Age Inappropriate: A Podcast for Book Nerds

If you've ever wanted to re-live your summer before 7th grade, complete with bras, first kisses, and genuine lucite, have we got an episode for you. We're reading Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice in Rapture, Sort of and it is excellent. Served with a side of reproductive justice talk, cause, well...

Next Up: Lois Duncan's Stranger with My Face

Content Note

Disordered eating, death of mothers

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

If it's Thursday, it must be Ellen Leroe's Have a Heart, Cupid Delaney. We learn how hard it is to be funny about a book that just ... isn't good. But end with high school valentines--what could be better?!

Next up: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice in Rapture, Sort of

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This book puts us in a position to joke about ex-gay therapy.

We cure Karen of her status of American Monster as she finally reads Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. She clearly had some facts wrong.

Next up: Something lighter with Have a Heart, Cupid Delany by Ellen Leroe.

Content Notes:

Racism, violence, Around 49:00/50:00 the word is said in reference to a book title.

Bonus links: Layla Saad's Me and White Supremacy, the workbook is available at the link.

https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/

This week--Monica Furlong's Juniper, the prequel to Wise Child. So many owls and fiber and witchery!

Next up will be Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Karen is very concerned about bird safety here.

Happy New Year! And Happy Birthday to us! We're kicking off Season 2 with Danielle Steel's No Greater Love, although there is no love lost here.

Next up will be Monica Furlong's Juniper.

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Sexual violence

Happy Thanksgiving, good listener!

In our season finale we serve you a cornucopia of conversation around Danielle Steel's Jewels. You'll have enough leftovers to carry you through to season two--coming January 2019!

Thank you for a great year. And get up on y'alls' goats!

Next season:

Danielle Steel's No Greater Love

Standard Content note...

First go vote. Vote.org has lots of information.

We recorded this on the evening of the latest SCOTUS confirmation. It gets a little dark.

But next up a Danielle Steele double header! Jewels and No Greater Love

Content Note:

VC Andrews, Politics, Catharine MacKinnon

This is an excellent time to start reading some ghost stories! And we're bringing you Mary Downing Hahn's Wait Til Helen Comes: A Ghost Story to get the Halloween spirit(s) going!

We talk poor parenting choices, psychopathic children, gas versus electric stoves. In general, we're remarkably on topic!

Next up: Heaven by V.C. Andrews

Content Note:

Mental health, death of parents

Happy 30th Anniversary, Matilda!

Let's all just lean in to the goodness that is Roald Dahl's Matilda--even if she waited until THREE to learn to read. It's just delightful.

NEXT up is Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn for real this time.

Hello mystery lovers!

This episode we dive into the wonderful world of Nancy Drew, Girl Detective, with Carolyn Keene's The Clue of the Dancing Puppet (Nancy Drew #39).

Wonder with us about the number of concussions a girl detective can survive, aluminum batteries, and the glamorous world of police electricians.

Next up: Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn