Episode 220 – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
It’s–hey, calm down, no, put down your pitchforks, we’re not calling Judy Blume a “worst” bestseller! Absolutely not, just, please, let me finish this intro–it’s Flashback Summer! The time when we chill out and revisit childhood favorites, even when they are iconic classics that absolutely do not match the name of our podcast. We were joined by writer and comedian Sarah Aswell (@seaswell), also known as the Scary Mommy behind Scary Mommy Book Club, to discuss Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by the one and only Judy Blume. Listen to this episode while increasing your bust!
Readers advisory: Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the preteen sensations so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.8 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.8 | And for this episode, we read, Are You There, God? |
| 0:20.7 | It's me, Margaret, by Judy Blume. |
| 0:23.3 | Joining us to discuss the SpawnCon for the Private Lady Company is writer and comedian Sarah Aswell, |
| 0:30.4 | senior editor at Scary Mommy, who runs the Scary Mommy Book Club. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, Sarah. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm so excited you could join us. |
| 0:40.6 | The Scary Mommy herself is here with us. |
| 0:44.8 | And I have to say to our listeners who may not be mommy is like, I'm not a mommy except |
| 0:53.6 | to D'Warte and he's a cat. But the Scary Mommy |
| 0:56.3 | Book Club is truly has great picks. It's a great group because Sarah's in charge of it, I think, |
| 1:05.2 | is why. Like, because I like, when you took the job and you were like, everyone to join Scary Mommy |
| 1:09.8 | because I'm the scary mommy now |
| 1:11.4 | I was like okay but in my head I was kind of like I'm going to mute this group because like I'm not a I'm not a mommy |
| 1:17.5 | and I don't want to read like mommy books but then I was like oh this is cool like it's a cool book club and |
| 1:22.2 | this is not SpineCon this is my sincere opinion of the Scary Mommy Book Club. Putting it out there. |
| 1:30.2 | And no, there's tons of people who are not Mommies in the Scary Mommy Book Club. It's related to |
| 1:34.7 | our website, which is parenting related, but the book club is really for human beings who like |
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