Episode 51 – Lone Wolf
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guests Malia and Meagan read Lone Wolf by the mistress of twist endings, Jodi Picoult! This episode starts with the revelation that “Picoult” is pronounced like “pekoe” and only gets more shocking from there. Actually, a lot of the twists aren’t really that surprising, but we are still reeling from the revelation that the man who left his family to live with a pack of wolves for 2 years cheated on his wife with a human woman, rather than a wolf like we thought. If you have internet access in your wolf den, listen to this episode now! (If not: learn how to decode the wolves’ complex language of howls if you want to survive.)
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Jodi Picoult name pronunciation
The Moth: Man and Beast by Alan Rabinowitz
Candy pairing: Kait says scavenged trail mix, Malia says Pop Rocks and soda, Meagan says assorted chocolates with mystery filling, Renata says movie theater popcorn.
Coming up next: Animorphs #1: The Invasion by K. A. Applegate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about how wolves don't know about snopes.com, so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm Kate. And for this this episode we read Lone Wolf by |
| 0:24.1 | Jodi Pico joining us to discuss this animal planet fan fiction is extremely amateur wildlife enthusiast |
| 0:31.5 | Malia and Megan mother of two under five and trashy fanfic author hello ladies hello melia hi this is melia hello megan |
| 0:42.7 | hi thanks for joining us to share your jodi pico uh expertise thanks for having us yes definitely |
| 0:51.6 | although speaking of jodi p expertise, we all just learned in |
| 0:56.1 | like the last five minutes that that's how Jody pronounces her name. I had assumed it was |
| 1:00.9 | picolte. And in fact, I watched a couple YouTube videos and some of them say that, but she herself says |
| 1:10.1 | pico. |
| 1:16.4 | So we might forget about that during the episode because for me, Picolt has been in my head for so much longer, but anyway, Jody Pico has written a lot of books. |
| 1:22.4 | This is the first one of hers that I have personally read, although I feel as though I have read my sister's keeper because my mom read that recently and recounted the whole thing to me over the phone because there were like so many shocking twists that she was like, and then this happened, and then this happened. And I was like, whoa. But now I know exactly how I feel because that's how I feel about this book. Yeah. when I was selling books, one of my coworkers was reading one of them. |
| 1:47.3 | It might have been my sister's keeper and was like, have you ever read this book? |
| 1:50.4 | Like, it's insane. |
| 1:51.6 | And a lot of her books, because they were bestsellers, had really detailed plot |
| 1:56.1 | summaries in our system. |
| 1:58.0 | So one day when it was quiet, I went through and just read like, almost like |
| 2:02.1 | Wikipedia hopping, but within our system from one book of hers to the next, reading all the |
| 2:06.6 | detailed summaries of like the crazy family dramatic nonsense that was going on. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a little |
| 2:13.8 | bit ashamed to admit exactly how many of her books I read. I've lost count, but it's probably almost 10. |
| 2:19.9 | There's no shame here. |
| 2:22.9 | I haven't read that many, but a lot. I've read a lot. |
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