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February 18, 2023Podcast Episode

Episode 80 – Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

He's a rake, a dastardly dastard, a blackened heart in a big nosed body! She's Spunky and extremely wee! There's a really hot scene with a glove! It's Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels! This February for Valentine's Day we're reading all your favorite 90's bad boys. The spiritual heirs of Edward Rochester. The rakes, the scoundrels, the emo ones. Broody like hens! Inventing Hot Topic! Thinking they're ugly! Running around being rich, because their behavior is much more tolerable if it comes with plenty of money! Click in for more info.
January 30, 2023Podcast Episode

Episode 79 – Scruples by Judith Krantz

Billy Ikehorn-Orsini is IT. Extraordinary wealthy, profoundly chic, and her diamonds have names. Valentine is the next big couture designer. Spider is a photographer who somehow now is the guy who makes a store cool. Whatever, just go with it - together they are the minds behind Scruples, the boutique that sounds suspiciously like a Cracker Barrel that put Rodeo Drive on the map for women like your mom and your aunties and your grandma who read this book in 1978! Click in for more info.
January 4, 2023Podcast Episode

Episode 78 – Golden Valkyrie by Iris Johansen

Honey is a figure of legend, a giantess astride the world! She is five feet and nine inches tall! She is a private investigator! Lance (YES LANCE) is a prince! His way hotter friend is sheik-adjacent! This all sounds awesome but in fact it is sadly very boring! Click in for more info.
December 21, 2022Podcast Episode

Episode 77 – Hanukkah Special! Eight Nights in December by Keira Andrews

Chag sameach! Welcome to our traditional holiday episode, where we do a modern gay Hanukkah romance ever year! This one is Eight Nights in December by Keira Andrews, where Lucas meets Nate and then everybody around them has to go buy a new mop! It's very sweet but also very sticky. Click in for more info.
November 19, 2022Podcast Episode

Episode 76 – Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Lady Emma has two weeks in American to lose her reputation and not be forced to marry the dastardly duke. Kenny has to drive her around Texas to get back in the good graces of the PGA Tour so he can play pro golf again. Why yes, this does seem radically mismatched stakes! Click in for more info.
November 2, 2022Episodes with Guests, Podcast Episode

Episode 75 – The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

Welcome to our All Souls Day Spoooooooktacular Tradition! In accordance with the ancient scrolls, every Halloween we read another Anne Rice book and invite Dr. Claire Michker to drink too much and talk about it! Click in for more info.
October 20, 2022Podcast Episode

Episode 75 – Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

It’s a happy Halloween in Bodice Tipplers land! Get your spooky season on with Vivian, who’s 16 and a pain in the ass and a werewolf! She doesn’t care what […]
October 2, 2022Episodes with Guests, Podcast Episode

Episode 74 – Fiery Virginia Jewel by Elizabeth Leigh

Glynna is a beautiful teenager living on the Virginia frontier on the eve of the French and Indian War. Kane (seriously) is… what does this guy do, actually? He’s a […]
September 7, 2022Podcast Episode

Episode 73 – The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon

They’re a bunch of nuns on the run! He’s a… Basque terrorist! Sure! Whatever! There’s also a rich dying New York boss lady and a missing orphan, a secret society […]
August 16, 2022Podcast Episode

Episode 72 – Opposites Attract by Nora Roberts

Welcome to Nora Roberts’ Opposites Attract! Their names are, and I am not kidding, Ty Starbuck and Asher Wolfe. They are tennis champs! Second chance romance! Will they go all […]