Episode 26 – The Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Kelly read The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. It’s the story of a teenage girl bravely fleeing her oppressive, zombie-infested village to start a new life where she can freely express herself. Or… to be with her true love? Actually maybe she just wants to look at the ocean for awhile. Whatever.
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Candy pairing: Kait says Twizzlers, Kelly says Blackpool rock, Renata says Halls cough drops.
Coming up next: Inferno by Dan Brown.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about longing for the ocean so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.0 | And for this episode, we read The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan. |
| 0:22.5 | Joining us to discuss this undead Y.A. novel is Kelly, high school librarian and connoisseur |
| 0:28.3 | of dystopian YA fiction. Hi, Kelly. Hello, hello. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome. As listeners undoubtedly just noticed, Kelly's our first British guest. Very exciting. |
| 0:40.9 | We have had a Canadian before, but now I feel like we're truly an international podcast. |
| 0:47.6 | Next up, I want a guest to Colin from Antarctica. So if you are currently living there, please email us. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.9 | And this is an international worst bestseller |
| 0:58.0 | because it's got on the front of my edition |
| 1:00.0 | that it's an international bestseller. |
| 1:02.7 | I don't know quite how it became. |
| 1:05.8 | Stretched all the way over here. |
| 1:08.5 | You know, it's very popular in our, in our bookstores and libraries. |
| 1:11.7 | It's everywhere. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, so I was surprised when you suggested this as one to read and when Kate was like, |
| 1:18.2 | yeah, that one, because I don't like to read about zombies or scary things, as you might |
| 1:25.0 | know. |
| 1:25.8 | So I had never read that I would not have picked this up by choice, but I do try to |
| 1:30.5 | read a lot of reviews of that kind of, because a lot of kids do like zombies, obviously. |
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