Episode 70 – The Notebook (LIVE at Trident Booksellers!)
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Margaret H. Willison (Two Bossy Dames, Appointment Television) read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks for a special live episode recorded at Trident Booksellers & Cafe in Boston! If you’re familiar with the movie, you might be surprised at some of the book’s more upsetting twists and turns. If you’re a doctor, you might be surprised to hear that love cures Alzheimer’s! Thanks again to Trident for having us and to everyone who turned out to see our live show!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Photo Roundup from the Live Show
A Brief History of Rachel McAdams’ Time-Traveling Dating Obsession
Nicholas Sparks on The Choice, Religion and Love After Divorce
Legend of Zelda: Lon-Lon Ranch
Candy pairing: Kait says fancy candy jewelry, Margaret says Werther’s originals, Renata says Crybabies sour gum.
Coming up next: The Shack by William Paul Young.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about white people kissing in the rain so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.5 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.6 | And for this episode, we read read the notebook by Nicholas Sparks |
| 0:22.4 | joining us to discuss this unsubstantiated medical miracle is Margaret H. Willison |
| 0:27.9 | librarian, podcaster, and culture witch |
| 0:31.1 | hi Margaret hi guys sorry was I supposed to say something there I don't know I was |
| 0:36.7 | supposed to say something like that this don't know. I wasn't supposed to say anything like that. This is primarily an audio medium. So I got... It's just... One of the great things about podcasting is I think if people could hear me on podcast and know how often I'm doing this into the process of the camera, they would hate me even more than people are inclined to hate me now. |
| 1:00.4 | So, like, I'm glad to be saving you guys from my intense and oppressive self-regard, mostly. |
| 1:08.1 | So when we were invited here to do a live episode initially, it was supposed to be right around a Valentine's Day, so we figured let's pick the worst romantic book that everyone's heard of that we could think of. |
| 1:14.2 | That we hadn't done yet. |
| 1:15.3 | Right. |
| 1:15.9 | Because we already did 50 Shades of Grame. |
| 1:17.5 | And Twilight. |
| 1:20.1 | You guys have covered a lot of this territory already. |
| 1:23.1 | Yes. |
| 1:24.4 | So we picked the notebook. |
| 1:25.8 | We had done another Nicholas Sparks book a while back. |
| 1:29.7 | It was not very Nicholas Sparksy. |
| 1:32.5 | Which one? |
| 1:32.9 | We picked it because it was about ghosts. |
| 1:34.2 | Yeah, because it felt very on brand for us, but then no one died tragically at the end. |
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