Welcome to Season 2 Episode 25, where we cover Chapters 34-39 of The Dream Thieves!

Ronan puts the dreamed Camaro keys to the test by seeking some street racing Zen with Joseph Kavinsky, but gets a collision of epic proportions instead. Meanwhile a different, but no less destructive, type of collision is happening at the Gansey mansion between Adam and RCG3. Looks like lots of things are going to end up broken tonight! We also talk about the fastest cars we’ve ever driven, how street racing relates to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and the perfect TV show visuals. Shannon calls Ronan “bro”, Kavinsky is weirdly compared to a white knight rescuing a damsel, and Nievita rants about the legality of abandoning a car (not to mention nightmarish bodies) on the side of the road in Virginia.

LISTENER QUESTIONS: Instead of a Deep Dive this time, we answered listener questions from approx. the 1:05:42 minute mark to 1:19:42, depending on your player)

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6/6/19-- Ravin’ Girls S2 Episode 26, covering chapters 40-43 of The Dream Thieves
6/20/19-- Ravin' Girls S2 Episode 27, covering chapters 44-49 of The Dream Thieves
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Links to Articles, Websites, and Other Discussions:

Walt Whitman’s I Sing The Body Electric: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45472/i-sing-the-body-electric
Bradbury’s short story collection, I Sing The Body Electric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric_(short_story_collection)
Rush Hour movie quote “Do You Understand”: https://youtu.be/0Rl9Cxc7uZA
Maggie reading Bradbury: https://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/183238838061/why-has-no-one-ever-pushed-this-book-into-my
Original Dream Thieves drag racing plot: https://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/134729315676/ive-been-asked-many-times-to-share-some-of-my
Five Finger Death Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Finger_Death_Punch
Glock 27: https://themmacommunity.com/threads/anyone-had-a-gun-polished-to-mirror-finish.28214/
Abandoned cars in Virginia: https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/abandoned.html
Maggie and literary devices in her work: https://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/54960164915/red-rage-ocean-longing-literary
Dramatic Irony, as represented by “Ronan never took my car”: https://bookishnerdhero.tumblr.com/post/172023524744/the-whole-deal-might-work-on-ronan-adam
Maggie reads dialogue aloud: https://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/164385804876/how-do-you-make-your-dialogue-sound-like-real
The scientific definition of love: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/
“First Knight” Arthurian movie: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/first-knight-1995
Love Hurts by Nazareth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDZBW-1P04
Piece of my Heart by Janis Joplin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0f5ZG9LG6k
St. Joan of Arc: https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=295
St. Dymphna: https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=222
Charles Perrault’s literary fairytale, Donkeyskin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkeyskin
Deerskin by Robin McKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerskin_(novel)

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Acknowledgements:
The Raven Cycle and all affiliated properties (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and The Raven King) are copyright Maggie Stiefvater and Scholastic, Inc. The Ravin’ Girls reference these properties for the purpose of literary analysis.

Intro and Outro music by Damiano Baldoni, used under CC Attribution License: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_Baldoni/Lost_Dinasty/
The original tracks have been edited for the podcast.