Episode 122 – A Discovery of Witches

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Books, Arts

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

When Gina joined us to read A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, we were startled to discover that this book has way more than just witches! This book also has vampires, daemons, and plenty of #herbs. Join us for a relationship between a witch with tenure and a vampire who is 15 times older than Edward Cullen!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about a woman's love for vampires and herbs so you don't have to.
0:18.2	I'm Kate.
0:18.9	And I'm Renata.
0:20.0	And for this episode, we read a discovery of
0:22.9	witches by Deborah Harkness. Joining us to discuss this fantasy of academia is somewhat
0:30.1	perpetual motion machine, Gina Donovan. Hello. Hi, Gina. Hi. Thanks for joining us and bringing this completely 500% on-brand book to the table.
0:44.7	You're welcome.
0:47.2	This book is one.
0:48.5	People had suggested this before, and I was like, oh, I thought that was good, though.
0:52.7	Like, I heard it was good.
1:10.9	And then, and then Gina was like, no, I thought that was good, though. Like, I heard it was good. And then, and then, um, and then Gino was like, no, we should read it. And then I got like one chapter in. And I was like, oh, my God. Like, I'm not saying it's not good, but it is, like, reading this made me feel like a Stefan sketch from Saturday Night Libraries. This has everything.
1:16.4	Witches and vampires and demons and herbs and time travel and sex paperwork.
1:21.1	And libraries and horses and wolves.
1:24.6	Accessories.
1:25.9	A cat. It has a lot.
1:27.4	It has a lot in it.
1:29.7	It's...
1:29.8	Lesbian witches.
1:32.2	It was not like, compared to some of the books that we read recently, aka James Patterson,
1:38.4	it wasn't bad.
1:40.0	I mean, even compared to most of the books we read, it's not like bad, bad, but it is fucking wild.
1:49.4	And it's funny because, like, I've read the other books, and the other books are, like, so much worse.
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