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I’d known that this tryout was going to be hard, but I had no idea it would be impossible. I mean, basically impossible. I’d spent all summer training, focusing on my reaction speeds just like EJ warned, only to show up and find out that everything had changed. Like, CHANGED. Overnight.

My big competition for goalkeeper, Taylor, got bit this summer, the night of the Fourth of July. She and her brothers were lighting illegal fireworks out on the basketball court, late, after everyone had gone home from the city-sponsored show, and when the cops showed up she ran blindly into the woods toward the park, and that’s where it happened. I didn’t find out until I showed up at tryouts, of course, otherwise I wouldn’t have come, or I would have went out, maybe, for volleyball instead. Because if you’ve seen Teen Wolf (and who hasn’t) you know that no one can beat a werewolf on a court or a field. No one. I looked like an idiot out there.

You’re up @vancityfya

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The Signs as YA Tropes

aries: bromance

taurus: end of the world

gemini: movie montage makeover

cancer: love triangle

leo: elizabeth/darcy (hate --> love) romance

virgo: college admissions essay

libra: fake boyfriend romance

scorpio: missing girls

saggitarius: summer after high school

capricorn: twist ending

aquarius: manic pixie dream girl

pisces: mysterious loner dude

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Dave used to be our token regular male member, but since Charlie was born in May we now have "The Other Boy."

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Here is the invitation for our party! ^_^ 

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Audiobook Rec’d

The Raven Cycle read by Will Patton An easy favorite. Will Patton has such a great voice and does a range of Virginia accents for the series. Plus, Maggie wrote the music for the audiobooks! Every time Becky starts an audiobook with a blah reader she just decides to listen to The Raven Boys instead.

Graceling read by Full Cast Audio It’s been a few years but a lot of us remember Graceling as a superb audiobook. It’s read with a full cast as well as fun sound effects, like horses hooves beating.

Artemis Fowl read by Nathaniel Parker Karey loved the Artemis Fowl series on audio. Nathaniel Parker does a great job on all the character voices, especially Artemis as he grows up through the series.

Illuminae read by Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, and Johnathan McClain with a full cast Sometimes when you listen to a book that has a lot of visual components you worry about losing important parts of the story, but the additions they make in this production match the cool visual parts of the printed book. For example, the retracted parts of the files in the book are bleeped out in the audio version. The voice of the AI and all the characters are so good, and mix of sound effects creates a unique atmosphere for this series.

Ready Player One read by Will Wheaton Will Wheaton is a good character reader, but Megan particularly liked the nerdy meta-ness of him reading the reference to himself in the book.

The Dresden Files read by James Marsters Not YA, but the reader makes it YA adjacent. Being read by Buffy alum, sexy-voiced James Marsters, is a big plus for this audiobook.

I Hunt Killers read by Charlie Thurston “Just like cutting chicken” will echo in your mind after you listen to this terrifying audiobook!

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A Killer Party

FYA Vancouver held our Riverdale-themed mixology party Saturday, July 8.

Here’s Megan and Becky channeling Betty and Jughead. Megan is drinking our version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and Becky is drinking Mysterious Loner Dude.

We made 8 different cocktails. Here they are:

MYSTERIOUS LONER DUDE Muddled Sour Cherries Burnside Bourbon Juniper Dry Soda

ILLUMINAE Whipped Vodka Peach Schnapps Orange Juice Grenadine Spill Glitter Rim

MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL Lavender Dry Soda Elderflower Liqueur Gin Raspberry Garnish

SERAPHINA Dragonfruit Vodka Cranberry Juice Muddled Raspberries

LUNA LOVEGOOD Fruit Stacked Crazy Straw Lemon “Glasses” Dragonfruit Vodka Muddled Blueberries Juniper Dry Soda Blue Food Coloring

Our M.O. for this was to choose the strangest things we had, mix them together, and color them blue for Ravenclaw. The result was a drink that tasted like a Squeeze-It with alcohol in it. Yet, like Luna, it gets better over time. When we went back and tasted it again at the end it was better than when it was fresh.

STIEFVATER Lemonade Strawberry Daiquiri Mix Vodka in a to-go cup

Inspired by this list “5 Signs of a Maggie” story in The Curiosities. Angst (vodka), cars (to-go cups), sarcasm (lemonade), kissing (strawberry daiquiri mix), geniuses (us). We don’t actually condone drinking and driving, obviously.

BETTY AND VERONICA Mountain Huckleberry Ice Cream Kahlua Chocolate Syrup blended - just like Pop’s!

GRASSHOPPER JUNGLE Whipped Vodka Limeade Green Food Coloring

Overall favorite was probably Seraphina. Becky really liked Mysterious Loner Dude, but the others don’t really care for whisky. The Stiefvater was very good, the most like something you’d actually drink. :)

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