Épisodes

  • "everyone wants to know"

    "everyone wants to know"
    Feb 19 2025

    mom and emily read "everyone wants this" by Kelly Loy Gilbert! Spoiler, we accidentally had a 30 minute phone call where we discussed everything before recording...


    we discuss social media, our relationships to our own moms, and the importance of not having too many plotlines in your book.


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    1 h et 8 min
  • "dairy queen"

    "dairy queen"
    Feb 5 2025
    mom and emily have made their way forward in time to the 2000s. we're reading dairy queen, a book about a teenage girl who runs a dairy farm and goes out for the football team. in this episode, we talk about the lack of social media and phones in this book, the master class on how to talk about the size and shape of someone's body (if you must) that catherine murdock puts on, and the joy of coming from a family that isn't quiet. tune in next week for a recent piece of YA fiction, everyone wants to know.

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    1 h et 25 min
  • "up a road slowly"

    "up a road slowly"
    Jan 22 2025
    this month, emily and jane (mom!!!!!) are talking about ya fiction and how it has changed through time. in this episode, i reckon with the fact that i was reading ya as many as FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, among other things. this week, we read up a road slowly by irene hunt, and discuss having a village instead of a nuclear family, the importance of breaking cyclical family dynamics, and how publishing worked before amazon. next week, we'll move into the aughts and talk all things dairy queen.

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    1 h et 29 min
  • netflix adaptation month conclusion

    netflix adaptation month conclusion
    Dec 18 2024

    kayla and tuck discuss basically everything in the world except these three books. when we do manage to talk about the books, we talk about the importance of having an editor (a common theme), the craziest plotline, and whether or not we're too old to be reading YA.



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    1 h et 3 min
  • "to all the boys i've loved before"

    "to all the boys i've loved before"
    Dec 3 2024
    kayla and tuck read the #1 netflix book to movie adaptation (in tuck's heart). we discuss what a breath of fresh air it is to read a book that clearly had an editor, as well as the stanford complex and noah centineo's innate lack of charm in anything besides this film. tune in next week for our netflix adaptation conclusion!

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    1 h
  • "the law of tall girls"

    "the law of tall girls"
    Nov 13 2024
    this week, tuck and kayla read the inspo for the netflix movie tall girl (we think)! we discuss teachers getting fired, how CPS might have been good just this once, and the various insane things put down in ink in this book.

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    1 h et 12 min
  • "the kissing booth"

    "the kissing booth"
    Oct 30 2024
    womp womp womp we read another book that shoulda stayed fanfiction!! kayla is back for another month and this time we're reading netflix teen comedy adaptations. what is a cinematic masterpiece (the kissing booth) is about 400 pages too long. we discuss british-isms, weirdly chill parents, and yet another teen attending harvard. tune in next week for the rule of tall girls!

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    1 h et 5 min
  • fairy tale month conclusion

    fairy tale month conclusion
    Oct 16 2024
    emily and betsy finish out fairy tale month with recs, goodreads reviews, and general convos about what we like so much about re-written fairytales. asides include Lily James' blood diamond campaign and the importance of getting out of your reading comfort zone

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    59 min