Episode 247 – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Don’t cry because Flashback Summer is over; smile because Hot Evelyn Summer is beginning! Returning bisexual icon Margaret H. Willison (1/3 of Two Bossy Dames, don’t check the math) joined us to discuss The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. We had a great time unpacking Evelyn’s wardrobe (which is much more substantial than her frame narrative). If you listen to this episode, you’ll come closer to being able to distinguish Evelyn Hugo from Evelyn Hardcastle.
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Coming up next: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Harcastle by Stuart Turton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about hashtag Evelyn problems, so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.3 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:26.3 | And for this episode, we read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reed. |
| 0:35.9 | Joining us to discuss this old Hollywood eleganza extravaganza is longtime friend of worst bestsellers and noted bisexual Margaret H. Wellison. |
| 0:37.5 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm so thrilled to be here to add some blue, pink, and purple color commentary to this discussion. |
| 0:45.5 | Ah. |
| 0:47.1 | Good one. Good one. |
| 0:47.8 | crushing it. |
| 0:49.0 | But Margaret, you keep getting away with like an iconic scam of coming on this show and reading a good book. |
| 0:57.9 | That is true. |
| 0:59.2 | She can't keep getting away with it. |
| 1:01.0 | She can. |
| 1:03.1 | Except I can and I will. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | No, this book is really fun. |
| 1:07.3 | I mean, I will say this. |
| 1:09.3 | She did get away with, she is getting away with these |
| 1:12.4 | scams of reading good books, but we did make her read multiple. Yeah. Fucking, what's her name? |
| 1:19.1 | Right. Rachel. Rachel Holland. Rachel Hall. Yes. I read both. I read two of her memoirs and |
| 1:26.2 | then her husband's memoir. Yeah. Yeah. She's put in her, earned this. Yeah. two of her memoirs and then her husband's memoir. |
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