This book was so good! As well as the podcast :)

High school is a monster, and it's eating everyone Robin knows. Discover the backstory of the new Stranger Things fan favorite character, Robin, played by Maya Hawke! It's the beginning of sophomore year, and Robin's Odd Squad friends have decided: this time, they're going to fit in. They couple up, they won't stop talking about college and their future careers, and they're obsessed with trying to act "normal." Robin knows that game well--she's been pretending for years, hoping nobody would notice the sarcastic polyglot French horn player with a bad perm in the back of the room. But there's one aspect of her identity that she knows for sure doesn't fit in with her carefully controlled image--something she's only just now realizing: Robin likes girls. How exactly is she supposed to be her true self in teeny-tiny Hawkins, Indiana? Robin is convinced the only way she can experience real life is by fleeing to Europe for the summer--aka Operation Croissant. But she has no money, no permission, and no one to share the adventure with--and it will take a heck of a lot more than that to escape Hawkins in one piece. Sprinkled with references to your favorite Stranger Things characters, this prequel chronicles one girl's realization that the only person she really needs to be accepted by is herself.

Stranger Things: Rebel Robin by A. R. Capetta, read by Dani Martinek

ma belle evangilne by jim cummings but slowed 🧚🤍

the anxiety, willow & tyler cole - meet me at our spot (slowed + pitched)

In case you’re wondering, this is not a love story. 

 My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people – I had friends. Things were very different, I guess, but that’s all over now.

Now there’s Solitaire. And Michael Holden.

I don’t know what Solitaire are trying to do, and I don’t care about Michael Holden.
I really don’t.

This incredible debut novel by outstanding young author Alice Oseman is perfect for fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and all unflinchingly honest writers.

Solitaire, By Alice Oseman, Read by Holly Gibbs

All instruments and voices by Adam Walsh.
Recorded in 'the Cabin', 2015.
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Beautiful Boy (John Lennon) Cover

Performed by Jayne Entwhistle

About the Book

In Solitaire, Alice Oseman has brought to life a vivid, clever, and heartfelt portrayal of what it's like to be a teenager today. This stunning debut novel—which the Times (London) called "The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age"—is perfect for fans of Melina Marchetta, Stephen Chbosky, and Rainbow Rowell.

My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year—before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of exams and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people—I had friends. Things were very different, I guess, but that's all over now.

Now there's Solitaire. And Michael Holden. I don't know what Solitaire is trying to do, and I don't care about Michael Holden. I really don't.

SOLITAIRE by Alice Oseman

For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." &#160; &#160;&#160; Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she&rsquo;s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she&rsquo;s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don&rsquo;t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. &#160;&#160; Every new scar hardens Charlie&rsquo;s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. &#160; A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing, and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow's debut is heartbreakingly real and unflinchingly honest. It&rsquo;s a story you won&rsquo;t be able to look away from. "Equal parts keen-eyed empathy, stark candor, and terrible beauty. This book is why we read stories: to experience what it's like to survive the unsurvivable; to find light in the darkest night."-Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King "Raw, visceral, and starkly beautiful, with writing that is at times transcendent in its brilliance. . . . An unforgettable story of trauma and resilience."--Kerry Kletter, author of The First Time She Drowned "A breathtakingly written book about pain and hard-won healing . . . I want every girl to read Girl In Pieces."-Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners &ldquo;A&#160;Girl, Interrupted&#160;for a new generation&hellip;.The story of the mad girl is ultimately a story about being a girl in a mad world, how it breaks us into pieces and how we glue ourselves back together."&mdash;Melissa Febos, author of&#160;Whip Smart&#160;and Abandon Me&#160; &#160; &ldquo;Dark, frank, and tender, Girl in Pieces keeps the reader electrified for its entire journey. You&rsquo;re so uncertain if Charlie will heal, so fully immersed in hoping she does.&rdquo;&mdash;Michelle Wildgen, author of Bread and Butter and You&rsquo;re Not You "Girl in Pieces has the breath of life; every character in it is fully alive. Charlie Davis' complexities are drawn with great understanding and subtlety."-Charles Baxter, author of National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love "Charlie Davis has been damaged and abused after several years of living on the streets, but she is fiercely resilient.&#160; Though it will appeal to readers of Ellen Foster, Speak, and Girl, Interrupted, Girl in Pieces is an entirely original work, compulsively readable and deeply human."-Julie Schumacher, author the New York Times bestseller Dear Committee Members "In Glasgow&rsquo;s riveting debut novel, readers are pulled close to Charlie&rsquo;s raw, authentic emotions as she strains to make a jagged path through her new life. Love and trust prove difficult, and Charlie&rsquo;s judgment is not well honed, but her will to survive is glorious."&mdash;Booklist, Starred review "[Readers] will find themselves driven to see Charlie&rsquo;s story through. They will better understand a world that often makes no sense to outsiders. Glasgow&rsquo;s debut novel is a dark read, but the engaging writing will win an audience for [Glasgow]."-VOYA, Starred review "Heartbreaking and thick with emotion,...[Girl in Pieces is] for avid fans of Jennifer Niven&rsquo;s All the Bright Places or Susanna Kaysen&rsquo;s Girl Interrupted."-SLJ

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow, read by Julia Whelan, Kathleen Glasgow

From my favorite movie as a little kid, Cinderella. So this is love the french version.

Cinderella - So this is love (french)

Fallin For Ya by Grace Phipps - Slowed

A short novella based on the beloved characters from the graphic novel Heartstopper and Alice Oseman’s debut novel Solitaire, which was praised as ‘The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age’ by The Times. 

 Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?

CHARLIE: “I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me.”

NICK: “Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in the same room on different laptops. Text each other from different rooms. Make out. Make food. Make drinks. Get drunk. Talk. Argue. Laugh. Maybe we're kind of boring. But that’s fine with us.”

Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie are the perfect couple – that they’re inseparable. But now Nick is leaving for university, and Charlie will be left behind at Sixth Form. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question – they’re ‘Nick and Charlie’ for God’s sake!

But as the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie question whether their love is strong enough to survive being apart. Or are they delaying the inevitable? Because everyone knows that first loves rarely last forever…

Nick and Charlie, By Alice Oseman, Read by Huw Parmenter and Sam Newton

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