Caitlin and Alan start reading “The Screaming Staircase” by Jonathan Stroud with Part One- Ghosts! We are sad that the King’s English has been changed in our North American versions. But we aren’t sensitive about it. Just angry. We love the world building, the word choices, and Lucy’s narrative voice. The jokes are good too.

Why is Fahrenheit a thing at all in America when Celsius is right there?

Kate Adams is an illustrator

What is first person perspective?

Unconscious gender bias in YA Literature

BEST JOKE: Alan “Oh Lockwood!” Caitlin “The Case File statement of Mrs Hope”

MOST PUNK ROCK: Caitlin “Stealing the necklace” Alan “Jumping off the roof”

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