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Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves

Isabeau and Morgan

Whoa!mance is a weekly podcast interrogating the Romance genre; we do deep dives on Romance"s heroines and heroes, it"s sexiest bits, and the weirdest parts--we cover it all from meet cute to HEA.

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161: Get Your Turkey Leg Over - "Well Met" By Jen DeLuca

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/09/29

Hoist up your bosoms, fill your tankards, and line up for facepaint - this week yr grls are travelling back in time to a general idea of "old" for WELL MET by Jen DeLuca. Simon is an uptight, high school English Teacher by day, and a sexy, flirty pirate by a different time of day. Emily is just trying to be a cool aunt (and make more, if not The Most, of her time in this small town) when she signs up to be a wench in his school's booster club/Renn Fest. Are sparks flying or is it just so many

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21:57

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/09/21

Ever find yourself on a country ramble when the object of your ire and distain just happens to also ramble your way? No? Just us? Why is Darcy always around? Why is he asking pertinent and insightful questions? Why is his hot cousin talking about things he can't have? Is it all for Lizzie? Who knows dear reader--but we're about to find out!

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72:35

160: 2 HAVE 2 HOLD - To Have And To Hold By Patricia...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/09/14

Nobody move! There's blood on the floor. And yr grls can't find their hearts. Thanks to whispered romance classic- "To Have and To Hold" by Patricia Gaffney. Sebastian has everyone's fave romance hero first name and a brand new estate in an idyllic country town. Total snoozefest, but then most things are to Sebby. That is, until a captivating former-con with (gasp) SHORT hair named Rachel captures his fancy AND his rather horrid whimsy. Will these two be one another's reckoning in a good way or a

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25:58

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/09/07

You know how sometimes you build a narrative around someone you maybe like, and then they totally mess it up for you? We're not saying that Lizzie is a bit of a small town girl or that Darcy is a city boy--but we are saying that Darcy got some cold reality and it bites.

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65:32

Re!mance Episode 85: Beavers and Bunnies (Entrop[e]y...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/09/01

In light of the recent events around romance and it's fave sport, hockey, including our eppy on THE DEAL, we're rereleasing our discussion of the iconic stick slapper - PUCKED > Last time, yr girls explored the subversive quaintness of Amish romance in our inaugural Entrop[e]y episode. This week, Morgan and Isabeau are back in the game for our first installment on SPORTS romance with Pucked, by Helena Hunting. Here we find Violet, the step-sister of a successful hockey player, linking up with the

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24:13

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/08/24

Is Lizzy a hedging sarcastic wit punching up at her social better while he (meaning Mr. Darcy himself) is meeting her in earnest and vulnerability? Is she just trying to be funny in front of Darcy's hot cousin? Hard to tell, but we try to suss it out for you--because we care.

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68:36

159: Why Hockey? - "The Deal" By Elle Kennedy

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/08/17

Is that a hockey stick in your pocket or is your weiner just like super big and bent at the very end? Let's find out while discussing TikTok sensation "THE DEAL" by ELLE KENNEDY! Garrett needs help figuring out how different philosophers would justify genocide so he can pass his midterm and remain the beloved captain of his small liberal arts/Ivy-adjacent/D-1 unverisity's hockey team. Enter singer/songwriter/skinny-big-boobs Hannah. She's got an "A" in the class and a deal to strike. Tutoring for

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31:59

Public Access Read-A-long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/08/10

Happy Belated Birthday Jane Austen--nobody does it better. We're still at Rosings waiting on what Mr. Darcy's gonna do when he finally appears. Join us as we discuss the deification of characters and what happens when we flatten the narrative.

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28:17

158: Come for the Wings, Stay for the Ruin - "A Court...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/08/03

We aren't going to leave these takes flappin' in the wind - join us as we land the conversation with part 2 of our discussion on A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN by Maas. What makes a "good" war text? How can we talk about gender and race in a fantasy-world divorced from our social reality? Or can popular fiction even effectively imagine such a world? Can you still get horny in a "Li-berry"? Spoiler alert: This one split the judges on Whoa v. No. Tune in and decide where you land

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47:09

157: DADDY WAR BOOKS - "A Court Of Wings And Ruin"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/07/27

War! UH! Good gosh y'all! What is it good for? 699 pages! SAY IT AGAIN! That's right, we're back in Prythy-town to discuss the third (and obviously originally meant to be final) book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series - A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN by Sarah J. Maas. Feyre and Rhysand and their found family (plus Feyre's two kidney donors a.k.a. sisters) do a lot of stuff. They spy, they murder, they go through the arduous process of setting an executive-level meeting, they smooch, they knock

