Episode 232 – The Woman In Me
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
We finished our adventures with the Time Traveler’s Wife but decided to linger in the 2000s for awhile longer. Friend of the Show (and the Internet’s Best Friend) Margaret H. Willison joined us to discuss Britney Spears’s memoir The Woman In Me. Listen to this episode instead of listening to the music of Justin Timberlake!
Content warning: This book contains abuse, abortion, disordered eating, and all the other stuff you’d assume.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Miss American Dream” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
Coming up next: Bests of 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the cancellation of Justin Timberlake so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.5 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.6 | And for this episode, we read The Woman in Me by Brittany Spears. |
| 0:23.1 | Joining us to discuss this tale of Brittany Freed is a putative winner of the imaginary reality TV show America's next top best friend, Margaret H. Willison. |
| 0:33.9 | I made up that title, but it still makes me so happy. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, you guys. |
| 0:41.5 | You made it up, but then you earned it. |
| 0:42.7 | You deserve it. |
| 0:43.2 | It's true. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:44.3 | I agree. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome back to the show, Margaret. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm so honored to be here. |
| 0:56.6 | I also want to share a small mystery resolved that you have a part to play in, Margaret. |
| 0:57.8 | Oh, I'm so excited. |
| 1:05.2 | So our last recorded episode was our Patreon choice episode, The Time Traveler's Wife. |
| 1:10.0 | And we, at the top of the show, we were like is sort of random i'm so curious like why this was |
| 1:12.4 | such a runaway hit in our poll you know i was like it's kind of an older book i don't really |
| 1:17.8 | understand why like i really thought the patrons would make us read like calling hoover or something and |
| 1:22.5 | i was like that's random and then we heard from many people that the reason they wanted us to read the book is because |
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