Bodice Tipplers
119 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsWe're Courtney and we're Sara and we're Bodice Tipplers, the podcast where we read the romance novels we used to steal off our grandmothers' nightstands (and then we drink about it.) Join us each episode as we examine the good, the bad, and the throbbing of vintage romances.
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Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson
April 22, 2024 13:59 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBHe's Alex, an Oregon gentleman farmer with a very bad brother! She's Annie, a Deaf woman who's treated like garbage by literally everyone! Welcome to Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson! There are some pretty strong content warnings for this one - it won't surprise you that it's full of ableism, both Original Recipe and Extra Paternalistic, of course. There's also a pretty harrowing sexual assault that starts the book off - it's not graphic on the page but it's very traumatic for the charac...
Danger Zone by Doreen Owens Malek
February 28, 2024 23:57 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBThis is our first intentional entry in a little project we're doing - friend of the podcast Steve Ammidown posted this fascinating spread with a list of all the books Melinda Helfer, a Romantic Times editor, awarded five hearts in a review. Sixteen books out of ten thousand! Well, it turns out we'd already done two of them - Lightning that Lingers and The Windflower, both by Sharon and Todd Curtis (sometimes writing as Laura London.) Go check out those episodes, they're fantastic books! So...
Send No Flowers by Sandra Brown
January 26, 2024 23:25 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBHe's Pierce, a hot guy with a secret (and it's not that he's part of the military industrial complex, he's proud of that part!) She's Alicia, a widowed mother of two who works in a romance novel boutique! Welcome to Send No Flowers by Sandra Brown - if you'd like to listen to our previous book by her way back in Episode 36, which believe you me is equally head shaking, try our episode on Fanta-C! This book is an absolute roller coaster, and I don't just mean the bobsleds at Disneyland that...
Ben's Bakery and the Hannukah Miracle by Penelope Peters
December 21, 2023 16:28 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBHe's Ben, a cinnamon roll who bakes cinnamon rolls! He's Adam, a hockey coach and a pain in the ass! It's our annual modern gay Hannukah book - chag sameach, y'all! This year we read Ben's Bakery and the Hannukah Miracle by Penelope Peters. This one does have some serious religious gatekeeping - we mention it because it is really upsetting because this dude is not the catch he thinks he is to be such a damn asshole telling other people how to do their own damn religion right. Argh! (We lik...
Mistletoe and Holly by Janet Dailey
December 05, 2023 01:06 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBHe's Tagg, a Christmas-obsessed single dad! She's Leslie, a woman immobilized by a broken leg who cannot escape the holiday despite driving several states away and telling everybody she would prefer not to! He would probably be okay except that he's always "smirking" or "mocking" or whatevering his dialogue at her! For some reason his hair is very virile! Warning: this book has intense levels of moppet. "My daddy will teach you to believe in Santa Claus!" which in another book would be haw...
Till the End of Time by Suzanne Elizabeth
November 15, 2023 21:57 - 50 minutes - 35 MBHe's Scott, the dumbest fighter pilot to ever be trusted with a top secret time travel experiment! She's Rachel, a Civil War spy who has somehow never worn a corset! It's Till the End of Time, a 1994 time travel romance by Suzanne Elizabeth that has twenty whole reviews on Goodreads! This is a silly book, so there isn't much to warn you about except that this man is incredibly stupid and that your tax dollars are being lit on fire, and you would not believe the terrible packing on display ...
Greygallows by Barbara Michaels
October 31, 2023 21:20 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBHappy Halloween! He's Clare, a baron with a very expensive contractor's bill and a suspicious number of black armbands in his wardrobe. She's Lucy, a sheltered seventeen year old girl with a big inheritance and absolutely no friends anywhere. What a great combination! It's Greygallows by Barbara Michaels, who is also Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Mertz and probably a ton of other names - you may remember that we did an episode on her Devil May Care last year for Halloween, and that book has...
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
October 26, 2023 17:24 - 2 hours - 121 MBWelcome to our fourth (!) annual AnneRiceoween extravaganza featuring The Vampire Armand! We skipped Memnoch the Devil because we just did not want to read it, but don't worry, this book makes us find out what happened in it anyway! As usual, this episode features Friend of the Podcast Dr. Claire Mischker, weird audio (we had to change our remote recording platform so we all sound like we're living in separate wells) and an absurdly long runtime! This book has some heavier content warning...
Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
September 22, 2023 01:26 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBHe's Vanyel, the whiniest teenager ever chosen for a top government position by a horse! He's Tylendel, doomed twin and bad decision maker! Forget it, Jake, it's Valdemar! This is the first in Mercedes Lackey's Last Herald Mage trilogy, Magic's Pawn - it is not a romance novel, there is no happy ending, there are only tears. The tears are, in fact, the point. It's the first book a young Sara ever read about love between two impossibly beautiful young men, plus it has omg horsies - so yes, ...
The Windflower by Laura London
August 22, 2023 02:41 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBShe's Merry, a naïve teenager who mostly sits around waiting for something to happen. He's Devon, the evil pirate who kidnaps her mostly by accident. It's the War of 1812! Laura London is actually Tom and Sharon Curtis; we previously did a Loveswept by them that was a lot of fun, Lightning That Lingers. Check it out! We've been sleeping on this book for forever - it actually got recommended to Sara by a coworker years ago, when we first started, and we should have read it then because it'...
Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
July 22, 2023 02:22 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBWelcome to the second episode of our Jackie July extravaganza! This one is on Hollywood Wives, which was reissued this month. Many things happen in this book to many people! Some of them seem medically improbable! Watch Elaine, Ross, Neil, Montana, Gina, Buddy, Angel, Randy, Karen, and more as they call each other on the telephone and have exhausting sex with each other! It's bananas and complicated but it is a ton of fun. Content warnings in this book: everything. Literally everything. W...
Super Special Jackie Collins Interview with Rory Green and Tiffany Lerman
July 08, 2023 21:47 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBWelcome to Jackie July! We're dedicating this month to listener favorite Jackie Collins because we're in the middle of a Jackaissance - a fancy new 40th anniversary edition of Hollywood Wives is coming out (introduction by Colleen Hoover!) and two of her daughters, Rory and Tiffany, are doing press for it. We had a blast sitting down for an interview with them and we think you'll enjoy it, too. Later this month we'll dedicate an episode to Hollywood Wives and then we'll have an episode on...
Birthday Smash! Electrified by the Eel by Harpie Alexa
June 21, 2023 02:10 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBShe's Luna, in witness protection! He's Elar, a horny eel monster! It's Courtney's birthday so we're going off script and reading Electrified by the Eel, a modern paranormal romance short! (Come for the eel sex, stay for the heartfelt tangential argument about the number and location of centaur dicks.) So the book itself notes trigger warnings for drowning - look, it should have also mentioned a guy gets raped to death by lady eels (I mean, he had it coming, it's fine, nobody's gonna s...
Ravished by Amanda Quick
May 20, 2023 18:31 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBBuckle up Jane, it's the Regency! Harriet is a fossil hunter! Gideon is a viscount, which is evidently a job! He's grim and broody and has an Evil Past full of Scandals and also a cool scar! She's Tracy Flick in a pelisse! There are smugglers! And parties! It's Amanda Quick's Ravished! Surprise - nobody actually gets ravished in this book. I know, right? There's an attempted rape that's foiled by Wile E. Coyoteing a boulder onto the guy, which is the way I'd like to see all rapist...
Talisman of Valdegarde by Madeleine Simon
April 21, 2023 01:45 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBGwynne is theoretically a powerful druid! Neil is clearly a date rapist and also a bard! Anyway, here's Wonderwall! This is Talisman of Valdegarde, which - I swear I am not making this up - is an official Dungeons and Dragons Choose Your Own Adventure-style romance novel! Unsurprisingly there are no content warnings here except for the anxiety that Choose Your Own Adventure books evidently elicit in people besides just me! Thanks to Meghan Ball, whose Tor.com article Roll for Romance...
Special Interview Edition: To Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters
March 29, 2023 01:47 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIt's time for our fourth annual check-in with Martha Waters! That does not seem possible! And yet! Her latest book in the Regency Vows series is To Swoon and to Spar. Viscount Penvale has been working for years to buy back his ancestral home, Trethwick Abbey, from his estranged uncle. And so he’s thrilled when his uncle announces that he is ready to sell but with one major caveat—Penvale must marry his uncle’s ward, Jane Spencer. When the two meet in London, neither is terribly impress...
Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas
March 01, 2023 03:32 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBWelcome to the second episode of our Valentine's Day 90's Bad Boys-a-thon! This time we read Lisa Kleypas' Dreaming of You, knowing full well that we dare the wrath of the Derek Craven fan club. He's a moody emo Cockney kid from the mean streets, made his money and unsure of what to do with it now that he's got it! She's a spectacled young authoress, fresh outta Green Acres - she wants to get a good look at the big city but what she mostly gets a good look at is him! She starts the book o...
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
February 16, 2023 16:07 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBHe'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 come...
Scruples by Judith Krantz
January 29, 2023 22:40 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBBilly 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! It's Scruples by Judi...
