Week 2 of New Reads November 2023 is all about Joelle Wellington’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/20867/9781665922425" target="_blank">Their Vicious Games</a>. The book feels like a real return to the heyday of YA, with the addition of organic, fresh threads about class, race, and privilege. On Episode 269, Alli and her guest do plenty of fangirling over the book and discuss concepts like performative allyship, white saviorism, satire, and more.<a href="https://www.erinlarosacreative.com" target="_blank">Erin La Rosa</a> is the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/20867/9781335506344" target="_blank">For Butter or Worse</a> and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/20867/9781335458117" target="_blank">Plot Twist</a>. Follow her on Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/erinlarosalit/" target="_blank">@erinlarosalit</a>) and Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/erinlarosalit" target="_blank">@erinlarosalit</a>).

Episode 270: Throwback (New Reads November)

Each week, freelance writer and lifelong bookworm Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid. After that, they'll be asked to spill all the feels and all the opinions about that book on the air for your podcast-listening pleasure. Every Tuesday, you can find us breaking down an old school read from our tween and teen days on a new episode of the show. We'll cover everything from The Baby-Sitters Club to Holes, Nancy Drew to Harry Potter. This time around, we're a little wiser (yay!), a lot older (ugh.), and of legal age to drink wine... so we'll have a lot to say. Happy Reading!