Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo and complain about Mal.
Continue readingEpisode #340: Why So Petty?
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Episode #339: Simon Says
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl talk about season one of One of Us Is Lying (2021-2022).
Continue readingEpisode #337: One of Us Had to Go
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus.
Continue readingEpisode #328: Wholesome Realism
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss season 2 of The Baby-sitters Club.
Continue readingEpisode #319: But the Crows, Though
A jam-packed episode on the first season of Shadow and Bone!
Continue readingEpisode #318: Emphasis on Chaos
We thought it would never happen, but the Adaptation team is finally covering Chaos Walking (2021).
Continue readingEpisode #316: Eff That Noise
Coming to you from the distant past of 2019, Dorin and Kendyl talk about The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.
Continue readingEpisode #314: Choosing Each Other
Jenn (completely voluntarily) joins Corey and Kendyl to talk about To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021), the finale to the movie series.
Continue readingEpisode #312: Near and Far, Closer Together
Corey and Kendyl cover the final book in the To All the Boys trilogy, Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han.
Continue readingEpisode #311: Where Is the Power?
The Adaptation team finally dive into the Grishaverse with Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Any count on how many times we’ve raved about it on the podcast before this point?
Continue readingEpisode #295: In Need of BSC Merch
In this episode, the hosts do their best to cover the extensive series The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin, reminisce about childhood reading, and find that choosing your favorite baby-sitter is a lot like therapy.
Episode #292: Only Seeing the Bright Places
Jess and Kendyl discuss Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places, mental health, grief, recovery, and seeing the whole of a person.
Trigger warning: Just like the novel, this episode contains discussion of suicide, depression, mental illness, abuse, grief, and death. Please, keep yourself safe and skip this episode if these topics could be harmful to you. If you do proceed, please keep in mind that we are in no way mental health experts.
Episode #291: Genius, Billionaire, Criminal, Philanthropist
Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the first two books in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, its calculating protagonist, middle grade humor, and their favorite play on words… ever?
Episode #285: What Would Stormy Do?
Is there anything like the nostalgia we have for middle school? Can we ever really see ourselves clearly? Will some people be bonded to you forever? Corey, Jenn, and Kendyl dive deep into the world of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys universe with the second book in the series, P.S. I Still Love You.
Episode #281: What Tin Foil?
In this episode, Adaptation discusses Let It Snow (2019) with hosts that have and hosts that have not read the John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle novel it’s based on.
Episode #276: The Golden Alethiometer
In this episode, we get into the complexities of the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, Northern Lights aka The Golden Compass.
Episode #273: Listen to Alaska
Jenn, Jess, and Kendyl dive into the third John Green novel that we’ve covered on Adaptation, Looking for Alaska. The group talks through the friendships, the pranks, and seeing others fully.
Episode #260: Fate Is Also a Star
Jess and Kendyl read Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star and have a ton to say about destiny versus chance, identity, and the butterfly effect.
Episode #248: Percival Dumbledore and the Mating Habits of Dementors
The team plays fast and loose with the definition of “adaptation” so that they can cover Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the newest addition to the Potterverse, about which ours hosts hold very strong opinions.
Episode #245: The Prejudice U Give
This time around, Jenn and Kendyl discuss the film adaptation The Hate U Give (2018), the standout performances, and the changes from the text that might have strengthened the story.
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