Golden Valkyrie by Iris Johansen
January 03, 2023 14:50 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBHoney 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! We wanted to read one of the Sedikhan books that everybody seems to really like - but we did not like this one. Please let us know which one we should have read instead! You can probably guess from this that there's some ...
Hannukah Special! Eight Nights in December by Keira Andrews
December 20, 2022 00:11 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBChag 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. Check out our previous years' holiday episodes - there's only enough podcast for one night, but if you delve into the archive it will entertain you for four nights! (I don't know what happened in 2020! Wait ...
Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
November 18, 2022 03:33 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBLady 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! It's Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips! This is one of those wild Susan Elizabeth Phillips joints, so all of the content you should be aware of is simultaneously 100% for real and also 100% ridiculous - everyb...
The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
November 02, 2022 02:35 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBWelcome 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! This year, we read The Tale of the Body Thief, and we have nobody to blame for it but ourselves. If you're watching the show but haven't read the books, or if you've read the books and haven't watched the show, or whatever your situation is, know that this episodes has book spoil...
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
October 19, 2022 21:49 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBIt'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 you think, Mom! He's Aiden and he's that kid you thought was so deep and mysterious and hot in high school! Other He is Gabe and he's... 24, and has a job, and is also a werewolf! It's Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause! This book does have a lot of murdering in it, and a near-suicide, and a sixteen year old girl who...
Fiery Virginia Jewel by Elizabeth Leigh (With Special Guest!)
October 02, 2022 15:37 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBGlynna 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 rich dude masquerading as a tutor but really on the hunt for a tiara his mom misplaced. Is that really a career path? Anyway, this is Fiery Virginia Jewel, by Elizabeth Leigh.... or is it? You'll have to listen to the episode to find out whether this author exists or not - we put Steve Ammidown at Bowling Green State Unive...
The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
September 07, 2022 03:25 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBThey'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 that runs all of Spain, several bullfights, at least two prison breaks, a Swiss bank account, and some sex murders! Look out, y'all, it's The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon! You heard us - we're diving back into the Sidney Sheldon oeuvre! Fire up your meanest YouTube comments! Why do you care so much? Nobody knows! Why...
Opposites Attract by Nora Roberts
August 16, 2022 02:10 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBWelcome 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 the way (heh)? Well table (tennis) that because BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP to our shock and disgust this is a surprise abortion-shaming book! Seriously, we wanted to do a fun sports book where they're both athletes! Summer! Tennis whites! Tennis puns! NO. Content warnings abound: half the people in this book has go...
Heart of Dixie by Tami Hoag
June 25, 2022 00:59 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBJake is a biographer (is that a job if you're not Kitty Kelly?) and Dixie is... oh come on. So there's a Missing Star, Devon, and then there's Dixie, the tow truck driver, do I have to draw a map for you or have you ever read a book before? The Law of Economy of Characters is absolutely in play here. This is a surprisingly charming book in that "the big lie is gonna come calling" genre; it's even a fun example of the "quirky small town" business - and Sara found it in a Little Free Libra...
Only Forever by Linda Lael Miller
May 20, 2022 01:01 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBNick is an ex-football player! Vanessa is a shopping network hostess lady! I know, it sounds cute, but it was completely overshadowed for us by her terrifying stalker ex! If you or someone you know is experiencing intimate partner violence, which is what we used to call domestic violence, you can get help. Start with these resources: National Domestic Violence Hotline Love is Respect National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network’s (RAINN) National Sexual Assault...
The Sherbrooke Bride by Catherine Coulter
April 30, 2022 12:11 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBDouglas is a mean-ass, uh, spy? and lord of something or other. Alex is the plainer sister of The Most Beautiful Woman in England but she's got some knockout knockers. They throw chairs at each other and get kidnapped. It's our sixty-ninth episode, The Sherbrooke Bride by Catherine Coulter! By the way, there's some discussion in this about whether a fancy Regency lady would pee in the woods on a long carriage ride - despite Google trying to autocomplete "how did travelling Regency women" w...
Special Edition - To Marry and to Meddle by Martha Waters
April 05, 2022 01:48 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBA threepeat! The best part of our year is always catching up with Our Friend Martha, who is now celebrating the release of her third book! Lady Emily Turner has been a debutante for six seasons now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. However, due to her father’s large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father’s favorite gambling house. Meanwhile, Lord Julian Belfry, the second son of a marquess, has scandalized society as an actor and owner...
