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Just in time for Casey's birthday, Morgan's birthday, spooky season, the holiday season, and Valentine's Day, we return to the greatest love saga ever told (if you were born after 1995). That's right, we're talking about New Moon by Stephenie Meyer! Will Casey survive a second dose of Twilight fever? Show notes: "The Racial and Gender Politics of The Twilight Saga's Mi...

"If we burn, you burn with us." --Casey to Suzanne Collins after reading the travesty of a novel that is Mockingjay .

The first book was okay. The second book was perfect. Will Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay end the Hunger Games trilogy on a high note?

It's safe to say that President Snow one could've predicted how much Casey would end up liking Catching Fire.

Nothing's spookier than a book sequel, because as we've shown on (Re)Read, it's always worse than the original...or is it? Let's find out as we dive into the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins!

The moral of the story: The real treasure is the friends we see die along the way.

Just in time for the most depressing season of the year, we revisit the YA classic that jumpstarted the "dystopia but with kids" genre--#TheHungerGames by #SuzanneCollins! What will Casey and Morgan disagree about this time?!?!?!?!?!

Something wicked this way comes, courtesy of a listener recommendation! We celebrate the Bard's birthday early with a look at #WilliamShakespeare's shortest and possibly cursed tragedy, #Macbeth!

Fanny is the greatest #JaneAusten heroine ever, and you are a bad person if you disagree. Show Notes: "Jane Austen and Empire" by Edward Said

What time is it? It's #JaneAusten time. And this time, we take a look at her most divisive work ever—#MansfieldPark. Will the book live up to #PrideAndPrejudice's heights, or will it dash Casey's newfound love for Austen? Show Notes: "Jane Austen and Empire" by Edward Said

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, [read the #HisDarkMaterials trilogy] like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things." -- 1 Corinthians 13:11 Show Notes: "The Dark Side of Narnia" by Philip Pullman "Far From Narnia" by Laura Miller

It's time for the (allegedly) epic conclusion of the #HisDarkMaterial trilogy: #TheAmberSpyglass by #PhilipPullman. Will the book redeem the mistake that was #TheSubtleKnife, or is it doomed for the abyss, to be forgotten forever? Show Notes: "The Dark Side of Narnia" by Philip Pullman "Far From Narnia" by Laura Miller

#TheSubtleKnife sucks. Merry Christmas! Show Notes: "The Dark Side of Narnia" by Philip Pullman "Far From Narnia" by Laura Miller

Where there's a Will, there's a way ... right? We continue our (re)read through the #HisDarkMaterials saga with #TheSubtleKnife by #PhilipPullman. Will the sequel of #TheGoldenCompass remain a cut above the rest? Let's find out. Show Notes: "The Dark Side of Narnia" by Philip Pullman "Far From Narnia" by Laura Miller

Nothing says "children's book podcast" like an esoteric discussion about adapting myths and the academic interpretations of the Garden of Eden story as they apply to #PhilipPullman's #TheGoldenCompass. Show Notes: "The Dark Side of Narnia" by Philip Pullman "Far From Narnia" by Laura Miller

#ThingsFallApart by Chinua Achebe is a great book, and you should read it today*. *Or whenever you have time, really. But you better read it! Show Notes: John Green's Crash Course Literature series: Things Fall Apart

During his years in high school, Casey was assigned only a handful of books by Black authors for his English classes*. #ThingsFallApart by #ChinuaAchebe was one of those books. Let's see how it holds up. *Morgan's high school assigned her ZERO books by writers of color. Show Notes: John Green's Crash Course Literature series: Things Fall Apart

"Teenage boys are teenage boys," said Morgan and Casey. "Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. But if I’m to choose between a Nice Guy™ in the making who sometimes turns into a werewolf and a controlling, possessive 104-year-old stalker who cosplays as a high school student, then I prefer not to choose at all." Show notes: Lolita Podcast by J...

#Twilight is the most divisive book of all time ... but why? Morgan and Casey add their discourse to #TheDiscourse on #StephenieMeyer's polarizing vampire romance. Show notes:  Lolita Podcast by Jamie Laftus "Forced Seduction": The Trope of Non-Consensual Romantic Fiction by Kayleigh Donaldson

♪ Lights up on #WutheringHeights, up at the break of day to chase the ghost of my dead lover away! ♪

Nothing says love like promising to rip out your boo's husband's heart out and drink his blood. Revisit the glory of the most toxic relationship in the universe in #EmilyBronte 's classic romance, #WutheringHeights .

The main villain of #MadeleineLEngle 's #AWrinkleinTime is a giant, disembodied #brain . #Spoilers ?

On this episode, we go back to a classic from elementary school—# AWrinkleinTime by Madeleine L'Engle! Will we go mad for Madeleine's mad book this time around ... or will it just drive us mad? Show Notes: "The Power of Adolescent Anger: L'Engle's Meg Murry and Pratchett's Tiffany Aching" by Dorothy Bennett #AWrinkleinTime #MadeleineLEngle #Meg #CharlesWallace #MrsWhatsit #MrsWho #MrsWhich

If you grew up in California, you read #JohnSteinbeck's #OfMiceAndMen. But was it actually any...good? Or should Steinbeck's dog, Max, have done a better job of eating the draft of the book? Show Notes: "The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon " by Sonya Freeman Loftis #JohnSteinbeck #OfMiceAndMen #Lenny #George #Max

Is Howl a jerk? Or is he just misunderstood? Morgan and Casey debate this age-old questions asked of all #badboys. (Also, a preemptive apology to #DianaWynneJones for possibly the dumbest pun ever.) Show Notes: A delightful interview with Diana Wynne Jones