Throwback Bookstack

What's that? Is that the sound of two mimosa-drunk 30-something women emerging from the silence? Kelly and Emily are back after a bit of a delay (it's been a weird summer, y'all) and this week, they're here to talk to you about CATS. Yes, cats. More specifically, a cat named Cat. Because Kelly loves cats, and wants everyone else to love cats, too. This week, they read  Emily Cheney Neville's 1963 book about a boy just livin' his best life in New York and hanging out with his cat. It's riveting, we swear!

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Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

Next Episode: "The Golden Compass"

We're back! After a tragic, mimosa-related death for Kelly's laptop (RIP old friend), a brief period of mourning and gaining a new computer was needed. But now Kelly and Emily are not only back, they've got a guest! Their friend(?) Alex joins them this week to discuss the classic kid's tale of alien abduction, Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is an Alien". It's time to talk about hot substitutes, out-of-place casual misogyny, and survival strategies for not being abducted by extraterrestrial teachers. Do YOU know how to stay off their list? Neither do your podcast hosts.

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Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

Next episode: "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Are you feeling a little too happy? You know the weekend is coming, so you've got a spring in your step? Don't worry, we're here to weigh you down with death, starvation, and the unbearable weight of family financial ruin in Lawrence Yep's "The Serpent's Children". But there's also fun, snarky humor? ...It's complicated. Emily and Kelly dive into a world with strong, fascinating characters struggling to survive in a world that just gets a little bit Too Real.

Music: "Hearbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

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Next time: Bruce Coville's "My Teacher Is An Alien"

We must! We must! We must... read Judy Blume's classic tale, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret". Kelly and Emily read one of the absolute classics of puberty as they discuss Margaret's story about growing up and growing into who you are. It's time to chat about childhood, so curl up with some hot cocoa and a warm blanket and join the conversation about awkward childhood moments and terrible names for sanitary product companies.

Twitter: @ThrowbackBSPod

Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

Next up - we'll be reading Laurence Yep's "The Serpent's Children"

Kelly and Emily have a rat problem on the podcast - and that problem is that they've spent so much of their lives not considering the implications and cultural evolution of a large-scale society of super-powered, semi-immortal science rats.

This week, Emily and Kelly curl up with the furry folk from Robert C. O'Brien's "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH". It's time to dive deep into the questions of cultural isolation, the changing ethics of literary narratives on animal experimentation, and that time that Emily made friends with a subway rat. Also: apparently the rats had magic powers in the movie? It's a wild world out there.

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Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

Get ready for a wild week, everyone. Action! Adventure! Detectives! Kidnapping! Blue genetically-engineered monkeys! A younger brother who acts his age! This week, Kelly and Emily read Nancy Farmer's Newbery Honor-winning "The Ear, the Eye and the Arm". Emily brings a blast from the past as they discuss this tale from the future.

Thanks for listening!

Twitter: @ThrowbackBSPod

Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

This week, Kelly and Emily discuss C. S. Lewis's "The Last Battle". Wait... I mean, "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe". It's just really hard to talk about one of these books without talking about ALL of these books, okay? So this podcast contains spoilers for "The Last Battle", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Magician's Nephew"... Anyway, this week, Kelly and Emily dive into the wardrobe and emerge to discuss the Susan Situation, post-Narnia trauma, and why Santa bring misogyny for Christmas.

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Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

We've learned something important this week, dear listeners: it's time to forget that 9-to-5 urban life and run away! This week, we're reading a tale of an escape to peaceful woodland living in Jean Craighead George's book, "My Side of the Mountain". Just how many people can you fit into a hollowed-out tree, anyway? What's the etiquette for chatting up a stranger that you're pretty sure is definitely a bandit? And what are the odds this book's diagrams could actually help us make a fish hook? We have feelings on these things. Many feelings.

Twitter: @ThrowbackBSPod

Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

With the release of a theatrical adaptation on the horizon, Kelly and Emily hop on the bandwagon and tackle Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time".

They have questions. So many questions. Infinite questions. And (spoiler alert) they don't find many answers. Why DO so many books have all-knowing, overly-precocious five-year-olds? Come join the wild journey through time, space, and tesseracts.

And if you have answers, please tweet them at @ThrowbackBSPod. Seriously. Really. Please. We have so many questions about this book.

Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)

Remember digging holes as a kid, just for the sake of seeing what you can find? Cherish those sweet memories of nostalgia, because this week, digging holes is gonna get TOO REAL. Emily and Kelly settle in to read Louis Sachar's 1998 book, "Holes" and discuss their feelings about onions and their respective lizard attack survival strategies.

Twitter: @ThrowbackBSPod

Music: "Heartbreaker" by Jahzzar (betterwithmusic.com)