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Episode 28 – Morning Glory by Laverle Spencer
She’s barefoot and pregnant! He’s… awfully close to barefoot! It’s Georgia! It’s 1940! Chickens! Old cars! Manual water pumps! Dooryards! BEES! omg bees It’s LaVyrle Spencer’s Morning Glory, a book […]
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Episode 27 – Holiday Outing by Astrid Amara
We’re continuing our annual tradition of doing a modern gay Hanukkah romance for the holiday! This time we’ve got Holiday Outing by Astrid Amara. This is a sweet little novella […]
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Episode 26 – Gabriel’s Angel by Nora Roberts
Merry Christmas! For the holiday we read Nora Roberts’ Gabriel’s Angel. Despite this being listed as a Christmas book in Novelist! Despite this having holly and a fucking snow globe […]
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Episode 25: Sweet Liar by Jude Deveraux
He’s a rich Taggart romance-novel-dude powerlifter with a big family and a sweet townhouse! She’s an emotionally locked down country mouse forced by one of those Improbable Wills to go […]
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Episode 25 – Carved in Stone by Kathleen Eagle
SO. Y’all. Happy Thanksgiving and also decolonize yourself! We were originally going to do two books for the holiday, one racist piece of shit and one good one full of […]
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In which Courtney wrote a paper about Indigenous representation in romance
Happy not-quite-Thanksgiving, y’all! We were going to do two episodes this month as usual, but we got so pissed off at these racist-ass Native American romance books that a) we […]
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Episode 24: Ghost of a Chance by Jayne Ann Krentz
Do you wish Scooby Doo had more gross alpha male huffing and puffing in it? Then this book is for you! Anne Silver knows it’s probably a bad idea to […]
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Episode 23 – Warrior’s Woman by Johanna Lindsey
Here we go again with my nominee for “Most Likely to Catch an Intervention For Smoking Strawberry-Flavored Crack”, Johanna Lindsey! Finally, we’ve read one of the kind of books I […]
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Episode 22: Shadow of the Lynx by Victoria Holt
Shadow of the Lynx by Victoria Holt I read this when I was a kid and it gave me VERY WEIRD KID IDEAS. Now I’m returning to it and it is… […]
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Episode 21: Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Ayla is an anatomically modern human (is it technically Cro Magnon? This is set in modern day Ukraine. To the Wikipedia!) orphaned and raised by a tribe of psychic Neanderthals. […]
