Episode 74 – Sweet Valley High
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Flashback Summer is back! With Kait camped outside of the Imperial Theater waiting to see Dave Malloy in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Becca stepped in to join Renata and their guest Kristi to discuss Double Love by Francine Pascal, the first of a great many Sweet Valley High books. Renata and Kristi were shocked to see that the series they remembered fondly from their childhoods begins with a kidnapping and assault. Becca, meanwhile, was shocked that anyone actually read these. Pull your gold lavalier necklace out of storage and return to Sweet Valley!
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Footnotes: “I Once Was Miss America” by Roxane Gay
Forever Young Adult’s Sweet Valley High Drinking Game
High school sororities and fraternities
Candy pairing: Becca says Warheads Extreme Sour, Kristi says cotton candy or Sugar Daddies, Renata says Mountain Dew.
Coming up next: Horse Shy (Saddle Club #2) by Bonnie Bryant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about beautiful twins with perfect size six figures and matching gold lavalier necklaces so you don't have to. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:23.1 | And I'm not Kate. |
| 0:24.7 | And for this episode, we read Double Love by Francine Pascal. |
| 0:29.4 | Joining us to discuss the first Sweet Valley High novel is Christy Chadwick, librarian and self-described |
| 0:35.7 | Enid in high school. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:39.2 | Hi, Christy. |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:40.7 | Yay. |
| 0:42.7 | No, saucequatch is in this one. |
| 0:44.9 | That's going to say. |
| 0:46.0 | We did Bigfoot's last time. |
| 0:48.3 | Oh, we did. |
| 0:49.6 | This would have been proved with Bigfoot. |
| 0:52.8 | I feel confident that in one of the Sweet Valley novels they encountered Bigfoot. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes. Why didn't we read that one? |
| 1:00.1 | Like there's just so many of them and they, I feel, I'm going to Google it right now. |
| 1:06.1 | Okay. |
| 1:07.0 | Sweet Valley High, Bigfoot. |
| 1:08.3 | In all the mystery series, they went looking for Bigfoot, I bet. |
| 1:13.3 | So Sweet Valley High, of course, very long-running series with many spin-offs, the Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley Twins, or they were junior high. |
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