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I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

Put in your fangs and roll on your body, glitter friends.

Today we're throwing it back to 2005 with Stephanie Meyer's blockbuster teen vampire romance, Twilight. Before we jump in, though, if you're enjoying the show so far, we'd appreciate it if you would share it with friends and leave us a rating, a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening. Helps us grow, and that's the point here. We're very lucky to have with us today.

Vanessa Diaz, our managing editor of Book Riot, and Kelly Jensen, senior editor of Book Riot,

who both have perspectives on Twilight to bring.

Vanessa, I'd say, is the closest to a fan.

I'm doing air quotes here in my mind.

You can't see those.

And then Kelly knows more about

YAA than all the three of us put together. So here from historical, cultural context when it comes

to young adult literature. We're going to get into, you may be surprised to see this in your

feed that we're going to talk about Twilight. And I want to talk about that. That's the first thing

we're going to do here at the beginning.

Rebecca, let's see when I talk for a minute says as we conceive the show.

And this really goes back to my initial thing I did 10 years ago, the zero to well-read idea,

of one of the things I value, your definition of value read maybe different listener.

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