50. The Cry of the Icemark - Stuart Hill
Remember when Ciara didn't swear on this podcast? Ah, ancient memories. For the FIFTIETH EVER EPISODE of Forever Young Adult, Aífe and Ciara discuss The Cry of The Icemark by Stuart Hill. This cool as hell book won the first ever Waterstones Children's Book Award back in 2005, won the 2006 Highlands Children's Book award for Long Novels in 2006, and won an eternal place in Aífe's heard when she read it at age 12. Digressions include the nonexistence of viking fireplaces, the great funko pop crisis of 2021, talking leopards and why we hate them, reason 49856 that libraries are the BEST, Content Warnings for: parental death, imperialism, violence in the context of war, brief mentions child death and cancer. Apologies for the audio quality, microphones are finicky creatures. -- If you enjoyed this episode, consider subscribing to forever young adult podcast for more of our thoughts on Young Adult literature, coming of age literature! You can have two episodes a month delivered into your lovely ears for FREE. You can keep tabs on upcoming books and give us recommendations on our social media: www.Twitter.com/foreverYApod www.Instagram.com/foreverYApodcast www.goodreads.com/foreveryapod Email us at 4everYoungAdult (at) gmail.com Check out our patreon on www.patreon.com/foreverYAPod to throw us a few coins, check out our rewards, and show your appreciation/ire as applicable! Theme music by Kate Stewart. We love reviews! And recommendations! And attention! Thanks for listening :-)