E.L. Konigsburg's A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

Teen Creeps

Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katai

Arts, Book, Club, Social, Comedy, Books

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week Kelly and Katai read A PROUD TASTE FOR SCARLET AND MINIVER by E.L. Konigsburg, the fictionalized story of Eleanor of Aquitaine's life as she waits for her second husband, Henry II, in heaven. They talk whether it's real, cringe heaven fanfic, the best form of government, everybody hates John, bad cult of personality teachers, and more!

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0:00.0	This week on the podcast, E.L. Conigsburgs, a proud taste for Scarlet and Miniper.
0:18.3	Hello, welcome to Teen Creeps, the podcast that discusses why I Pulp Fiction.
0:22.1	I'm one of your host, Lindsay K. Tai.
0:23.5	I'm another one of your host, Kelly Nugent.
0:25.1	And today we are talking about a proud taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Conigsberg.
0:32.2	A book that I had to read for school as a child.
0:37.3	That would have been a fun one.
0:38.2	And I was obsessed with.
0:40.9	And on reread, I went, oh, there's not that much here.
0:43.4	No, there really isn't a ton.
0:45.2	But I can see why as a kid, if it's a required school thing, you'd be like, oh, actually,
0:52.3	like, I like this.
0:53.1	This is fun.
0:54.1	And also it's like, you're already learning about the actual history. Yeah.
0:58.4	So it just adds to that. And then, I mean, like, if you can get obsessed with Greek
1:03.0	myths, you can get obsessed with, like, this book. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is definitely,
1:08.8	like, in the pipeline of, like, like, being obsessed with like ancient Egypt. Yeah. Greek myths like this. Because it's also very early. English history. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I was surprised. I mean, okay. Is this book real? Like I know it exists, but like is it like, is it like, is it like real? Like is it, are we real?
1:28.0	Are we real?
1:28.8	Is this happening?
1:29.4	Wait.
1:31.6	You mean, like, is it the events?
1:33.8	How much of it is historic?
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