Antihero's Journey: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Somebody put a bra on the library dome! It's not a 90s comedy middle grade book; it's The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. Join us for chat about art as protest, why girls should treat girls with respect, and what YA character we think will head the CIA. 

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: Goodreads

E. Lockhart: website

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Content Notes

This is a book that deals with internalized misogyny, textually, and gender essentialism. There's a lot of both. There are teen boys dressing femme as a joke, and a lot of humor circling around what genders have what configurations. It can be a heavy read. We would love to see a 10th anniversary edition with an intro from the author on how things have changed...and how they haven't.

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Show Notes

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Shelf Discovery by Lizzie Skurnick (the Harriet the Spy essay is in this one!)

We did an episode on The Boyfriend List

Frankie Landau-Banks on neglected positives and imaginary neglected positives

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

You can get your own light up basset hound!

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Readalikes

Persons of Consequence by K.D. Hume

Shrill by Lindy West

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Current Reads

There's a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott

The Summer of Jordi Perez  by Amy Spalding

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Episode 19: Those Were Some Feelings: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

LIBBA HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US. Now that we have this out of our systems, join us as we close the Gemma Doyle trilogy, talking about our D&D alignments, Paris sapphists, and a light in the dark of winter.

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Have you read the rest of the series? Check out our episodes about A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels!

The Sweet Far Thing: Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound

Libba Bray: Website, Blog

Libba Bray answers Frequently Asked Questions About The Sweet Far Thing: Part 1, Part 2

We love to hear from our readers and listeners! Send us email, or visit us at Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!

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Content Warnings

Violence! Gore! Sexual Harassment! Betrayal! This is a rough book, y'all, but it'll turn out well for our intrepid trio.

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Show Notes

Celebrating Candlemas

Diviners Series

One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Libba Bray

Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to the D&D Game by Shelly Mazzanoble

Online D&D Alignment Test

Fuse 8 n’ Kate: The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright 

- The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright by Jean Nathan

Folk Horror Revival

Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

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Readalikes

The Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey

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The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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Episode 12: Everything Terrible Happens at Christmas: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray

Happy Yule and Saturnalia! It's a Winter Wonderland at Go Your Own YA, where everything festively terrible happens to Gemma Doyle in Rebel Angels by Libba Bray. Carols, presents, wraiths and horrible fates in the classic about monstrous teen girls. We talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the heroine's journey and folk horror Christmas traditions as we gear for a festive month of reads.

Rebel Angels: Goodreads

Beauty Queens: Goodreads

Libba Bray: Website

Content Warnings

Drug addiction in a family member, general Victorian racism,classism, and sexism, parental incest, blood and gore, suicide, and a whole lot of plot set in an asylum

Show Notes

Paradise Lost by John Milton at Project Gutenberg

Cassandra Clare scoops £1m for first adult novels

A Victorian [England] Christmas

Saturnalia: The December Festival of Joy and Merriment in Ancient Rome

The Winter Solstice - Yule Lore

Folk Horror Revival

Jólakötturinn, The Christmas Cat of Iceland

8 Legendary Monsters of Christmas

15 Fascinating Facts About The Wicker Man

Picnic at Hanging Rock

One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Libba Bray

Monstrous Bodies: Feminine Power in Young Adult Horror Fiction

Who are the Baby Bees? Listen to Baby-Sitters Club Club to find out

Actually it was Lizzie Skurnick that talked about friends of proximity in Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Internet Anagram Server

From Bethlehem to Bedlam - England's First Mental Institution

Here's a playlist of the BBC's videos on Victorian Christmas How Tos!

Libba Bray blogs on depression

The Finishing School series by Gail Carriger

A Gemma sighting in Lair of Dreams! Thank you to allthesmallwords.tumblr.com for the photo

Readalikes

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves

Current Reads

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

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Episode 7: Happy Halloween! A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Happy Halloween! Spooky Month concludes with a classic involving strange powers, mysterious girls, Victorian social mores and ancient goddess cults. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray gives readers a chilly horror fantasy set in a boarding school, answering the question, what if you gave teenage girls phenomenal cosmic power?

A Great and Terrible Beauty:  Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound

Libba Bray: Website

Content Note:

This book is written from the point of view of a white English girl from 1895, and subsequently she is a pretty terrible person when it comes to India, the lower class, and especially Romani/Traveller folks. The story also touches on emotional and physical abuse, bullying, self-injury, drug use, alcohol use, ableism and suicide. 

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Show Notes

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" by Jia Tolentio

Twenty [Roma] Women You Should Be Reading

#OwnVoices Spotlight: South Asian Authors

F*ck Yeah Gemma Doyle Trilogy on Tumblr

Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan

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Episode 5: It's Always the Redhead: Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan

The third episode of Spooky Month! Carey and Marie read Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan and never sleep again. Ghosts, possessions, boarding schools, neglected teenagers and mysterious (terrible) boys?  A perfect Halloween read! And a perfect income stream if done consensually!

Content Warnings: Possession, Neglectful/Abusive Parents, Boys with Bad Boundaries, 70s ideas about mental health and loss of it

Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan:  Goodreads, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound

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Down A Dark Hall: Getting The Spirit In The Dark Fine Lines column by Lizzie Skurnick

the deep bottom drawer: an interview with Lois Duncan by Megan Abbott

The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer

Lois Duncan wrote a cat picture book! I Walk At Night, written by Lois Duncan, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher.

Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer by Lois Duncan

Who Killed Lois Duncan's Daughter?

Lois Duncan Thrillers Get an Update

AnnaSophia Robb to Star in Supernatural Drama ‘Down a Dark Hall’ From Stephenie Meyer

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Readalikes:

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Tell Us Your Secret by Barbara Cohen

Current Reads:

As I Descended by Robin Talley

I Hate Everyone but You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin

Bad With Money by Gaby Dunn

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