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His Dark Materials S2E2/3: People Are Afraid of Things They Don't Understand

December 2, 2020 Emily
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His Dark Materials recaps are back. I hope you hadn’t forgotten about them! I definitely meant to post a recap last week, but I’m human and life got the best of me. If you know me personally, then you know that the end of November is a difficult time for me every year. And with everything else that’s going on in 2020, this year was just especially hard. I watched the show last week, I had my notes, but I just couldn’t find the time or the energy to sit down and actually write the thing. And that’s just the honest truth.

But one week is not the end of the world, right? It just means this week I have two episodes to recap for you, the one from last Monday and the one that aired this past Monday. For my sanity (and yours) I won’t cover everything that happened in these two episodes because who wants to read all of that? So we’ll be doing things a little bit differently this week. I’ll highlight some of the more notable things that happened in these two episodes and offer my thoughts on them. And then next week it will be back to recaps as normal.

His Dark Materials fans, I hope that’s okay with you, and I hope you’ll forgive me! I am loving this show so much.

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In Blog Tags Emily posts, His Dark Materials, Recaps, Television, Children's books
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Othersode #44: Speaking of Mothers / The Secret Garden / Interview with Adrienne Brodeur

August 24, 2020 The Squad
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Othersode #44: Speaking of Mothers / The Secret Garden / Interview with Adrienne Brodeur

Get out of your big ornate bed and join us in The Secret Garden as we discuss the new 2020 adaptation of the classic children’s novel! We discuss the key changes in this adaptation, including the setting and the narrative arc of the children’s parents. We also answer the very important question: Is Colin Firth a daddy? Next, Emily interviews Adrienne Brodeur, author of the memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me. Then, we dig into a bit of Hamilton feedback and chat about what’s on the #BookSquadBlog. Read along with us for our next #bookpisode on We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia (September 7), and watch the film adaptation of I’m Thinking of Ending Things for our next #othersode (September 21)! Join our discussions and send any feedback to thesquad@booksquadgoals.com.

Click through for summary, table of contents, and show notes!

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In 3-Podcast Tags Books, Children's books, Movies, Interviews
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Say Hello to Your Friends: The Babysitter's Club on Netflix

July 12, 2020 Mary, Jen, and Emily
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Jen: Say hello to your friends!

Mary: Yay!

Emily: hiii

Mary: Hello, fellow babysitters.

Just kidding, I have zero babysitting experience.

Jen: We did a summer camp! That kind of counts?

Mary: Oh yeah! I think that counts.

Emily: I've done a ton of babysitting.

Jen: You are our actual babysitting expert!

Last week, Netflix released a reboot of The Babysitters Club, based on the series by Ann M. Martin in the 80s and 90s! It is focused on a group of young girls who decide to start their own babysitting business, but it's also really about the friendships they form along the way!

(Minor spoilers for BSC ahead.)

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In Blog Tags Television, Emily posts, Mary posts, Guest posts, Children's books, Young Adult Lit
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The Erlking, Over the Garden Wall, and Kindness in the Face of Death

May 12, 2020 Mary
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Fairy tales are part of the world’s vocabulary, with tales of various types spreading from continent to continent. There’s a Chinese version of “Cinderella,” for example, and an Italian version of “Little Red Riding Hood.” Something about the home-away-home structure of fairy tales is written into our brains as children and continues to stick with us as we grow up. Each semester when I teach a unit on fairy tales, college students are shocked to realize (or re-learn, maybe) that the tales that seemed so innocent when they were children are filled with death, ruin, and depravity. Those parts--the truly dark parts of fairy tales--always get glossed over in the Disney versions.

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YA Book Club: The Babysitters Coven

December 17, 2019 Mary & Emily
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Mary: For this installment of YA Book Club, we're reading The Babysitter's Coven by Kate Williams. The novel follows Esme Pearl, a high schooler with a babysitter's club (OK, it's just her and her friend Janis, but still), just like in the novels. Everything goes sideways when a new girl appears as school, Cassandra Heaven, and the girls discover they have magical babysitter powers! This book is described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Adventures in Babysitting, and I definitely agree that it relies heavily on several different supernatural-teen favorites, as well as The Babysitter's Club.

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In Blog Tags Young Adult Lit, Children's books, Mary posts, Literature, Books, Emily posts
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7 Books to Pair with Your Thanksgiving Meal

November 18, 2018 Mary

​Thanksgiving can be a hard time. Stuck with family and friends and forced to be social, many of us retreat to the comforts of literature. This Thanksgiving, pair your favorite foods with 8 captivating young adult books to get you through the holidays!

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Just Two Girls Who Miss Aunt Beast: Mary & Susan on A Wrinkle in Time

March 20, 2018 Susan & Mary
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While the whole squad has feelings about Ava Duvernay's new film A Wrinkle in Time, Susan and Mary bring you two perspectives out of four!

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Minisode #5: Sorting Orphans / Interview with Laurel Snyder

August 28, 2017 The Squad
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Minisode #5: Sorting Orphans / Interview with Laurel Snyder

The Book Squad supports Susan in the next step of her Harry Potter journey: her official sorting! Find out what house she gets and what the other Squad members are. Plus, Emily interviews Laurel Snyder, author of Orphan Island. They discuss where the idea for the book came from, YA and middle-grade literature, books that make you think, and, of course, pets! Be sure to enter our giveaway contest to win a signed copy of Orphan Island!

Click through for summary, table of contents, and show notes!

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