Episode 160 – Wait Till Helen Comes
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
It’s spooky season, so we revisited a classic of our childhoods: Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn. It was a nice change of pace to read a competently-written book, so we had to spend most of our time raging against the poor parenting on display in this book. Our guest Rebecca Mahoney (@cafecliche)’s debut novel, The Valley and the Flood, comes out in February 2021, so listen to this episode while pre-ordering your copy! PS: Sorry for some extra sound issues on this episode. It was a ghost probably?
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Wait Till Helen Comes movie trailer
Candy Pairing: Kait says a candy apple, Rebecca says Tootsie Roll pops, Renata says sour apple Jolly Ranchers.
Coming up next: The Wig, The Bitch, and The Meltdown by Jay Manuel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about negligent parenting so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.8 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.2 | And for this episode, we read Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn. |
| 0:25.1 | Joining us to discuss this classic middle grade ghost story is Rebecca Mahoney, author of The Valley and the Flood, which will be out on February 23rd, 2021. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome, Rebecca. |
| 0:37.4 | Thank you so much for having me back. Yes, thanks for joining us again. |
| 0:41.6 | Yes. You may remember Becky from our Jack the Ripper episode. I can't remember the whole |
| 0:47.4 | title of that book. It was eight miles long. Yeah, it had like two subtitles. Like, |
| 0:51.6 | yeah. I believe it was Jack the Riper, Collin, Case Close, dash portrait of a killer. Yeah. I believe it was Jack the Riper, Colin Case Close, |
| 0:55.2 | dash portrait of a killer. |
| 0:58.4 | Or the other way. |
| 1:00.3 | Portrait of a Killer, case closed, |
| 1:01.9 | yes. |
| 1:03.5 | And then Five Nights at Freddy's, |
| 1:05.8 | the Silver Eyes, the book that none of us |
| 1:07.8 | expected to like, and we did |
| 1:09.9 | genuinely find enjoyable. Yeah, Five Nights at Freddy is the video game colon, the book that none of us expected to like, and we did genuinely find enjoyable. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, Five Nets and Freddy is the video game, colon the book, colon the Silver Eyes, parentheses, |
| 1:18.3 | better than it sounds like. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah, so I'm two for three on discussing good books with you guys. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah, and I feel like we should say, I mean, |
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