Blue Days at Sea by Anne Weale
March 20, 2022 17:19 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBSarah is a plucky girl reporter! Lyle is a hot war correspondent who's also a news anchor I guess? (Maybe he's a far more uncool Morley Safer?) Anyway he isn't a print journalist but he's decided he's going to restart the weekly newspaper on Compostela, a Caribbean island that we might as well call Smasrshbuda. She wants the job! He's incredibly inappropriate and she takes it anyway! It's 1981! He has a terrible mustache and looks exactly like that guy from The Young and the Restless th...
Tonight and Forever by Brenda Jackson
February 26, 2022 23:31 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBHe's Justin, a doctor who just moved to Cookoutville, moved on from his dead wife, and about to move into a swank ranch property. She's Lorren, a children's book author not interested in love since she divorced an Awful Husband. It's Tonight and Forever, Brenda Jackson's first book! Generally all of the potentially troubling stuff in this book happened in the past - there's an emotionally and physically abusive ex husband, an uncool mustache, a Dead Brain Cancer Wife, that sort of thing....
Film F*ck It - Morning Glory (1993)
February 01, 2022 02:01 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBY'all. It's been a month. It's just been so much January. So very January. We didn't actually... uh, read two books this month, so in the finest American scholarly tradition we watched a movie instead! Thrill to the very Canadian film adaptation of LaVyrle Spencer's Morning Glory (you may want to listen to our episode on the book first, but you totally don't have to because obviously we didn't prepare so why should you?) It's got Christopher Reeve and this Deborah Raffin lady we really li...
All for Quinn by Kay Hooper
January 26, 2022 02:29 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBHe's an international jewel thief trying to catch another international jewel thief! She's a museum... employee? Evidently? It's All for Quinn by Kay Hooper, a Loveswept that's also somehow fourth in a series with real continuity and the expectation that you have read the others! And yes, the cover on both Amazon and Goodreads is just a photo of the book somebody took with flash. It's caper time! No serious triggers in this at all, just good ol' caper stuff like chloroforming and Interp...
His for Hanukkah by Reese Morrison
December 31, 2021 23:27 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBAdam is a Jewish sub who's tired of seeing Christmas all over the place. Tate is a trans Daddy who's looking for somebody to take care of. In our annual December tradition of reading gay Hanukkah novellas, we present His for Hanukkah by Reese Morrison! No real triggers in this book - it's very sweet. The only thing that might be upsetting is that Adam's anxiety, which is very realistic and may be too close to home for some people, and Tate's crappy family, which may also be too close t...
White Lies by Linda Howard
December 17, 2021 02:05 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWe recorded this one in... September, maybe? Who knows! Life is weird these days! Anyway it's December and that's appropriate because this book has cabins! Spies! Amnesia! It's White Lies by Linda Howard! He's... possibly her ex husband but probably not her ex husband and he's got amnesia and is in full body traction! She quit her high powered finance job because the FBI is paying her rent so she can let him grab her boobs! If that sounds bananapants you're right, it's bananapants! ...
Their First Thanksgiving by Stella Bagwell
December 01, 2021 02:15 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBGOBBLE GOBBLE YO! He's America's Farmer. She's America's Guilt. Together they are our tryptophan turd - Stella Bagwell's Their First Thanksgiving. Seriously, y'all, this book is awful. He gaslights her, she's got a white savior complex, every woman in his family puts a solid 80 hours of work into Thanksgiving for five people... it is a damned mess. We burned the book in protest. Do you know what it takes to get two librarians to participate in a book burning? NOW YOU DO. The onl...
Special Edition - The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams
November 26, 2021 17:57 - 44 minutes - 31 MBWe had a lot of fun talking with Denise Williams, author of The Fastest Way to Fall. If you'd like to purchase a copy, please consider doing it from Dog Eared Books, Denise's local independent bookstore in Ames, Iowa. Britta didn't plan on falling for her personal trainer, and Wes didn't plan on Britta. Plans change and it's unclear if love, career, or both will meet them at the finish line. Britta Colby works for a lifestyle website, and when tasked to write about her experience with a...
Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
October 31, 2021 20:23 - 2 hours - 108 MBHAPPY HALLOWEEN to those who celebrate! We're continuing our Halloween tradition by bringing you another Anne Rice jam with Special Guest Dr. Claire! Last year we covered The Vampire Lestat and you should totally go back and listen to that one too. This time we didn't go for three hours - two and a half hours is not three hours. We got off the rails because quite frankly this book never even got on the rails. This book is a speedboat trying to use the train tracks. That's our excuse h...
