advisory: Episode 56 – Angels Watching Over Me
Here’s what we suggest instead of/in addition to reading Angels Watching Over Me by Lurlene McDaniel. Listen to the podcast to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!
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Episode 52 – Animorphs #1
Kait, Renata, and their guest Priscilla (@Priscellie) read Animorphs #1: The Invasion by K. A. Applegate. As the first entry in our Flashback Summer, we revisited our favorite teens who can turn into animals, and also the one teen who is a bird. Renata and Priscilla reminisced fondly about reading the series as youths, while Kait found the entire premise of human children turning into animals to fight aliens to be questionable, for some reason. What better way to spend the 4th of July than by turning into a bald eagle and celebrating your independence from our Yeerk oppressors? (N/B.: if you are not from the USA, you may turn into a different bird of your choice.)
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: The Toast: The Animorphs
Scientific Questions About Animorphs
Scholastic To Give Animorphs New Life
The Time Renata Met Katherine Applegate
Candy pairing: Kait says Raven’s Revenge, Priscilla says gluten-free churros, Renata says Cinnabon.
Coming up next: Baby-Sitters Club #56: Keep Out, Claudia! by Ann M. Martin.
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Readers Advisory: Episode 52 – Animorphs #1
Here’s what we suggest instead of/in addition to reading Animorphs #1: The Invasion by K. A. Applegate. Listen to the podcast to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!
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Episode 51 – Lone Wolf
Kait, Renata, and their guests Malia and Meagan read Lone Wolf by the mistress of twist endings, Jodi Picoult! This episode starts with the revelation that “Picoult” is pronounced like “pekoe” and only gets more shocking from there. Actually, a lot of the twists aren’t really that surprising, but we are still reeling from the revelation that the man who left his family to live with a pack of wolves for 2 years cheated on his wife with a human woman, rather than a wolf like we thought. If you have internet access in your wolf den, listen to this episode now! (If not: learn how to decode the wolves’ complex language of howls if you want to survive.)
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Jodi Picoult name pronunciation
The Moth: Man and Beast by Alan Rabinowitz
Candy pairing: Kait says scavenged trail mix, Malia says Pop Rocks and soda, Meagan says assorted chocolates with mystery filling, Renata says movie theater popcorn.
Coming up next: Animorphs #1: The Invasion by K. A. Applegate.
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Episode 50 – X-Men 3: The Last Stand
It’s our 50th episode! We celebrated with our favorite thing: talking about X-Men with Caroline from Fantastic Fangirls and Panels. Unfortunately, this means we had to read the novelization of our least favorite X-Men movie: X-Men: The Last Stand by Chris Claremont. It’s a movie whose convoluted plot was not aided by having been novelized in the style of a very long 80s comic speech bubble. Hey–is Cyclops in this? Oh well, thanks for joining us for 50 episodes, bubs!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Rogue Gets In Trouble by Kate Beaton
Jesse Hamm’s “Tetched” Rogue series
X-Men: The Last Stand Rifftrax
Candy pairing: Caroline says Beemans gum, Kait says your favorite candy after a recipe change, Renata says a marshmallow roasted by the flames of the Phoenix force.
Coming up next: Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult.
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Readers Advisory: Episode 50 – X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Here’s what we suggest instead of/in addition to reading X-Men 3: The Last Stand movie novelization by Chris Claremont. Listen to the podcast to hear us talk about some of these titles in more depth!
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Episode 49 – X-Men: X-Cutioner’s Song
Kait, Renata, and their guest Megan (of Academic Inquiry Into Popular Culture) read X-Men: X-Cutioner’s Song by Scott Lobdell, Peter David & Fabian Nicieza, with art by Brandon Peterson, Jae Lee, Andy Kubert, & Greg Capullo. It’s an X-citing Peak 90s comics crossover event, featuring an overload of X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force, and X-tra tight Spandex. Come for the incomprehensible Apocolypse-tic time travel space clone adventures, stay because Renata’s Gambit voice has awakened something inside of you, cherie.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: X-Cutioner’s Song story arc
Setting Up Your First Pull List
Dramatic Reading Panels: (click to embiggen)
Candy pairing: Kait says Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza, Megan says Fruit by the Foot, Renata says French Toast Crunch.
Coming up next: X-Men 3: The Last Stand movie novelization by Chris Claremont.
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