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Welcome to “Was This Good or Were We 13?”, a podcast where we revisit books from our tween and teen years with both excitement and trepidation. Join hosts and friends Joanna and Kevin, as they reread their favorite middle grade and young adult books and ask the hard hitting questions, like: how well does the story hold up? Are there problematic elements that went completely over our heads? And just how many times can bad science be used to explain away plot holes? Join us for a nostalgia-fueled journey that hopefully won’t ruin your (and our) favorite books.
Unknown Host hosts Was This Good or Were We 13?, a arts show with 14 episodes published.
“Dig it up, oh, oh, dig it…” In our season finale Joanna and Kevin revisit a classic for the ages, Louis Sachar’s Holes (1998). Get ready for nostalgia, child cruelty, and Joanna complaining about how no one will do grou
This week Joanna and Kevin are finishing up their discussion of Graceling by Kristin Cashore. Hear about how the second half of the book is wildly different from the first half, where the series is going next, and how Ke
“Katsa: The Baddest Bitch That Ever Lived” is a better title for this book. Joanna and Kevin read Kristin Cashore’s Graceling (2008) and learn what is a Grace, why every high fantasy has seven kingdoms, and just how hot
In a special minisode, Kevin tells Joanna the origin of how Eragon (2002) came to be. Learn all about Christopher Paolini, the wild ride of getting this book published, and Kevin’s personal history with Eragon (and its m
Bad science has finally arrived! This week Joanna and Kevin read James Patterson’s Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (2005) and discuss just what would 2% bird DNA do to a person, how many times can you have the same pl
Jerry Spinelli was truly a man of many stories. In what is probably just the beginning of reading his backlog, Joanna and Kevin explore Wringer (1997). A boy’s coming-of-age story that involves a surprising amount of pig
A true oldie is being read in this episode! Join Joanna and Kevin in reading The Boxcar Children (1942) by Gertrude Chandler Warner, and learn about some good-old New Englander self-reliance and just how much Kevin likes
Join Joanna and Kevin to finish up Along for the Ride (2009) by Sarah Dessen. Hear about just how many morals you can fit into one story and what Kevin has learned about the female experience. To get in touch, email us a
Potentially the most millennial girl author that ever millennialed, Joanna introduces Kevin to a favorite author from her teen years with Along for the Ride (2009) by Sarah Dessen. Hear about just how not-subtle themes c
A favorite of classrooms and book-banners alike, today Joanna and Kevin revisit Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993). Join as we read what Joanna has coined “baby’s first dystopia” and how this affected children’s and YA litera
“Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.” Joanna and Kevin are time-traveling back to 13th-century England to read Catherine, Called Birdy (1994) by Karen Cushman. Join us as we learn about girlhood in the Medieval Perio
Ever noticed a psychedelic pug on a book cover and wondered what that was about? Well we're here to tell you with our first episode, where Joanna and Kevin talk about the 2002 British children's novel Molly Moon's Incred
Meet hosts Joanna and Kevin to learn about what inspired them to make this podcast.
Joanna and Kevin are two friends with a mission: to reread the books of their youth to see if they actually hold up.
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