Episode 192 – Catwoman: Soulstealer
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
What’s new, pussycat? We were joined by Meredith Goldstein, the Boston Globe’s Love Letters columnist and podcaster (and author of Things That Grow), to discuss Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas. It’s a book about DC’s horniest character written by one of the horniest YA authors of our time, so why was this book so focused on serious medical conditions? Listen to this episode while you prepare for your next gala.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Ranking 10 Batman actors from best to worst” by Meredith Goldstein
Coming up next: The Maze Runner by James Dashner.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about horny catwoman so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.4 | And for this episode, we read Catwoman Soul Steeler by Sarah J. Mass. |
| 0:23.4 | Joining us to discuss this DC-Icons Y.A. novel is the Meredith Goldstein, host of the Boston Globe podcast Love Letters, author of the Y.A. novel Things That Grow, an avid reader of books about horny fairies is written by Sarah |
| 0:38.2 | J. Mass, for better or worse. She also loves Batman shit. Hello. Meredith, welcome back. |
| 0:45.2 | Thanks for having me on for this particular book. It's so your brand and I'm so happy |
| 0:51.6 | that you're here. I'm smiling from ear to ear like a joke or one might say. |
| 1:01.2 | Okay, right off the bat, I want to say, I want to say so many things. |
| 1:07.0 | So I don't even know where to start. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, but I will start with our live show announcement. |
| 1:11.7 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:12.6 | We're doing a virtual live show presented by Porter Square Books. |
| 1:17.4 | If you're listening to this episode as it comes out, it's on this Thursday, April 14th at 8 p.m. |
| 1:24.9 | It's free. |
| 1:26.5 | If you go to worst bestsellers.com, there will be a link that you can |
| 1:29.8 | click on to sign up for it. It should be a rollicking good time. I will give a small hint, |
| 1:37.2 | which is at our last Porter Square Books live show. We did perhaps discuss continuing our journey through the Hollis Cinematic Universe. And we may have |
| 1:51.4 | settled on doing just that with our, you know, in-house Hollis expert against her will because we |
| 1:59.1 | keep making her read these books, Margaret H. Wilson. |
| 2:03.4 | I mean, I do have to say by April 10th, I think all of this will be public. |
| 2:06.7 | Yes. |
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