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Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High #56: LOST AT SEA (w/ Ryan Mogge)
46:21|Kelly is joined by guest cohost Ryan Mogge to talk Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High #56: LOST AT SEA! Jessica and Winston Egbert are lost at sea! They wash up on a non-desert island and build a house complete with sofa, encounter a bear, and DO NOT reach anything other than platonic respect! Meanwhile, Elizabeth's storyline is... being worried about Jessica.
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Carolyn Keene's The Nancy Drew Files #31: Trouble in Tahiti
51:02|This week Kelly and Katai read THE NANCY DREW FILES #31: TROUBLE IN TAHITI by Carolyn Keene, a banger of a Nancy Drew from start to finish. They talk stereotyping the French but not the Tahitians, action action action, karate performances, Nan being over the bullshit, Nan having to actively choose to be human, Ned being useless, the best forms of murder (creature and spear gun), and more!Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond
01:21:10|This week Kelly and Katai cover THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by Elizabeth George Speare! Cute sailor boys, misunderstood pond witches, nuanced New England politics, and more!Richie Tankersley Cusick's Walk of the Spirits
01:21:37|This week Kelly and Katai subject themselves to WALK OF THE SPIRITS by their former friend, Richie Tankersley Cusick, a barely there ghost story glorifying the Confederacy??? They talk racism, slavery erasure, and, unfortunately, more. It goes badly.Margaret Buffie's The Haunting of Frances Rain
53:42|This week Kelly and Katai read THE HAUNTING OF FRANCES RAIN by Margaret Buffie, the story of a girl who sees ghosts whenever she puts on an old pair of glasses… in Canada! They talk compelling family drama, loving Toothy Tim, their love of DTF St Louis, absent mothers, underdeveloped ghosts, and more!Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
56:35|This week Kelly and Katai read the 1991 Newbury Honor winner THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE by Avi, the story of a thirteen-year-old Regency era snob who becomes a sailor. They talk the right kind of Mary Sues, skillful changing of minds, how you should always keep the dirk, how you should always play along, the hubris of forgetting the patriarchy and racism, and more!Jason Pargin's I'M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT THIS BLACK BOX OF DOOM
01:49:35|This week Kelly and Katai read I’M STARTING TO WORRY ABOUT THIS BLACK BOX OF DOOM by Jason Parkin, the story of a girl, a boy, and a black box traveling across the country stirring internet conspiracy theories along the way. They talk lack of story, too many monologues, liking the characters, liking the humor, but overall find it to be less than the sum of its parts.