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

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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 3: Just Another Creepy Doll: The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds

It's Spooky Month! Carey and Marie kick things off with The Museum of Mary Child by Cassandra Golds. Within, all your creepy doll, Anglican allegory, talking bird, Regency Gothic and mysterious orphan needs. In this episode, you tell yourself it was just a dream, but the Society of Caged Birds tells us otherwise.

The Museum of Mary Child: Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, Better World Books, Libraries/WordCat

Cassandra Golds: Website

Clair de Lune: Goodreads

The Three Loves of Persimmon: Goodreads

Pureheart: Goodreads

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Content Warnings: Emotional Abuse, Religious Abuse, Mental Illness, Abuse of the Mentally Ill, Abuse through the Carceral System

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Books as friends, symbols and Cassandra Golds' Museum of Mary Child

Charles Manson and the Beach Boys

Hail Atlantis: A Long, Strange Trip in the Life of the Psychedelic Garage Ensemble

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Magic Attic Club

My Friends Dolls

Ghost of the Doll: 

Ghost Of The Doll is an ID website dedicated to toys of the 1980's and 1990's (plus a few 2000's thrown in for good measure)! Here you can reminisce whilst browsing through an extensive selection of toys, view commercials and chat in the forum.

Always Sisters

Sunshine Family

Julie's Fondue Set

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Marie's Readalikes:

Wishing for Tomorrow: A Sequel to A Little Princess by Hilary McKay

Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassidy

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Carey's Readalikes:

John Bellairs

Mary Downing Hahn

The Bears' House by Marilyn Sachs

Currently Reading:

Doll Bones by Holly Black

The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

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