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35:29

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/07/20

Almost half way there y'all and in this chapter we meet the infamous Mrs. De Bourg. She's got opinions, she was once handsome, and remains really rich. Lizzie thinks of jokes that will tickle Wickam and tries real hard not to think about a certain other you-know-who

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17:35

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/07/13

Chapter 28 opens with a physical journey and closes with an emotional one for yr grls. Once Lizzy's quips were uncomplicated in their high humor, now tho, they hit different. Is it us? Is it Lizzy? Is it the 200ish years between us? Listen and you decide

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81:49

156: Crypto Nepo Baby - The Astronaut and the Star by...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/07/06

This episode we return to space! Or rather the Arizona mock-up of space - with THE ASTRONAUT AND THE STAR by JEN COMFORT. Reggie is a mean astronaut who wants to go the moon and Jon is a nice star who wants to win an Oscar. Maybe they can help each other become successful even moreso than their parents did? Or maybe they can fall in love? Or maybe those things aren't mutually exclusive? What makes a contempo-romcom a bestseller? When is off-branding a conspiracy theory in romance problematic? Are

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58:57

Re!Mance: HBD AMERICA! - Mistress Firebrand by Donna...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/06/29

Yr grls are taking time this weekend to cough up the worst air in the history of Chicago to make room for cool, clear PBR. So we have enough time for "1776" AND "Independence Day", we are re-releasing this Star-Spangled oldie, but Yankee-Doodle Dandy goodie. We dish on American Revolution meets Ye Olde Show Biz romance MISTRESS FIREBRAND by DONNA THORLAND. Along the way we talk about French Letters and French Kisses...excuse us. FREEDOM Letters and FREEDOM Kisses. Stuck in traffic due to the NASCAR

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20:03

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/06/22

Have you heard April is the cruelest month? Wrong--it's February and boy does Lizzie Bennet know it! Without her best bud, without her best sis, without the sun what is Lizzie but a collection of misanthropic observations? Too harsh--you be the judge in this zippy little chapter

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81:49

Dreaming of Who? Whoa!mance + Shelf Love on Dreaming...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/06/15

Can we get vulnerable for a bit? Hope so, because we did. Along with Jodie Slaughter and Andrea of Shelf Love Podcast, we come together - not unlike a certain Derek and Sarah - to reflect of what DREAMING OF YOU by LISA KLEYPAS. has to say about feminine identity, romance readers, and, as ever, ourselves. Why Derek Craven and why not Joyce? Why does Romance seek the approval of systems that do not serve it and indeed don’t even get it? Are we not all always already overidentifying with main

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22:56

Public Access Read-A-Long "Pride and Prejudice"...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/06/08

Welp Mr. Collins done married Mz Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Wickham has discovered a new first object and she comes with 10000 pounds. Lizzie feels one way about her bud Charlotte's choices and another about Mr. Wickham's. We begs the question--what does the text think about Lizzie? What do we think of her in this well rounded epistle driven storm of a chapter?

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69:17

Episode 155 - This Guy? "Dreaming Of You" By Lisa...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/05/25

This week, yr grls at long last encounter Derek Craven in "DREAMING OF YOU" by Miss Massachu herself LISA KLEYPAS. It is time for Morgan and Isabeau to wade into this collaboration with Shelf Love. You probably already know this - but Sarah is a regency country mouse who is secretly a best-selling novelist. Facing the dreaded sophomore slump, she seeks out a real Gambling Hell to research her next novel and instead finds Derek Craven. Derek's a gutter baby cum Cockney made good by establishing the

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72:25

Whoa-llab w/ Shelf Love Part 1 - 140. Dreaming of...

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/05/18

This episode we embark on a Duologoy, a duet of sorts with Shelf Love. In an attempt to highlight the manifold approaches one can have to a single text, we are each, discretely, discussing DREAMING OF YOU by Lisa Kleypas. We have not listened to one another's discussions prior to recording/editing our own episodes, so there might be cross-over, but that will be as interesting as the unique points we each explore. Because, as our Vice President so aptly observed, who doesn't love Venn Diagrams? Shelf

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21:46

P&p25

Whoa!mance: Romance and Ourselves ·

2023/05/18

P&p25 by Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves

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