Two Halves of One Weird Person: We Won’t Feel a Thing By J.C. Lillis

Have you felt a distinct lack of Pushing Daisies in your media rotation? Are you guilty of looking for Magic in Everyday Places? Do you want a romance NOT like all the other YA romances? In this episode, Carey and Marie discuss under-the-radar gem We Won’t Feel a Thing by J.C. Lillis, touching on weird Americana, forbidden romance, scifi versus magical realism, and the inevitable outcome of all those weird self-improvement programs you’re advertised on Facebook: love. Or a mad scientist showing up on your door yelling about manic pixie dream lab assistants AND WHO DOESN’T WANT THAT.

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We Won’t Feel a Thing: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Website, Goodreads

J.C. Lillis: Website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (Superhero M/M romance You First is out May 23, so why not add it on Goodreads?)

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Content Notes

There’s not siblings, she’s the adopted kid of his mom’s college professor.

Heads up for dead parental figure and neglectful textual parents. Also a DEEPLY creepy dude and his creepy actions, up to attempted assault.

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Lissa Treiman kitty comic

The Order of Oddfish (by friend of the podcast James Kennedy!)

Anastasia Krupnick series

Alice McKinley series

Barbie Made-to-Move Curvy Yoga Barbie

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Readalikes

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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Current Reads

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The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan 

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 7: I've Been Waiting for a Squirrel Like You by Ryan North &  Erica Henderson

Tell Me Everything by Sarah Enni 

Episode 31: Moon Boots and Terrible Boys: Alice, I Think by Susan Juby

We’re back, minus a few cup sizes! (The opposite of a lot of YA trajectories, but such is life.) Discussion Alice, I Think by Susan Juby was super fun, especially since Carey and Rie had radically different stances…that shifted over the course of the episode. Just like a good mood ring. Oh, Canada, my Canada, did we mention the fashion in this one? The small-town snark? Oh, and the moose? Wait, that’s book three.

Alice, I Think: Goodreads

Susan Juby: Website

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  (CC Marie Macula, Carey Farrell 2018)