Episode 130 – Dealing With Dragons

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

As Flashback Summer draws to a close for another year, our friend Kelsey joined us to return to a feminist favorite: Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede. The three of us all loved this book as tweens and were thrilled to report that it holds up. Listen to this episode while cleaning your dragon's cave.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the importance of clean living so you don't have to.
0:16.5	I'm Kate.
0:17.4	And I'm Renata.
0:18.6	And for this episode, we read Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Reedy.
0:23.2	Joining us to discuss this iconic feminist fantasy is teacher and magic sword enthusiast Kelsey.
0:30.5	Hello.
0:31.9	Hello.
0:33.0	Hi, Kelsey.
0:34.1	Thank you for joining us.
0:36.0	I just want to, before we get too deep into anything,
0:40.2	feminist fantasy is a really hard phrase to say, and as I was looking at it, it just occurred
0:46.4	to me that it could easily be portmanteaued into Feminasty Yes
0:54.6	Which is also what the Throwing Shade podcast refers to
0:58.8	It's lady listeners as
1:00.7	But I think you could call this a Feminasty book
1:04.3	And I would enjoy it
1:05.3	Although it's kind of the opposite of nasty
1:07.6	It's very clean
1:08.5	It is
1:10.5	And I want to address right at the top that opposite of nasty. It's very clean. It is.
1:17.9	And I want to address right at the top that since my childhood, I have been pronouncing her last name, Reed, and I listen to the audio book of this, and they definitely said
1:24.0	reedy every time they said her name, and now I feel lied to by my child brain.
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