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Fighting Over the Card Catalog

A snarky look back on YA novels of the 80's and 90's

Dec 10, 2019

YOU. ARE. A. CRUMB.

And that's how you insult a traitorous teenage girl, I guess.

This week we REALLY start getting into the cult-like mentality of the Baby-Sitters Club, in Claudia and the New Girl. How DARE Claudia give more attention to ANYTHING ELSE other than baby-sitting! Ugh!

And though the new girl is very...


Nov 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday to Steven! Happy annoyingly stilted dialogue book day! 

This week we read the Dare Boys of 1776 by S.A.D. Cox. And it's a lot.

Lots of dick jokes!

Lots of strangling!

Lots of Brits running away!

Lots of Hamilton references!

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Nov 21, 2019

This week we meet possibly the most conceited protagonist we've had yet! Ol' Slippery Jim DeGriz, in Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat.

There are lots of explosions, misogyny, chicanery, and SO MUCH PAPER in the future!

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Nov 14, 2019

Cause Jess sure as hell doesn't know!

This week we read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! 

We meet Gandalf Ted Danson, discuss the movie and stage adaptations, and did Adams predict Kindles, Google, and the Trump presidency??? 

Hope you read the title to the tune of How Do You Solve a Problem Like...


Nov 7, 2019

We've got a tasty episode this week with Thomas Rockwell's How to Eat Fried Worms!

We celebrate Skyfox Day, and Steven gives us a dramatic reading of the most action-packed scene of the book, and tells us about an action-packed moment of his own life.

And what does everyone eat 1.6 ounces of a year? Find out this week...