Episode 56 – Angels Watching Over Me
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Out of the sadness cave and into the pediatric hospital, Renata has returned to join Kait and Eryn for the final book of Flashback Summer, Angels Watching Over Me by Lurlene McDaniel. We went back to a time before WebMD and The Fault in Our Stars, back when tweens had to cry over a romance between an English girl who doesn’t know she has cancer and an Amish boy who doesn’t know what candy bars are. We also learned about the dangers of spider bites. PSA: if you can’t find your Kleenex, maybe an angel stole it?
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Footnotes: Everything Hurts: A Slurlene McDaniel Review
I Was Obsessed With YA Cancer Novels Long Before The Fault In Our Stars
Lifted Up By Angels plot summary
Until Angels Close My Eyes plot summary
Candy pairing: Eryn says buckeyes, Kait says vinegar candy, Renata says Milky Ways.
Coming up next: The Selection by Kiera Cass.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we make fun of kids with cancer so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.2 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:17.4 | And for this episode, we read Angels Watching Over Me by Lorlene McDaniel. |
| 0:22.3 | Joining us to discuss this classic 90-sicklet is career counselor slash teenage non-cancer survivor, Erin. |
| 0:29.7 | Hi, Erin. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello. |
| 0:31.3 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:32.9 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:35.1 | Thanks for joining us for this last installment of Flashback Summer. |
| 0:40.3 | And welcome back to Renata, who has returned from her sadness cave at last. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm so glad to be back. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm so happy to be in my happiness non-cave. |
| 0:50.2 | Excellent, excellent. |
| 0:52.3 | Thanks to Becca for holding down the fort while I was gone. |
| 0:55.0 | There's a little place, I don't know, there's a fort and a cave happening now. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, and also you're leaving your sad cave to talk about a really sad book. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, so... |
| 1:07.0 | That's true. |
| 1:08.0 | By the end of this, I might decide to move back into the sadness cave. |
| 1:12.9 | So, yeah, this, I have discovered, in the last few days, I've been telling people like, |
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