Sharifah and Jenn discuss Christmas dragons, exciting adaptation news, weird trends in pseudonyms, and their most anticipated reads of 2019.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Similars by Rebecca Hanover, and Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet.

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News Discussed

‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Gets Order For 16 More Episodes From Netflix.

Christmas dragons neighborhood fight!

Stranger Things Season 3 Teaser Teases Episode Titles And An Air Date(and we learned nothing new)

Runaways is back on Hulu! (And, correct, Season 2 has been released simultaneously, so marathon-watching is easy.)

Books Discussed

Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford (Jackson Ford is a pseudonym for a critically acclaimed science fiction author.)

FKA USA by Reed King (Reed King is the pseudonym of a New York Times bestselling author and TV writer.)

The Bird King by G Willow Wilson (March 12)

Unraveling by Karen Lord (June 4)

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (March 19)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes (June 4); listen to the song here

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (Mar 5)The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad (May 14)

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Feb 12)

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (Feb 19) by Various, translated by Ken Liu

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