Go Your Own YA

The third episode of Spooky Month! Carey and Marie read Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan and never sleep again. Ghosts, possessions, boarding schools, neglected teenagers and mysterious (terrible) boys? A perfect Halloween read!

Carey and Marie discuss the classic collection of African American supernatural tales, The Dark-Thirty by Patricia McKissack. Chicken coop monsters and wise, loving Bigfoots, the horrors of slavery and oppression, and the inspiration for a lifetime studying folklore--all in one book! We share some ghost stories from our childhood and hometowns, and share readalikes and what we're currently reading to follow up on this amazing, award-winning book. In this episode, the 11:59 comes for us all.

It's Spooky Month! Carey and Marie kick things off with The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds. Within, all your creepy doll, Anglican allegory, talking bird, Regency Gothic and mysterious orphan needs. In this episode, you tell yourself it was just a dream, but the Society of Caged Birds tells us otherwise.

Show notes at: https://www.goyourownya.com/blog/2017/10/2/episode-3-just-another-creepy-doll-the-museum-of-mary-child-by-cassandra-golds

Carey and Marie take a trip back to early-oughts NYC to explore identity, music, photography, and THAT ONE BEST FRIEND. In Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier (now celebrating its 15th anniversary!) we meet Dimple, caught between identities, friends, passions, and the fact that her best friend is in love with the suitable boy her parents love. We discuss cultural appropriation, NYU, making art and how hard it was to pick just one quote. Not to mention, some greats oughts fashion

Show notes: https://www.goyourownya.com/blog/2017/8/21/episode-2-never-mind-the-bangra-born-confused-by-tanuja-desai-hidier

Our very first episode! Carey and Marie, your hosts, jump feet first into a magical Chicago full of friendship, yarn, serendipity and queer subtext. How much did we all love knitting? Is Chicago just that magical? And what are the parents of the Chicks with Sticks getting up to during the Sacred Sisterhood Sleepovers? All this and more in Episode 1.