07/12/2024
That’s right, this week we’re finally heading into the Dessen-verse. Sarah Dessen is one of Young Adult Literature’s best, and in this episode, we are talking about her 1998 novel 📖Someone Like You. This is a coming-of-age classic, with just about every single high school experience packed into something really heartfelt and special. We’re about to take you back through the nostalgia of being a teenager with falling in love, heartbreak, and arguing with your mom at a Pizza Hut buffet🍕🍕.
This week’s episode has it all: best friend talk, the (somehow common) experience of dating boys who refuse to wear 🧦socks, and lots of advice on what NOT to do when it comes to dating in your teens and twenties. Plus, we introduce the Crush Scale⚖️ into To All the YA lore to keep track of the best (and worst) love interests the genre has to offer.
We found a highly relatable pairing with Sarah Dessen and Taylor Swift, which we explore in a comparative study on Someone Like You and “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” from 💿The Tortured Poets Department💿
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