Episode 153 – Freeze Tag
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Maybe it would be easier to practice social distancing if you knew that someone could literally freeze you solid with a single touch? It’s a theory worth exploring, as our pandemic edition of Flashback Summer continues with Freeze Tag, a Point Horror title by the 90s queen of teen thrillers, Caroline B. Cooney. With our guest Trina (@TrinaMareena) we dug into the story of the ultimate ice queen, and made an important stop along the way to discuss the relative fanciness of Pizza Hut. Stay frosty!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Point Horror: 25 years on, let us praise a forgotten ’90s craze” by Beth Rodgers
“HBO Max to Develop Anthology Series Based on ‘Point Horror’ Books” by Joe Otterson
Don’t Point That Horror at Me podcast
The Devil’s Elbow (Point Horror recaps)
Candy Pairing: Kait says a Popsicle, Renata says a packet of hot chocolate with mini marshmallows, Trina says frozen gummy bears.
Coming up next: Redwall by Brian Jacques.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about a girl who should absolutely not let it go, so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:23.2 | And I'm Kate. And for this episode this episode we read Freeze Tag by Carolyn B. Cooney joining us to discuss this chilling tale is Trina Coven member who is the |
| 0:31.8 | deciding vote about whether or not this book's antagonist can join the coven. Welcome, Trina. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:40.7 | Just to be clear, because we do have multiple covens in play at all times on this podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | Trina was a member of my Peace Corps coven, which I know I've talked about how my Peace Corps group all sort of descended into a weird twilight fervor and started calling |
| 0:55.2 | ourselves Coven and Trina was in that one. |
| 0:58.5 | It was very exciting time. |
| 1:02.2 | By the way, Trina, did you hear that Midnight Sun is coming out? |
| 1:06.2 | I did. I don't know what to think about it. |
| 1:09.7 | Only excitement, but we'll talk about that later. |
| 1:14.5 | For now, welcome to another flashback summer episode where we revisit the books of our childhood. |
| 1:22.9 | And I have to say when we were talking to Trina about what book to read, she sent this list |
| 1:28.6 | and she just put freeze tag and I was kind of like, I don't know what that is. I'm going to skip |
| 1:33.0 | this in favor of other things on the list. And then I don't remember why we looked it up and I was |
| 1:40.0 | like, oh, you didn't say by Carolyn B. Cooney, and that's a whole different situation |
| 1:44.3 | to read a Carolyn B. Cooney book versus just something called Free's Tag, which I hadn't heard of. |
| 1:50.7 | Correct. |
| 1:51.6 | Carolyn B. Cooney, prolific, iconic, really, really wild. Just always in for a real wild time |
| 2:00.1 | with Carolyn B. Cooney. Yeah. If I had known |
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