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Books mentioned in this episode:
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• 50 Shades of Grey, by E. L. James (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Goosebumps series, by R. L. Stine (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Baby-Sitter’s Club series, by Ann M. Martin (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Nancy Drew series, by Carolyn Keene (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• A Million Junes, by Emily Henry (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• A Thousand Nights, by E. K. Johnston (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Veins of the Ocean, by Patricia Engel (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The North Water, by Ian McGuire (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Universal Harvester, by John Darnielle (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• The A Song of Ice and Fire series, by George R. R. Martin (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Flygirl, by Sherri L. Smith (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Rabbit Cake, by Annie Hartnett (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
• Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby (Amazon | Barnes and Noble)
Also mentioned:
• The Snark Squad’s coverage of The Babysitter’s Club, Goosebumps, and 50 Shades of Grey.
• Fact & Fiction in Missoula, MT
• Shakespeare & Co in Missoula, MT
• Big Apple Bookstore in Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Marines’ booktube video “Popular books I hate“
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What do YOU think Marines and Nicole should read together next? Let us know in the comments!
9 comments
A great flight pick for Fly Girls is The Gilded Years (first African American to attend Vassar passing as white). Loved this one and I put Fly Girl on my TBR.
this was such a fun episode! I loved their energy, and can’t wait to give snark squad a listen.
I loved this episode! I listened to it as I was driving home from teaching my acting class. I’m a Baby Boomer, who loves it when young people are nerdy like me and are hooked on analyzing books, movies, plays and TV because I learned to do it with my father when I was a teenager and have never gotten out of the habit. I’d be the kid who was having a one-on-one conversation with the teacher.
Keep up the good work Ladies! Get those younger generations to think more deeply about stories.
I got lots of great recommendations for all of you. Thanks so much! But I don’t really have any to give you in return, (sad face). Many of the books I read have been around a good long while.
I haven’t read Shades of Grey (yet), but I have read Salt to the Sea, also by Ruta Sepetys. I can highly recommend it. It’s the account of a major maritime disaster during WWII that I had never heard of. The story is told by four narrators, and I love the way their histories unfold and intertwine.
I Second this!
Between Shades of Gray is an amazing historical fiction book. It is a great YA crossover and you will learn about a horror during World War II that you probably don’t know. The characters are ones you will care about.
YES! I thought it was so interesting to read a novel about WWII and how it affected others besides Germans and Americans.
I re-read A Wrinkle in Time last year in anticipation of the movie (which I still haven’t seen – sigh), and sadly it did not hold up as well as I had hoped. 🙁 I still enjoyed it, but it was one of my FAVES as a child, and I didn’t love it this time. However, I also re-read His Dark Materials within the past year, and it totally held up!! I’m still blown away that Philip Pullman (a man) created Lyra – and 20 years ago, no less. I love that series.
His Dark Materials is one of my favorite book series of all time!
I also immensely enjoyed his lesser known Sally Lockhart series.
I never read A Wrinkle in Time (or watched the movie) and I’ve been afraid the hype is too great for me to get into it so late in life.