wearereread

[wearereread]

It's been a long time... but we're back! Just in time for the most spookiest season of the year, we revisit the YA classic that jumpstarted the "dystopia but with kids" genre—The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! What will Casey and Morgan disagree about this time?!

[wearereread]

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

[wearereread]

What time is it? It's Jane Austen time. And this time, we take a look at her one of most divisive works ever—Mansfield Park. Will the book live up to Pride and Prejudice’s heights, or will it dash Casey's newfound love for Austen?

[wearereread]

It's that time of the year when we get together as friends and family to watch our favorite Presidents' Day film—Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. 

[wearereread]

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, [read the His Dark Materials trilogy] like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things." —1 Corinthians 13:11

[wearereread]

It’s time for the (allegedly) epic conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. Will the book redeem the mistake that was The Subtle Knife, or is it doomed to the abyss, to be forgotten forever?

[wearereread]

The Subtle Knife sucks. Happy New Year!

[wearereread]

Where there's a Will, there's a way ... right? We continue our (re)read through the His Dark Materials saga with The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman. Will the sequel of The Golden Compass remain a cut above the rest? Let's find out.

[wearereread]

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 Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass. 

[wearereread]

Just in time for the Christianiest of Christian holidays, we revisit the first entry of the Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (which is definitely NOT responding to The Chronicles of Narnia), The Golden Compass.

[wearereread]

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a great book, and you should read it today.* 

*Or whenever you have time, really. But you better read it! 

[wearereread]

During his years in high school, Casey was assigned only a handful of books by Black authors for his English classes. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was one of those books. Let's see how it holds up.

[wearereread]

"Teenage boys are teenage boys," said @wearereread. "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." 

[wearereread]

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  Emily Bronte's classic romance, Wuthering Heights.

[wearereread]

So, the main villain of Madeleine L’Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is a giant, disembodied brain. ... Spoilers?

[wearereread]

"Dead dogs eat no books." —John Steinbeck, probably

[wearereread]

the fundamentally correct take on Eowyn is,

Eowyn’s character arc of going from seeking glory and death to embracing healing, growth, and peace embodies a, maybe the central theme of Lord of the Rings; it’s well-written, she’s a well-rounded character (and thus well-representative of women, because fundamentally all we want is to be accepted as fully complex human beings, right?); I’m very proud of her, and it’s arguably pretty feminist that Tolkien gave this pivotal place in the plot to a woman

Eowyn is one of very few female characters with so much as a name and speaking role, she’s the only one of the women with a character arc at all, and the fact that this character arc is about giving up the traditionally masculine ambitions of war in favor of the traditionally feminine pursuits of peace makes even the quality and thematic relevance of it feel really cheap from a feminist perspective; the death knell sounds as her state as the only woman with any sort of character development makes her representative of all of them