Tara talks school strikes while Kris explains the clean versions of the Taylor Swift phenomena.

Bring it on, people. It’s sweater weather!

Official Recommendations 

From Kris: Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco and Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (2025)

Kris’s official recommendation this week is… wait. Kris has TWO official recommendations this week? (checks notes) Well, okay! 

Kris’s FIRST official recommendation is the children’s picture book Our Mothers' House, written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco. It’s a beautiful book about two women raising children together and their encounter with the one prejudiced family on their block. It’s also a banned book, which makes it even more important to shout out.

For Kris’s SECOND official recommendation, we have the 2025 documentary, Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, which tracks the late 90s women’s music festival. Kris has a lot of personal connections to this festival, and the documentary was both informative in aspects of the music industry that she couldn’t have understood at the time and nostalgic for all those formative memories. 

From Tara: A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann Rose

Tara’s official recommendation this week is the recently released sapphic Halloween romance, A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann Rose. Every year, for 70 days, the Halloween shop Pepper runs, The Dead of Night, appears in town and she gets to meet and engage with everyone who comes in. After that time? She disappears, and so does everyone’s memory of her. But everything changes after Pepper comes across a woman she can’t stand the thought of forgetting her. Tara thoroughly enjoyed this one and the big twist at the story's centre.

Works/People Discussed

• Jeopardy! (NBC)
• Survivor (CBS)
• Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (AMC)
• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC Three, BBC One)
• Hades 2 (Supergiant Games)
• Patricia Polacco appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (recommended in QR 064)
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (recommended in QR 057)

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