Episode 85 – Alex & Eliza
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
We’re helpless for the Schuyler Sisters (you know, Angelica, Eliza…and Peggy), so we read Alex & Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz with Andrea. Unfortunately, the author threw away her shot at writing something we didn’t want to burn. Make sure your vaccines are up-to-date before you listen to us discuss some Hamilton fanfiction that has a lot more smallpox and a lot less love than we were hoping for.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Episode 38 – Hamilton
Melissa de la Cruz’s Alex & Eliza: Hamilton-inspired YA novel retells a love story
Queer as a Five Dollar Bill by Lee Wind
U.S. Army Medical Department: John Cochran
George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation
Candy pairing: Andrea says peppermint coconut, Kait says a picked-over Russell Stover sampler, Renata says a chocolate orange.
Coming up next: The Amorous Adventures and Intrigues of Aaron Burr by Anonymous.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about sexually charged smallpox inoculations so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.6 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:24.1 | And for this episode, we read Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz. Joining us to discuss this Hamilton fan fiction is Andrea, one of Marvel's |
| 0:30.0 | Hamilton fangirls. Hello. Thank you for having me on. Thanks for joining us. I love talking |
| 0:36.9 | about smallpox. |
| 0:56.2 | We just don't get enough of a chance to talk about smallpox. It's true. It's true. By the way, I just want to say, of the time, you can write you that I'm sick, I'm going to try not to talk too much, but I don't have smallpox, so don't worry about it. I'm going to be mean, it would, it would fit in with our reading books about people who have the same ailments as you. That's true. And you know, |
| 1:00.4 | I haven't actually gone to the doctor, so I guess I don't know for sure that I don't have smallpox. |
| 1:06.2 | But I don't think you have any of these symptoms. Checked out. Let me just check WebMD real quick. |
| 1:17.2 | So this is the start of we're doing two episodes this month on Hamilton adjacent properties. |
| 1:25.1 | This is the first one, and it is very fitting that Andrea is on this episode, because, as |
| 1:31.2 | all of you know, Renata and I met in Rent Fandom like a million years ago. |
| 1:35.4 | Andrea and I also met in Rent Fandom a million years ago, and we sort of got closer again |
| 1:42.4 | after like a friendship break because of Hamilton. |
| 1:45.8 | So it's very full circle. |
| 1:47.6 | This feels very full circle. |
| 1:49.3 | It does. |
| 1:50.0 | And like talking to you, you know, talking to you guys about theater stuff again, which, |
| 1:56.3 | except talking about it a lot more professionally than we probably would have done it, like, 17. |
| 2:02.7 | Yeah, well, yeah, let's pretend. |
| 2:05.2 | Let's see that. |
| 2:08.4 | I was a moderator, okay? |
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