Is It Teen Enough For You Now

We discuss the classic 2012 Kiera Cass novel and greedily await the Netflix movie.

We are still dipping into some pre-Pandemic recordings I found hiding on my hard drive. In this 8 minutes of unfettered joy, Molly hypes book one of Shelby Mahurin's Serpent & Dove series.

We put out a few shorter episodes awhile ago where we would interview one member of the panel about a book they'd recently read and enjoyed. I forgot we had these, and then started listening to this one and remembered what it used to be like to sit in a room with all these people. We are having so much fun talking about a book Lindsey was clearly excited about. Here's a 10 minute glimpse into an old life, and a persuasive pitch to read The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus.

In this episode we discuss Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger. That is a true sentence written by a tired man. A man who derails this podcast partway through by talking about landline telephones -- a topic that even the elder Millennial co-hosts were baffled by -- but that I'm certain Gen Z'ers will eat up.

In this episode we chat about the (frankly excellent) book Furia.

Lindsey suggests Bend It Like Beckham.

Kim suggests Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang.

Molly suggests Running with Lions by Julian Winters, books by Matt de la Peña, What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez, and the Disney movie Lemonade Mouth.

Amy suggests There's Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon.

Kim suggests I'll Be The One by Lyla Lee.

Nathan suggests the track series starting with Ghost by Jason Reynolds, and Stand-Off by Andrew Smith.

Nate suggests Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston.

See Julien Miquel on Youtube for pronunciation.

In this episode we discuss selected titles from Scholastic's Wildfire series of teen romances from the early 1980s.

For our last episode of this turbulent year, what better title to discuss than Clap When You Land? After the end credits, stick around for some pretty uniformed takes on Aurora Burning (only Ca$h Money had read it at this point).

This was not intended to be released right before the election. We recorded it ages ago. Since we recorded, discussion of voter suppression has only grown in importance for this election. As the days have gone by it's reared its head in a plethora of ways we don't discuss here.

Stay safe. Make a plan. Vote.

Somehow I totally failed to release an episode in September. Whoops!

Here is an episode about Heavy Vinyl, the rad graphic novel by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva.

As with our previous episode, this one was recorded at a time of really strict quarantine. If we didn't give the individual stories enough consideration, we are sorry David Levithan--we love you; come on the show!