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

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. 

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

Lizabeth Zindel

The Vanderbilt Tomb

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

We love you Podscure!

Scarlet Epstein Hates it Here by Anna Breslaw

We Won't Feel a Thing by J.C. Lillis

Sitting on Saturn by Joe Beine

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert