Judging Book Covers

Content warning for police brutality discussion. 

This week Meghan and Stephanie invite Elle back to discuss one of the best books of 2017: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. The movie comes out in October, so it seemed like a good time to read the book first! 

We discuss what Tumblr is, the importance of teaching this book, and how amazing Angie Thomas is at weaving the neighborhood and culture into this story about police brutality. Really, we just gush about this book and how amazing it is. 

Book Drink: Ice kool-aid cups

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Stephanie and Meghan welcome back Liz Babish to discuss the satirical The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie! We discuss how this book confirmed Meghan hates a certain kind of mom character (while still loving a book), squirrels, engagements, and how complex families can be! 

Book Drink: Gin and tonic with campari floating

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This week Stephanie and Meghan are joined by James Anderson of Unabashedly Obsessed Podcast! He brought us one of the shortest yet densest book we have ever read: A Mercy by Toni Morrison!

Meghan works in Brooklyn 99, we ponder if this is Angel/Buffy fanfic, and set our English class paper topics! 

If you listen to We'll Get It Right Next Year and want to stay pure, or if you're named Ryan Lynch, please skip from 1.31.30 to 1.36.00! 

Book Drink: Water

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Life is stressful and busy, so Stephanie and Meghan take it slow and calm in this host-only episode! We read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, one of 2018's hottest YA books. We discuss all the action in the book, the way the author takes YA tropes and gives us a fresh take, and even how much we love all the characters. 

 CW: This book has a lot of violence, some discussion of rape, and horrific death scenes. 

Book Drink: Dark and Stormy (Stephanie) and Coffee (Meghan) 

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 This week we are joined by A Handbook for Handbook for Mortals' newest cohost, Elle Riccardi! We discuss the now 10 years old The Host by Stephenie Meyers. Is it a sci-fi novel? Is it a romance? Let's find out! 

We discuss how weird the brother and sister dynamic is, defend Stephenie Meyers legacy a bit, and try to decide which of the boys we are rooting for. 

Book Drink: Mini Coronas 

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In preparation for Solo, Stephanie and Meghan invite Olivia James of Super Serious Social Justice Podcast to come on and discuss Bloodline by Claudia Gray!

We briefly debate if we want to just talk about Donald Glover and adult juice boxes, how our old Star Wars didn't have politics why does it now?? And how awesome Senator Leia is as the main character. 

Book Drink: A good ole glass of milk

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Kanye, thank you for setting up this week's episode so well for us!! Your [nonexistent] check is in the mail. 

Content Warning: Slavery, Rape, and everything that comes with both and MILD SPOILERS FOR BLACK PANTHER.

This week Stephanie and Meghan are joined by Sarah Iff Decker to discuss Kindred by Octavia Butler! This kicks off the first of a few Sci-Fi novels we will be covering, and it adds a wonderful, horrific historical twist. 

We discuss how we are glad that Dana isn't a manic pixie dream girl, we look at her husband Kevin through 2018 lenses and maybe don't like him as much as we are supposed to, and how Rufus's ideals of "love" and what he "deserves" is still way too present in 2018. 

Book Drink: Mint Julep

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This week Stephanie and Meghan are joined by Amy Pascale of Ladies Love Paul Rudd to discuss one of America's favorite co-stars: Judy Greer! We read her 2014 memoir I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star. We discussed the book in physical and audio form, judgemental animals, terrible jobs, and many other advice tidbits we got from her memoirs! 

Book Drink: Snapple Spiked Tea Vodka

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Judging Book Covers Podcast has hit one year! To celebrate, we brought back Tim Lowe from the first two episodes to discuss another Scott Sigler book: Earthcore!

While this book is originally from 2005, we are discussing the re-written version which came out in ebook/audiobook in 2017 but was just released in paperback. Spoilers are abundant this episode (like in most!) 

Stephanie compares characters to their Harry Potter counterparts, Meghan accidentally kills Tim, and we realize that the true meaning of the podcast is to get Chris to read. There is also a long debate as to whether or not a character lives and thank god we don't have to wait 13 years for the sequel! Tim also admits on air that he will read Harry Potter FINALLY. 

Book Drink: Whiskey (because everyone drinks whiskey) 

We also discuss Alex's Clearing out the Backlog, so if you are interested in seeing his journey through comic book trades, check this out!

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It isn't an April Fool's trick: there are two Judging Book Cover's episodes this week! Really, we are just celebrating for weeks that it's the podcast's year anniversary. 

While reading Pet Sematary, Stephanie and Chris happened to luck out and find a showing of the movie on the screen near them! They discuss their early memories of the movie, how it felt to see the movie in theatres, and some differences from the book to movie! 

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