Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about a girl and her psychic connection to dolphins so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read A Ring of Endless Light by

Madeline Langall joining us to discuss this 1981 Newberry Honor winner is YA author and

fantasy dolphin apologist Annie Cardi hello Annie yay thanks for having me yeah welcome back thanks

it's good to be talking about a book that has a lot of stuff

in it, but is not total garbage. No, and thank you for that segue into introducing the concept

of flashback summer in case listeners are new around here, or if you were just like, are you saying that the psychic dolphins are worst?

Because no, I'm not.

I would never.

Flashback Summer is, of course, the time when we gives ourselves a little break from reading such bad books and just try to like revisit some childhood favorites and so

these books tend to be much more about just nostalgia and maybe sometimes pointing out how

how buck wild these books are but we are certainly not implying that this or any other

flashback summer book is bad. Yeah.

However, it does have a lot of content warnings.

It does a lot of content warnings.

Before we get to them, I do also want to say, I feel like, I can't remember if we did Flashback Summer this way last year as well.

But kind of in the past, we've picked books.

Last summer was Summer of Babysitters Club. books. Last summer was summer a babysitters club.

Right.

Last night was babysitters club.

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