Devil May Care by Elizabeth Peters
October 17, 2021 17:16 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBWelcome to spooky season, where we get ghosts in our brains that make us incapable of remembering the name of the book or half of the characters! So so sorry, "Ted"! OooooooOOOOOoooo spooooky! We love Halloween here at Bodice Tipplers so we decided to give you not one but two Halloween books - the first is Devil May Care by Elizabeth Peters. The second you'll have to wait to find out about - expect it at the end of the month. Ellie is a young... what does she do again? Anyway a young ...
Ride the Thunder by Janet Dailey
September 29, 2021 16:05 - 1 hour - 49 MBHe's Brig McCord (no really), a Hatchet-scenario survivor, ex-soldier of fortune, and rancher. She's Johanna something or other, hot redhead-in-certain-lights and general doer of nothing in particular (except for, of course, big game hunting with her dad.) It's a tale of murder, mystery, and doing it - it's Ride the Thunder by Janet Dailey! Content warnings for this include big game trophy hunting which is super gross, including some skinning and stuff, mild ravishing, a guy who's just ...
Special Edition - The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
September 06, 2021 23:49 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBWe had the great pleasure of sitting down with Alison Cochrun to talk about her very buzzy book, The Charm Offensive. If you'd like to purchase a copy, please consider buying from Alison's local independent bookstore, Vintage Books! At this time there are signed copies available! Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franch...
Navy Wife by Debbie Macomber
August 25, 2021 00:35 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBIf you're seeing two Navy Wife episodes in your aggregator, this is the one that doesn't have a bunch of weird audio problems! We couldn't figure out how else to make sure that people set to automatically download episodes would get the corrected version once we replaced the file - our apologies. Life comes at you fast! When we recorded this episode focusing on the military and talking a great deal about our choices abroad we had no idea it was going to come out at the exact same time as...
Double Standards by Judith McNaught
August 03, 2021 02:31 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBShe's brought her masters' degree in performance piano and her new Trans Am to the bright lights big city Detroit to... engage in corporate espionage for her eighteenth cousin once removed. He's a 36 year old high flying executive with the world and all the women in it at his feet. Together they do crimes cry a lot have a gross 80's boss-secretary relationship. This is obviously gonna have some content warnings. In addition to the urrrrgh of the whole workplace romance thing, there's a...
Banner O'Brien by Linda Lael Miller
July 25, 2021 20:04 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBBanner O'Brien is the worst possible lady doctor in 19th century Washington State, which I guess also makes her the best lady doctor around (but no, she is not good at this doctoring thing.) Adam Corbin is the biggest assholes in 19th century Washington State and he does have plenty of competition. They yell. They slap. They do it, a lot. He's always "plundering" her various underclothes businesses. They keep truly amazing secrets from each other. It's a ride! This book has some pre...
Fancy Free by Suzanne Michelle
June 27, 2021 16:14 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MBShe's a pilot and owns her own charter service! He's an actor preparing for a role! Together they are oh my god they are so boring you guys. Welcome to a super short episode of Bodice Tipplers where our luck in series romance runs out! It's got... well, it's got planes. It's got a cute flight suit. It's got a shuttle launch, which you would think would be exciting but don't worry, it isn't. It's got rib-eatin'! It's got getting caught in the rain! And yet. There are no content wa...
The Lady's Tutor by Robin Schone
June 20, 2021 03:10 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBWelcome to Robin Schone's The Lady's Tutor. She's a wealthy Victorian politician's wife, proper in every way. He's a halfbreed bastard... oh god I can't with this racist book, I just can't. It's about a woman who asks for sex lessons with no lab component, and then she realizes her husband sucks and opts for the lab after all. This is one Sara had very fond memories of that... did not necessarily hold up. It has some major content warnings - it's got Evil Gays complete with political...
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
May 31, 2021 21:14 - 2 hours - 127 MBToday we have a special treat for you - we got Henry from FireStarters to read Grace Metalious' Peyton Place with us and let me tell you... it's a real Peyton Place in there. I honestly can't even describe the plot of this book so let me just give you the trigger warnings, I guess? So this book is trying really hard to shock you, which shouldn't shock you - the stuff that isn't intentional in it, therefore, is... more shocking? So on that front look out for rampant 1950's racism that th...
Honor's Splendour by Julie Garwood
May 18, 2021 02:16 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBMeet gentle Lady Madelyne, kidnapped by the studly Baron Duncan! Meet a lot of people whose names we cannot recall! Wonder why "honor" is spelled the American way but "splendour" got that extra u! Thrill to dastardly deeds, "dastardly deeds" if you know what I mean, and last minute court intrigue for no reason! It's Honor's Splendour by Julie Garwood, a special listener request! Trigger warnings include seriously dodgy depictions of mental illness, Evil Gays, offscreen-before-times se...