BrainStorm BookCast

When Alice, Georgie and Lia leave after school revision late on All Hallows Eve, they don't expect things to take a turn for a worse as they walk through their local churchyard... That’s all we have time for today, but more chapters are coming soon… If you have any feedback, or questions you’d like to ask us, please email brainstormbookcast@gmail.com or tweet us at @b_s_bookcast.

This episode we discuss:  - Classification in books  - Darker themes in YA  - eBooks vs. Audio-books vs. Paperbacks  - Comfort books and beach reads  - How much description do you really need? And much, much more! Today we chat with the wonderful bloggers Raimy (of 'Readaraptor') and Lily (of 'The Whispering of the Pages') about sex, drugs and rock & roll in YA, with discussions on all aspects of reading! Join us next episode as we chat to our first international guest Ellie! http://thewhisperingofthepages.blogspot.com/ (Lily's blog) http://www.readaraptor.co.uk/ (Raimy's blog)

Topics for this episode: - Issy’s opinion on last week’s topics - swearing in teen books - Pottermore discussion! - Although a lot had to be edited out :( - Same-sex pairings and one-true pairings (Abi’s fangirl discussions!) - How much description do you really need? - Multi-narrator books - Character ages (do they affect our judgement?) - Stereotypes ……………………………………………………………………………………………… If you have any topics you would like to hear discussed on future episodes, please feel free to contact us in the following ways: You can email us at brainstormbookcast@gmail.com , follow us on twitter as @b_s_bookcast, @G30rg13_R, @Gail__Abi or @Issy_Rich And while you’re at it, please leave us a review and follow us on brainstormbookcast.podomatic.com or leave a comment on the post about the episode on my blog diaryoftheaverageteenbooklove.blogspot.com The music on this episode is Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds. We do not own the rights for this song.

This is the first in a series of mini episodes we will be recording inbetween the hour long episodes. In this episode we are discussing new book releases (courtesy of ibbookblogging.net) and what we're reading. ---------------------------------- Contact us at brainstormbookcast@gmail.com or find the official podcast twitter account at @B_S_BookCast. Find the 2 hosts of this episode as @G30rg13_R and @Gail__Abi.

This is Part 1 of an extra special 2+ hour show to mark Issy's first episode, and because we simply have so much to discuss! - Issy's welcome to the show! - Mary Sue characters - Bad role models in teen literature - Religion in books - R-Patz discussion - Is Dystopian the new paranormal romance? and much more! .......................................................... If you have any questions, comments, queries or theories please feel free to email us at brainstormbookcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter as @B_S_BookCast. Follow each of the hosts on twitter as @G30rg13_R, @Gail__Abi and @Issy_Rich.

Topics for the episode: - New book releases - Discussion – swearing in teen books - Love triangles – do we really need them? - Genres we love, and genres we hate - This month’s random read - Queen of teen 2012 – our thoughts - POVs (Male/female/multi, and our thoughts) - Changing from Books to TV If you have any thoughts about the episode, queries or theories, please contact us at brainstormbookcast@gmail.com or find us on twitter at @B_S_BookCast. If you really want to contact us individually, feel free to follow us on Twitter @G30rg13_R and @Gail__Abi. @Issy_Rich was going to join us, but (yet again) we couldn’t contact her. But don’t worry, school is back tomorrow and we’ll force her to join us. By the way, about 24 minutes in there is some static which we’ve unsuccessfully tried to get rid of, so turn the volume down a tad in that section! Also, if there are any embarrassing sections which we ought to have edited out, please contact us with the time stamp so we can edit.

Topics for discussion: - New book releases - Discussion – FanFiction - Ranting about… Books we’ve read and hated - Random books we love - Classics – to read or not to read? - Random Reads (meme on blog) - Shout outs to podcasts we love Please note that my laptop fan starts whirring during the episode and I type extremely loudly, so you might hear when I was tweeting during the episode. Also, if there are any anomalies that we failed to edit out of the podcast, please feel free to contact us at: brainstormbookcast@gmail.com or tweet to us at @G30rg13_R or @Gail__Abi. You can follow the podcast itself at… @B_S_BookCast. Feel free to email or tweet us with any queries, theories or constructive criticism.