Episode 31 – New Moon
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2015
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
It’s been one year since our very first episode, when Caroline of Fantastic Fangirls read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer with us! To celebrate, we decided to return to the scene of the crime and read New Moon, the next book in the Twilight saga. Also, we decided to drink heavily while we talked about it. We crowdsourced a Worst Bestsellers drinking game and played it as we recorded. It turns out that if you drink every time one of us says “literally,” you’ll get pretty drunk! We hope you enjoy listening to this extra-long special episode as much as we enjoyed recording it, but that’s honestly probably impossible. Thanks for listening to us this year! We hope to continue reading stuff so you don’t have to for years to come.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Another Look at Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight
American Indians in Children’s Literature on Twilight
Running With The Wolves: A Racialicious Reading of Twilight
New Moon and the Joys of Face Punch
Worst Bestsellers Drinking Game
Forever Young Adult’s New Moon Drinking Game
Candy pairing: Caroline says giant Reese’s peanut butter cups, Kait says Mr. Goodbar, Renata says Dove Promises.
Coming up next: Dino Park After Dark by Christie Sims & Alara Branwen.
Special note: We’re having a Twilight movie tweet-along on 7pm (EST) the evening of October 4th. It’s currently streaming on Netflix. We hope you’ll join us with #TwiWorst ! Netflix took down the Twilight movie on October 1st, so we’ll be livetweeting the documentary TWILIGHT IN VOLTERRA instead.
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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about a glistening love triangle so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.6 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.7 | And for this episode, we read New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. |
| 0:24.9 | Joining us to discuss the second Twilight book is Caroline, certified middle-aged person and |
| 0:30.5 | Star Cross Twilight Enthusiast. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome, Caroline. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:35.3 | I went too fast. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, I was going to welcome you. Okay, sorry. |
| 0:39.3 | You've now been welcomed. Yay. I feel like, okay, first of all, this is our one year anniversary |
| 0:45.7 | of this podcast. Congratulations to us. Yeah. And I don't, no one has ever commented on this, |
| 0:52.1 | so I don't know if anyone has noticed. I don't know if I |
| 0:54.4 | should call attention to it. But Kate and I cannot ever decide or remember if our tagline is |
| 1:01.3 | we read about or we read about. And I feel like we switch back and forth every time. Now you're |
| 1:10.6 | all going to listen for it. I should have said nothing. |
| 1:14.2 | That is really the English language's fault and not yours. I know, because we type it out and |
| 1:18.5 | then every time, because sometimes I feel like it makes more sense past tense and sometimes |
| 1:23.4 | present. Yeah, sometimes it just sounds better past tense. |
| 1:28.3 | I think it depends on like how generic the topic of the book is. |
| 1:33.3 | Then you could say we read about, because you read about this things a lot, but I don't |
| 1:37.3 | know. |
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