Happy Ides of March, friends! After a very tense podcast last week, in which Whiskey Jenny naysayed two of my absolutely favorite books in the whole world, we have again reached an accord this week and legitimately had to stop ourselves from talking forever about romance novels. We also chat about Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer’s book Agnes and the Hit Man, answer some listener mail, and preview some THRILLING NEW PODCAST CONTENT. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here’s the time signatures for each segment, if you want to skip around!
1:23 – What we’re reading
4:23 – SEA OR SPACE
07:07 – Romance novels!
33:43 – Agnes and the Hit Man, Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
47:34 – Listener mail
52:44 – What we’re reading next time
53:44 – What else we’re reading next time
What We’re Reading
Njinga of Angola, Linda Heywood
a top secret book
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, Rosa Brooks
Sea or Space
Here’s the New York Times article about the awesome new planets we’re going to have to colonize when Trump blows up our one.
Romance Novels
One Plus One, Jojo Moyes
A Gentleman’s Game, Theresa Romain
Wanted, a Gentleman, KJ Charles
Wicked Becomes You, Meredith Duran
Riveted, Meljean Brook
Ride with Me, Ruthie Knox
Beta Test, Annabeth Albert
Faking It, Jennifer Crusie
A Lady’s Lesson in Scandal, Meredith Duran
The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer
True Pretenses, Rose Lerner
A Lot Like Love, Julie James
Here’s Dahlia Lithwick’s brilliant unified theory of Muppet types.
Unraveled, Courtney Milan
Proof by Seduction, Courtney Milan
A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong, Cecilia Grant
Special Werewolf Alpha Team series, Paige Tyler
Stephanie Plum series, Janet Evanovich
Nora Roberts in general
A Gentleman Undone, Cecilia Grant
The Spymaster’s Lady, Joanna Bourne
Acute Reactions and Hard Knocks, Ruby Lang
No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, Sarah MacLean
Sutphin Boulevard, Santino Hassell
A Woman Entangled, Cecilia Grant
The Second Annual Forcening, Part Two
Agnes and the Hit Man, Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
For Next Time
The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
Programming Note
For next week, we will be reading the first two episodes/chapters of The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, and you can follow along with us on Serial Box!
Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour