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Episode 30: The Pigman by Paul Zindel

September 05, 2018 by Marie Macula in Episodes

Happy 30th Episode everybody! Our scrappy little episode enters the decade of wine, Netflix, and cats/dogs with a Hometown Read from Host Rie. Take the Staten Island Ferry and actually disembark for a tale of two ungrateful teenagers and the sweetest old man in the world. We talk high school shenanigans, kids these days, and assigned reading while lamenting the fate of the Pigman. Oops. Unless you had it as assigned reading. 

The Pigman: Goodreads

Paul Zindel: Website


Content Notes

Oh boy. Terrible parents, elder abuse, grief, horrible 1960s zoos, casual and not-so-casual homophobia. Host Rie also rags on her hometown a bunch. It deserves it. 


Show Notes

Tiger after getting mama back from the evil recording studio

Tiger after getting mama back from the evil recording studio

The Pigman's Legacy by Paul Zindel

The Pigman and Me by Paul Zindel

Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on their Toes by Ernestine Gilbreth

Lizabeth Zindel

The Vanderbilt Tomb

Turn your cremains into a sparkly orb or a puppet but maybe not a pie

Rie's 8th grade curriculum: Zlata's Diary, Letters from Rivka, Behind Rebel Lines, Farewell to Manzanar 

Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick

Chemistry by C.L. Lynch

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg

We love you Podscure!

 


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Readalikes

Scarlet Epstein Hates it Here by Anna Breslaw

We Won't Feel a Thing by J.C. Lillis


Current Reads

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Sitting on Saturn by Joe Beine

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert


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September 05, 2018 /Marie Macula
hometown reads, historical fiction, Staten Island, New York City, mentors, Intergenerational friendship
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Episode 14: The Betsy-Tacy Holiday Special

December 19, 2017 by Marie Macula in Episodes

Happy Hols, Readers and Listeners! This episode is all about the classic Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace and their wonderful, homey Christmas chapters. We talk holiday memories, stories about childhood friendship, and just a little bit of terrible boys, creepy elves, and talking trains.


Content Warnings

Forever YA goes into detail about the racial, class, and other issues which color these books, and what you, the modern reader, should need to know. Read here for Betsy and Tacy go Downtown, and here for Betsy and Joe.


Show Notes

The Betsy-Tacy Society

Betsy-Tacy Convention 2018: August 3-5, Minneapolis, MN

The return of Maud Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books.

"Isn't That Just like Tib?": Betsy and Tacy Confront the Other

The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Lillian Russell and Mrs. Poppy via The Betsy-Tacy Encyclopedia, who also share A Very Mer-Ray Christmas describing happy scenes from Heaven to Betsy

Betsy-Tacy's Deep Valley: All things Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley

Photo by Damien Walmsley

Photo by Damien Walmsley

The Most Festive Things to Do in Milwaukee this Holiday Season

Ten Beloved German Christmas Traditions

A Smoke-Free Goodnight Moon

Christkindlmarket Chicago

Five Good Things from the Christmas Fair on Staten Island Catholic school Christmas Fairs, by Dinosaur Dracula

Italian Christmas Traditions: The Legend of La Befana


 

Readalikes

The Wondrous World of Violet Barnaby by Jenny Lundquist

The Emily Byrd Starr series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Current Reads

The Ghost of a Chance by Natalie Vivien

The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian


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December 19, 2017 /Marie Macula
historical fiction, holiday month, Betsy-Tacy
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