Episode 246 – Stacey and the Bad Girls
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Hold on to your sock wine, because we’re ending this year’s Flashback Summer with a real rager! We were joined by Courtney Summers, author of I’m The Girl and other rad books, to discuss Stacey and the Bad Girls (Baby-Sitters Club #87) by Ann M. Martin. Listen to this episode on your way to the big U4Me concert!
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Footnotes: Stacey and the Bad Girls on the BSC Fan Wiki
Coming up next: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about teen profiteers so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.8 | And for this episode, we read Babysitters Club number 87, Stacey and the Bad Girls. |
| 0:25.3 | Joining us to discuss this clubless babysitter story is Courtney Summers, |
| 0:29.6 | the New York Times bestselling Master of the Bitch, par electric literature, |
| 0:34.4 | whose books about unlikable female protagonists has earned her |
| 0:38.7 | the praise of a very likable readership. |
| 0:42.2 | Yay, welcome back, Courtney. |
| 0:44.6 | It's so good to be here talking about my favorite babysitting cult with my favorite |
| 0:50.5 | people. |
| 0:51.6 | Let's do this. |
| 0:53.1 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:53.8 | By the way, Kate, you were so excited about Courtney that you didn't say that this book was written by Anna |
| 0:58.3 | Martin, but that's fine because it actually wasn't. |
| 1:01.7 | It was written by the ghostwriter Peter Lorangus, who maybe doesn't know what teenage |
| 1:08.0 | girls sound like. |
| 1:10.1 | It's entirely possible. |
| 1:11.8 | It's debatable, too. |
| 1:13.1 | I mean, we could all fight about this and arrive in agreement that you're right. |
| 1:18.8 | Never mind, it's not debatable. |
| 1:21.9 | I will say I learned from Peter Larengis's Wikipedia page that he was also the author of one of my childhood |
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