Episode 14 – The Shunning
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2015
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Becca put on their forbidden satin gowns and read The Shunning by Beverly Lewis. It’s the ferhoodling story of a mildly rebellious Amish girl whose worldly desires eventually lead to her getting shunned by the community. Before they get around to all that, though, they have a lot of quilts to make and desserts to describe. If your religious traditions permit you to listen to podcasts, join us today!
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Footnotes: Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel
Candy pairing: Becca says Ativan, Kait says buttermints, Renata says disappointing apple pie.
Coming up next: Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about satin worship so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.9 | And for this episode, we've read The Shunning by Beverly Lewis, which is an Amish sort of romance novel. |
| 0:26.1 | Joining us to discuss all of the sort ofs in this book is Hermit slash Neer-do-Well Rebecca, |
| 0:33.6 | who also happens to be my roommate. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello. |
| 0:45.4 | The other reason that Rebecca is on this podcast with us is because when we were randomly obsessed with Amish romance novels one weekend several months ago, she said that she would |
| 0:50.8 | read any book that was $2 on Amazon. So we're going to get some mileage out of that. |
| 0:57.6 | Which this book wasn't, by the way. |
| 0:59.1 | This sent me back like $4.50. |
| 1:00.6 | I'll have you know. |
| 1:02.0 | When you say we were obsessed with Amish Roman novels, do you mean you and Becca? |
| 1:06.2 | I mean, you tweeted about them, and then you tweeted a link an Amazon link to I think this book or another |
| 1:13.0 | book by her and then I got like sucked into the whole of reading the summaries of every book |
| 1:20.2 | she's ever written. Oh okay. I was like I don't I mean I'm interested for sure but I would not |
| 1:26.0 | describe myself as having been obsessed |
| 1:28.2 | with Amish romance novels. |
| 1:29.9 | No, it's been a whirlwind weekend reading about every single Amish romance novel and |
| 1:33.9 | then reading them out loud to Becca and then predicting how all of them were going to end |
| 1:38.5 | after reading the summary of the first book of all the trilogies. |
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