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Bodice Tipplers

Bodice Tipplers

We"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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Fear Street: First Date

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/08/17

Chelsea is an ordinary high school girl, obsessed with boys and the saxophone and her diet.... until a new kid comes to school. Will Chelsea's first date become her last date?! Will the roving gangs of greaser punks take over the 90's? Why does this diner close at 7? Find out with this thrilling episode where we take on a Fear Street book! There is no sexual assault (and indeed no sex) in this book, but there is the constant threat of random violence from literally every guy in town.

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01:19:49

Wishes

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/07/05

Y'all I don't even know, this is about an 80's lady with fake boobs who dies and gets stuck being a fairy godmother for an 1890's-era girl in Colorado. I swear this is the god honest plot of this book. This WOULD be delightful but in fact it's alarmingly full of some insanely intense fat shaming, plus some shockingly evil family emotional abuse, including hella gaslighting. Seriously, this is supposed to be a light and frothy book! And it is! But if any of that sounds like it's going to bother

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42:25

The Hood

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/06/07

The Hood by Carin Rafferty: It's 1992! She's a treasury agent! He's an... accountant! A white savior accountant! Just read it, okay? This white boy plays basketball in his Daisy Dukes in it, it is amazing.

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01:03:29

Rogue - With Special Guests!

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/05/31

Guess what, y'all? It's a very special crossover episode! We got together with the ladies from Textual Tension and all four of us had to read this piece of crap that Fabio "wrote" so we hope you appreciate what we do for you. So. This book. Jesus fuck. He's named Ryder Remington (yes really) which is kind of all you need to know. She's masquerading as a tavern wench to investigate a disappearance. In, get ready, Charleston. You know we love it when these books go to South Carolina. Nobody

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01:24:14

Barnabas Collins

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/05/04

For this episode we read the first Dark Shadows tie-in book about Barnabas Collins. It's weird and uncomfortable and very much unlike the show you guys like so don't @ us. Nobody get raped but lots of people get bitten and murdered and it's generally kind of unpleasant. This crossover is also our last episode as part of the Collinsport Historical Society podcast. If you want to keep listening to us, of course we'll always have our episodes here on bodicetipplers.com, but we'll be a lot more

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01:53:17

Flowers in the Attic: Part 2

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/04/27

So here's part two of our epic Flowers in the Attic episode, wherein we invite a Very Special Guest to explain what happened in the rest of these bugfuck crazy books and then run out of tape.

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Flowers in the Attic: Part 1

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/04/14

Neither Sara or I had read this book as teens even though ALL of our friends had. We were the “too cool” girls which really meant we were painfully uncool. Both of us recall this book being proudly displayed in the halls of our middle and high schools. V.C. Andrews was the most popular girl at any school during the 80s and 90s. She could have been crowned queen at a 114 different proms. In terms of who could generate a loyal army of teen girls it went Johnny Castle from “Dirty Dancing” and then

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01:17:29

Star Trek: Imzadi

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/03/23

We're going where we won't slut shame you if several men, a few women, and the odd salt vampire have gone before! We're talkin' bout Darmok and Jalad between the sheets! That's right - we read Imzadi!

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52:28

Night Song

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/03/12

Night Song by Beverly Jenkins - this is the first book by the First Lady of African American Romance, from 1994. Cara is a schoolmarm. Chase is a Buffalo Soldier. They do it. A lot. All over the house, y'all. All over the house. Also there are some murders. There is no sexual assault in the present of this book; however, several characters tell the traumatic stories of their pasts under slavery and one does include rape. There's also a romance novel-y rape threat by the villain but it

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56:09

Silver Angel

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/02/17

Silver Angel by Johanna Lindsey is evidently a book about a troll doll with boobs. There are, let's see. Twins. Harems. Corsairs. A public fight about pubic waxing. Assassins. Eunuchs. Poisonings. A vizier. As usual, you're definitely going to want to get a vintage copy with an older cover. What is it with these publishers reissuing these with the worst covers? The trigger warnings on this are... complicated. There is no sexual assault actually happening in this book, surprisingly. (I

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29:13

Adam and Eva

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/02/11

Sandra Kitt's Adam and Eva was the first Harlequin romance written by an African American author about a African American couple, in 1984. It's not the first black category romance - as far as we know that's Rosalind Welles' Entwined Destinies, which was published by Dell Candlelight in 1980. There's also a rumor that Anne Weale's Blue Days at Sea is a "stealth black romance" - evidently the protagonists' race just isn't mentioned but the people on the cover are even whiter than usual. (And they

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01:15:49

Palomino

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/01/13

We have a January treat for you: books we actually read as criminally young girls! Sara's is Palomino by Danielle Steel. Samantha is one of those hyper-competent insanely beautiful has-a-weird-nickname Steel women who is taking the advertising world by storm while simultaneously being abandoned by her ridiculously awful husband. She goes off to heal her broken heart on a ranch in California and meets a super hot ranchin' dude. If you were like me and you loved books about horses and books about

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18:23

Hearts Alight

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/01/01

This is a tiny little Bodice Tipplers Extracurricular Mini-Episode - we're going off the reservation and reading a modern book! Hearts Alight by Elliot Cooper is a cute little gay romance Hanukkah novella about a sad sack guy who falls in love with a golem. It's adorable and sweet and you'll read it in an afternoon and you should go do so.

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