Episode 178 – Halloween Rain
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Flashback Summer has moved past our time with the Baby-Sitters Club to revisit another enterprising teen girl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We read a vintage Buffy tie-in novel, Halloween Rain by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, with our guest THE Meredith Goldstein, the Boston Globe’s Love Letters columnist and author of books like Things That Grow and Can’t Help Myself. This book may contradict established Buffy canon, but at least it also has some very dated pop culture references in it! Play this episode over the sound system at the Bronze.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Sunnydale Mall on the Buffyverse wiki
“Mandolin Rain” by Bruce Hornsby
Coming up next: Slayer by Kiersten White.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Buffy the Pumpkin King Slayer so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.2 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.4 | And for this episode, we read Halloween Rain by Christopher |
| 0:23.3 | Golden and Nancy Holder. Joining us to discuss this vintage Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tye-in novel |
| 0:29.7 | is conflicted Buffy fan, Love Letters podcast host, and writer Meredith Goldstein. Hello. |
| 0:37.3 | Hi, thank you for having me. Thank you for coming back as always. host and writer Meredith Goldstein. Hello. Hello. Hi. |
| 0:37.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you for coming back as always. |
| 0:43.4 | Meredith modestly just listed herself as writer, but she has written great books that we |
| 0:48.2 | have recommended here before. |
| 0:49.9 | And I wanted to give another shout out to her most recent book, Things That Grow, |
| 0:56.0 | because I had moderated an event for Meredith at Porter Square Books for a book release |
| 1:02.6 | earlier this year because it was virtual. |
| 1:04.9 | My mom went. |
| 1:06.0 | She was so excited about it. |
| 1:08.1 | And she, like, read the book and loved it meredith and then she she texted me she |
| 1:14.3 | was like renata did you see that the meredith goldstein like commented on your instagram post |
| 1:20.1 | and i was like yeah like all capital v and i was oh yeah, we're like friends. And she was like, |
| 1:29.3 | I mean, and I had V Renata hosting my launch. So I am the lucky one. You have to tell her. |
| 1:38.7 | I think we can agree that we're all hashtag blessed. Exactly. Very true. Yeah, I was like, Mom, like, Meredith's been on the podcast before. |
| 1:46.3 | I mean, listens to it. |
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