Sharifah and Jenn discuss Christmas dragons, exciting adaptation news, weird trends in pseudonyms, and their most anticipated reads of 2019.

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News Discussed

‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Gets Order For 16 More Episodes From Netflix.

Christmas dragons neighborhood fight!

Stranger Things Season 3 Teaser Teases Episode Titles And An Air Date(and we learned nothing new)

Runaways is back on Hulu! (And, correct, Season 2 has been released simultaneously, so marathon-watching is easy.)

Books Discussed

Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mindby Jackson Ford (Jackson Ford is a pseudonym for a critically acclaimed science fiction author.)

FKA USAby Reed King (Reed King is the pseudonym of a New York Times bestselling author and TV writer.)

The Bird Kingby G Willow Wilson (March 12)

Unravelingby Karen Lord (June 4)

The Light Brigadeby Kameron Hurley (March 19)

The Deepby Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes (June 4);listen to the song here

Gingerbreadby Helen Oyeyemi (Mar 5)The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad (May 14)

The City in the Middle of the Nightby Charlie Jane Anders (Feb 12)

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation(Feb 19) by Various, translated by Ken Liu

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