Episode 67 – The Chemist
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2017
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and Jeanne (@FangirlJeanne) read Stephenie Meyer’s adult romantic thriller, The Chemist. It’s a love story that starts off with torture (but like the 24 kind, not the 50 Shades kind) and ends with a Food Network reality show. It made us truly miss the Cullens. We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast, whether it’s from inside your Volvo, Jaguar, Hummer, or other type of vehicle that Stephenie Meyer might enjoy describing in detail!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Stephenie Meyer’s Great Chemistry With Jeremy Renner
Candy pairing: Jeanne says Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans (spinach), Kait says candy cigarettes, Renata says Pop Rocks.
Coming up next: Cookie Meets Peanut by Bethenny Frankel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about how to get away with poison murder so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:21.6 | And for this episode, we read The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer. |
| 0:26.0 | Joining us to discuss this Stockholm Syndrome romance is Gene, also known as Fangirl Gene. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi. |
| 0:34.8 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:37.2 | Sorry you had to read this book. |
| 0:41.8 | It was worth it. |
| 0:43.4 | It was worth it to spend time with you guys. |
| 0:46.7 | So if you're not familiar with Gene on Twitter, the main reason we invited her to read The Chemist with us is because she often has tweeted about her feelings about Twilight, which are pretty in line with our feelings about Twilight. |
| 1:04.8 | It's a complicated relationship. |
| 1:06.9 | Right. |
| 1:08.8 | Complicated, like, the plot of this book. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.0 | So when we were when we are going to dip our toe deeper into the waters of Stephanie |
| 1:21.4 | Meyer's body of work, we thought, let's see if Gene wants to do this. And here we are. |
| 1:27.6 | Yep. |
| 1:28.8 | If you are not familiar with The Chemist, it is Stephanie Meyer's latest book for adults. |
| 1:34.4 | It was released without a lot of fanfare. |
| 1:38.1 | I feel like she's kind of trying to borrow from J.K. Rowling's playbook a little bit of like, |
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