Episode 101 – The Ghost in The Third Row
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We’re launching our third Flashback Summer with one of Kait’s most formative childhood books. Author Becky Allen (@allreb) joined us to discuss The Ghost in the Third Row by Bruce Coville, a middle-grade mystery that’s aged surprisingly well, much like a slightly haunted historic theater. Join us for a tween theatrical drama with a higher body count and more satisfying emotional resolution than the Phantom of the Opera!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Ten Books that Terrified Us As Kids (But We Read Them Anyway)
Candy Pairing: Becky says Choward’s violet mints, Kait says yogurt covered raisins, Renata says Dots.
Coming up next: Ramona and her Mother by Beverly Cleary.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Phantom of the Opera Jr. so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read The Ghost in the Third Row by Bruce |
| 0:22.4 | Coville. Joining us to discuss this first entry in Flashback Summer 2018 is Young Adult |
| 0:28.6 | Author and Lifelong Bruce Coval fan girl, Becky Allen. Hello, Becky. Hello. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:36.5 | Yes, what she said. |
| 0:39.5 | I never knew that owning about 50 Bruce Covell books was going to come in handy like this. |
| 0:46.7 | Yeah, so this is Flashback Summer. |
| 0:49.0 | This is the third year in a row that we are doing this. |
| 0:52.0 | And if you are new to the show, this is the time of year |
| 0:55.3 | where instead of focusing on more recent-ish bestsellers or books we've never heard of, |
| 1:02.1 | we take a couple months off and revisit favorites of ours from our youth. |
| 1:08.7 | They are not necessarily bad books. |
| 1:10.8 | They're just books that we, you know, |
| 1:12.7 | fondly remember reading when we were younger |
| 1:14.7 | and are interested in |
| 1:16.4 | revisiting now that we're older |
| 1:18.3 | just to see how they hold up |
| 1:20.8 | and how other people enjoy them. |
| 1:24.7 | And I don't know. |
| 1:25.8 | I don't know what we do, |
| 1:27.0 | except for not have to read shitty |
| 1:28.8 | books for three months I know this is such a such a sweet balm to my soul after |
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