Episode 154 – Redwall
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In an extremely exciting Flashback Summer, we were joined by S. Jae-Jones (aka JJ, aka the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintersong and Shadowsong) to read Redwall by Brian Jacques! Well, it was exciting to talk to JJ. The book itself was…less exciting, although it did raise some questions about how the food chain works in the world of Redwall. Listen on your next journey by horse cart–quickly, before horses get redacted!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Redwall FAQ
A Complete Redwall Feast Adapted For Your Kitchen
Candy Pairing: JJ says candied chestnuts, Kait says trail mix, Renata says #herbs.
Coming up next: The X-Files: Ground Zero by Kevin J. Anderson.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about nature, red in tooth, and tiny little paw, so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.6 | And for this episode, we read Redwall by Brian Jakes. |
| 0:24.9 | Joining us to discuss this big story about Tiny Adventures is S.J. Jones, otherwise known as JJ, |
| 0:31.7 | New York Times bestselling author and anthropomorphic animal book enthusiast, but not in a creepy way. Hello, JJ. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello. It's really great to be here. I've been listening for a long time, and I was like, |
| 0:45.8 | oh, I'd like to be on and never actually thought you guys would agree. No, we're so excited when |
| 0:51.1 | you mentioned it, like, so happy to have you. Yeah. Um, so this was a book that I had |
| 0:59.8 | submitted for the flashback summer episode. Yes. Um, it's a lot. It's a lot. And I, before we get |
| 1:10.7 | into it, and it is a lot, and we do have a lot |
| 1:12.8 | to say about it, I know, |
| 1:15.1 | and you weren't the only one even |
| 1:16.7 | who submitted it for our call-in episode |
| 1:19.2 | about flashbacks on our favorites. |
| 1:21.3 | Like, Redwell, I know, has a deep |
| 1:23.6 | deep fan base, and |
| 1:26.5 | I never read these as a kid. Um, and my first real, I, like, I definitely |
| 1:33.9 | had seen them when I started working in libraries. And I was just like, okay, this isn't for me, |
| 1:38.6 | but I'll keep them stocked. And, um, then I listened to the overdue episode about them. And this was a while ago, and I intentionally didn't go back and re-listen to it because I wanted to have my own fresh takes as I read it. But I did. The thing I remembered most about the overdue episode is that they did talk about how much food talk there is in this. And then they got really hung up on where the mice were getting |
| 2:00.8 | milk. And as I listened to it, I was like, oh, that's funny. And then I started reading it, I was like, |
| 2:05.9 | no, they are talking about milk so much. And so I just, I know that this isn't a fresh thing, |
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