Episode 75 – Saddle Club
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Hey, do you like horses? If so, great news: Flashback Summer continues as Jess (from Book Riot Comics) joined Renata and Becca to discuss Horse Shy from the Saddle Club series by Bonnie Bryant! If you don’t like horses: too bad, because that’s literally the only thing these Saddle Club girls talk about. Saddle up and hear us unpack a book that traumatized many young horse enthusiasts!
TYPICAL ADAM LEVINE pic.twitter.com/dvGAufciuh
— Renata Sancken (@renatasnacks) June 5, 2017
Promotional note: Come see us live at the Freepoint Hotel in Cambridge, MA on June 20th at 7pm!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: #WeNeedDiverse Saddle Club Book Covers
9 Saddle Club Books That Totally Ruled Your World As A Kid
Candy pairing: Becca says Neigh-cco wafers, Jess says a disgusting Tastee Delight sundae, Renata says a stale granola bar.
Coming up next: Meet Addy by Connie Porter and Molly Saves the Day by Valerie Tripp (American Girls series).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about equine privilege so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.7 | And I'm comet. |
| 0:23.6 | And for... |
| 0:26.6 | Okay. And... |
| 0:28.6 | Maybe we should do that again. |
| 0:30.6 | It's all staying in, so just power through it. |
| 0:32.6 | Oh, God. |
| 0:41.3 | For this episode, we read Hors Shy by Bonnie Bryant. |
| 0:45.1 | Joining us to discuss the second book from the Saddle Club series is Jess, writer and casual horse enjoyer. |
| 0:51.2 | Hi, Jess. |
| 0:52.7 | Hello. |
| 0:53.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:54.1 | I broke a knot up for you. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh my God. Hi. Thank you. Not Kate, aka Comet, aka Becca. |
| 1:05.5 | Kate is not here. She is waiting for Dave Malloy outside the theater where the great |
| 1:10.7 | comet is, that stuff. So I'm here. Deal with it. And I have a cold. |
| 1:17.3 | Deal with that. I also just want to point out I'm not drunk. I just |
| 1:22.1 | thought that was very funny. |
| 1:25.1 | I can do that since we finished recording the last episode a week and a half ago. |
| 1:31.8 | We don't know enough about great comment to make informed jokes, so we just have to say the word comment a bunch. |
| 1:38.5 | And it's pretty funny, guys. |
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