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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.45: The CW’s Little Women, Spoilers, and Naomi Novik’s Uprooted

We talk about spoilers, finally! Whiskey Jenny and I have polar opposite views on them, and we get into it on this episode. We also discuss the news that the CW will be producing a gritty dystopian adaptation of Little Women (YAY). Finally, we review Naomi Novik’s novel Uprooted, one of Whiskey Jenny’s first forays into the fantasy genre! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 45 Books discussed in this podcast are listed, in order, below. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott An…

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More books from my childhood

So Mary Francis Shura’s The Josie Gambit is where I learned pretty much everything I knew about chess.  Twelve-year-old chess geek Greg is spending six months with his grandmother, and he reunites with his old friend and chess partner Josie.  Josie has an absolutely hateful friend Tory, whose utter nastiness everyone is at a loss to explain.  And the book is, essentially, all about why Tory is such a nasty girl. When I was small, I liked this book because everyone ate a lot of food, and I learned interesting things about chess, and there was a very unpleasant Lhaso…

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