Episode 013: We Are Okay by Nina La Cour

We discuss We Are Okay by Nina La Cour.

Cash Money suggests Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson and the Cat Power song "Colors and the Kids."

Nate suggests Just Listen by Sarah Dessen and the song "My Love For You Is Real" by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals.

Kim suggests If I Stay by Gayle Forman.

Nathan suggests The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.

Lindsey suggests I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson.

Katie suggests "Brian and Stewie" the seventeenth episode of the eighth season of the animated television show Family Guy.

Episode 012: Interview With Meg Medina

Meg Medina was gracious enough to join us in the kitchen (via Facetime), and we had a wide ranging discussion: we talked about Burn Baby Burn, disco, Soul Train, baseball, and the women's movement. We hope you absolutely love this episode!

Episode 011: My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier

In between fighting the urge to talk about how creepy Dexter is and how disappointed we were with the 4th season of Sherlock, we discuss Justine Larbalestier's My Sister Rosa.

Katie suggests I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga, Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis (which we'll discuss in a future episode), and Law & Order SVU.

Lindsey suggests Dexter.

Cash Money suggests the Elijah Wood movie The Good Son and Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson.

Nate suggests Misery (both the movie and the Stephen King novel).

Nathan jokingly suggested The B in Apartment 23, but edited it out of the episode in a rare moment of clarity (wait, why is it in the show notes, then?)

Episode 010: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

We add a new segment in which we respond to random comments Nate finds on the Internet, Nathan argues that the Weeknd is not as forlorn as Kurt Cobain, and we discuss Nicola Yoon's The Sun is Also a Star.

Lindsey suggests A.S. King's Ask the Passengers and Please Ignore Vera Dietz.

Katie suggests Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell & The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

Kim suggests Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn.

Nathan also puts in a plug (sort of) for Nick and Nora.

Nate suggests The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds.

Ca$h Money suggests Before Sunrise.

Episode 009: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

The panel discusses The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner.

Ca$h Money (aka Amanda) suggests I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga.

Nathan and Katie suggest The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Nate suggests Friday Night Lights (but only the television program), The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson and Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Kim suggests Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, the opening scenes of the Hunger Games, The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Wolfhollow by Lauren Wolk, and Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruits by Jayne Robbin Brown.

Episode 008: Scythe by Neal Shusterman

In our discussion of Neal Shusterman's Scythe, Nate muses, "are we off the rails?" Maybe we are: Nathan suggests a twitter feed as a readalike, and Molly and Nathan complain about the editing standards at Simon & Schuster.

Lindsey suggest The Giver by Lois Lowry and Croak by Gina Damico (and the show Dead Like Me).

Cash Money suggests the film Serenity and the episode "Nose Dive" (Season 3; episode 1) of Black Mirror.

Nathan suggests Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (esp. the back matter), The Rebel and Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus, and the AltUsNatParkService twitter feed.

Kim suggests The Expanse (on SyFy)and Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.

Katie suggests The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau.

Episode 007: The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

In this episode we discuss The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry.

Molly suggests A Northern Light or Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly.

Nathan suggests Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

And Kim suggests books by Elizabeth Wein (Rose Under Fire, Codename Verity, or Black Dove, White Raven.