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125. Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao

Eunice and Teffer review Rent a Boyfriend, Gloria Chao’s third book! We talk (a lot) about family dynamics, boundaries, compassion, and peer pressure. Also a little about love, and a lot about writing!

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124. Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala

This week Bailey and Teffer talk about a shiny new release: Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala! We’re chatting about crafts, glassblowing, competition shows, Boston, crafting in competition shows in Boston, love, parents, art, passion, and so much more!

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117. Dash & Lily: Series Review

SPOILERS: This review contains massive spoilers for the entirety of the Netflix series! You’ve been warned! After reviewing Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares back in 2018, Bailey and Teffer return to review the new Netflix series Dash & Lily! We argue about whether or not it’s good, whose faces need punching, and romance… but it might surprise you who’s getting mushy this time.

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99. Sick Kids In Love by Hannah Moskowitz

This week, Teffer and Bailey talk about disability, boundaries, and medical bullshit in Sick Kids in Love, a book that provides much-needed representation of chronic illness in YA.

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94. Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest

This week is full of new stuff! We have a new host, Eunice Hong, and our first review of an upcoming release! We talk about the role of tropes in comfort reading, what makes an author an “automatic buy,” and how the YA landscape has improved since our highschool days.

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85. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M.

In our final Anne of Green April episode, we take on a book written twenty years after Anne of Green Gables. We talk about lesbians, fashion-forward fan fiction, lesbians, letter writing, lesbians, saviour complexes, and lesbians.

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84. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

This week our Anne series continues, with Anne going to college and falling in love. We talk about what distinguishes this series as a turn of the century work and the ways growing up makes us revise and reconsider our expectations. We also revisit our discussion of Anne… what happens when she’s not the quirkiest girl in the room?

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Pixar Shorties #4 – Day & Night (2010), La Luna (2011), The Blue Umbrella (2013) & Lava (2014)

Buckle up because our penultimate episode of our limited series run of Pixar Shorties is here! This week we take a deep dive into Pixar Shorties #4 – Day & Night (2010), La Luna (2011), The Blue Umbrella (2013) & Lava (2014).

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PP27 – Elemental (2023)

It’s time to get back to basics, back to foundations, back to…dare we say…the elements? The Pixar Pals are following the fiery young Lumen family to Element City as they build a new home, business, and life in a completely unfamiliar land that’s less than friendly to fire types. But when sparks fly between the Lumen’s daughter Ember and city inspector Wade, Elemental really starts to heat up.

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