Episode 181 – The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This is our seventh anniversary episode! We’ve been podcasting for much longer than the titular character of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner has been a vampire. We’d been putting off reading this Twilight novella because we suspected there wouldn’t be too much to talk about, and well, we were kinda right. Still, we had a great time talking to our all-time most frequent guest Carrie again. Plus, we experienced some of the Friendship Challenges from the Twilight: Eclipse card game, and I think it’s safe to say we all grew from the experience. Listen to this episode while politely petitioning Stephenie Meyer to write another book! #WheresFred
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes:

When this novella was released in 2010, Stephenie Meyer pledged $1 from the sale of each copy to go towards earthquake relief in Haiti, and ended up donating a total of $1.5 million.
As there was another earthquake in Haiti, and inspired by SMeyer’s charitable example, this month we donated $150 of our Patreon proceeds to Partners in Health, an NGO that does a lot of good work in Haiti and elsewhere.
Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Bree Tanner’ Raises $1.5 Million for Red Cross by Amy Wilkinson
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Coming up next: Michelle Remembers by Lawrence Pazder & Michelle Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about a baby vampire so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.6 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.0 | And for this episode, we read The Short Second Life of |
| 0:23.6 | Brey Tanner by Stephanie Meyer. Joining us to discuss this Twilight novella for our seventh anniversary |
| 0:29.6 | episode is Twilight Enthusiast Nearing the End of Her Patient, Carrie. Welcome back, Carrie. Hello. |
| 0:38.6 | Carrie, it's fitting that you are nearing the end of your patients with Twilight because we are |
| 0:43.0 | really nearing the end of Twilight Canon. |
| 0:46.5 | Like unless something new comes out, I think this is the absolute like bottom of the barrel. |
| 0:50.8 | It certainly was that. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah. So this is our seventh anniversary, like Renada said, |
| 0:59.4 | we did the math in advance this time. Yeah. If you listened last time, I confidently said the |
| 1:05.1 | wrong number and then we had a, we went down a whole wormhole about what year it is and how long we've been doing |
| 1:11.9 | this and you can just go back and listen to that if you want but this is our seventh anniversary |
| 1:16.6 | for real we started in 2014 it's 2021 I yeah so and they're and we're still here sometimes. |
| 1:28.3 | Someone asked me not too long ago, like a new person who I was meeting was like, |
| 1:32.7 | oh, like when did you start podcasting? |
| 1:34.5 | And I said, oh, I think we started in 2014 in like September and they were shocked that |
| 1:40.0 | we were still consistently doing it, which I guess makes sense. |
| 1:43.4 | I guess the majority of podcasts |
| 1:44.9 | peter out and fail pretty quickly because it's a lot more work, I think, than people think. |
| 1:50.3 | But yeah, it was kind of like, yeah, I am capable of being a sustaining part of something |
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