#Twilight is the most divisive book of all time ... but why? Morgan and Casey add their discourse to #TheDiscourse on #StephenieMeyer's polarizing vampire romance.

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Lolita Podcast by Jamie Laftus

"Forced Seduction": The Trope of Non-Consensual Romantic Fiction by Kayleigh Donaldson

♪ Lights up on #WutheringHeights, up at the break of day to chase the ghost of my dead lover away! ♪

Nothing says love like promising to rip out your boo's husband's heart out and drink his blood. Revisit the glory of the most toxic relationship in the universe in #EmilyBronte's classic romance, #WutheringHeights.

Nothing says love like promising to rip out your boo's husband's heart out and drink his blood. Revisit the glory of the most toxic relationship in the universe in #EmilyBronte's classic romance, #WutheringHeights.

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Quotes from contemporary reviews of Wuthering Heights

The main villain of #MadeleineLEngle's #AWrinkleinTime is a giant, disembodied #brain. #Spoilers?

On this episode, we go back to a classic from elementary school—#AWrinkleinTime by Madeleine L'Engle! Will we go mad for Madeleine's mad book this time around ... or will it just drive us mad?

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"The Power of Adolescent Anger: L'Engle's Meg Murry and Pratchett's Tiffany Aching" by Dorothy Bennett

#AWrinkleinTime #MadeleineLEngle #Meg #CharlesWallace #MrsWhatsit #MrsWho #MrsWhich

"Dead dogs eat no books." --#JohnSteinbeck, probably

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"The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon" by Sonya Freeman Loftis

#JohnSteinbeck #OfMiceAndMen #Lenny #George #Max

If you grew up in California, you read #JohnSteinbeck's #OfMiceAndMen. But was it actually any...good? Or should Steinbeck's dog, Max, have done a better job of eating the draft of the book?

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"The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon" by Sonya Freeman Loftis

#JohnSteinbeck #OfMiceAndMen #Lenny #George #Max

Is Howl a jerk? Or is he just misunderstood? Morgan and Casey debate this age-old questions asked of all #badboys. (Also, a preemptive apology to #DianaWynneJones for possibly the dumbest pun ever.)

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A delightful interview with Diana Wynne Jones

Wailing wizards and wily witches make wonderful company ... unless they're trying to eat your heart. We (re)visit the fantasy favorite that sparked a billion adolescent crushes and inspired the (not-so-favorite) #StudioGhibli film, #HowlsMovingCastle by #DianaWynneJones!