SEASON 7 EPISODE 1: CHOICE

Bienvenue! Welcome! Can you believe it’s season 7 already?? We’re going all in on some pure, lightheaheading YA fun this time as we read Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. Our foundational theme is, very appropriately, youth. We kick things off reading chapters 1-5 through the theme of choice this week.

In this section, Anna Oliphant’s tragi-romance writer dad has shipped her off to Paris for her senior year, but she’s less than thrilled to be stuck in a place where she can’t speak the language and knows nobody. She already misses her brother, her bestie Bridget, and her job at the multiplex. On the upside, her next-door neighbour Meredith seems pretty great, and there is also a beautiful boy named Etienne St Clair…

This episode was recorded on 23 July 2022.  

Show notes

This week we’re reading chapters 1-5 through the theme of choice. If you’d like to read along with us, you can find the full breakdown here.

A Tardis of One’s Own - Jen V & Sophie are having a great time and luckily they’ve already got loads of episodes out here. Get to it!  

Read more here about Ncuti Gatwa being cast as the 14th Doctor! (Catch him on Sex Education where many of us first fell in love with him.)  

SHORT KINGS. We stan. Here is a TikTok explaining why.

We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and tangata whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.

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Thanks for listening! Next week, we’re reading Chapters 6-10 through the theme of complaining.