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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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01:24:24

The Bride by Julie Garwood

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/06/24

Jamie is fiery! She has a horse named Wildfire that she likes to ride bareback! She is beloved by all and has zero flaws except... a terrible sense of direction! Alec is... large! And rude! And none of these people know a damn thing about medieval Scotland! You got it, it's Julie Garwood's The Bride!

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42:35

Blackout

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/06/13

In this episode we take a timeout to reflect on the ghastly history of racial violence in America by doing a deep dive into South Carolina's ugliest past and inviting Leslie from Geeky Girls' Night In and Geeky Girls' Guide to Life to speak. The first two segments carry strong content warnings about murder, legal lynching, and a police shooting mischaracterized as a riot. If you'd like to skip to Leslie's emotional segment, you can start around the 35 minute mark.

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01:21:36

Irish Thoroughbred by Nora Roberts

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/04/14

Irish Thoroughbred is Nora Roberts' first book - we wanted to see where one of the richest, most popular authors around got her start. Well. It is something. Adelia lives in 16th century Ireland and has lost everything, so she gets on a plane to 1980 and becomes a horse trainer! Horse girl alert: THIS IS NOT A HORSE GIRL BOOK. I have read a lot, you guys, a lot of books with horse races in them and I can assure you that these horse races are the least exciting horse races in the world.

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28:39

To Have and to Hoax

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/04/07

We had the opportunity to try something new - we were asked if we'd like to interview debut author Martha Waters about her book To Have and to Hoax, you know, back then when the world was young and we were allowed to leave our houses. Martha was really nice and we feel really bad that all her fun book release party stuff got cancelled - however, she's doing a virtual launch Tuesday April 7th on Instagram at 7 PM EST so maybe go join her there. To Have and to Hoax is a Publisher's Weekly

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01:49:18

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/03/21

Let us make your social distancing easier with tits and dragons! Join us in your isolation suite with my last 4 for 40 - Anne McCaffery's Dragonflight.

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01:23:48

Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/03/01

This isn't really a romance novel - for you young people, this is an extinct breed. It's an airport book. It's about rich people doing awful rich people things and it never forgets to mention a brand name. It's about Poor Little Rich Girl Elizabeth whose father seems to have accidentally set up a tontine in the family business - only one of her cousins is actually trying to murder her but honestly, they all want to and it might as well have been any of them so does it really matter which one it

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01:47:17

Message from Nam by Danielle Steel

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/02/11

Avoid accidentally making eye contact with Paxton Andrews. If you absolutely must enter a room with Paxton Andrews take extreme precautions so you don't die horribly in the Vietnam War. It's pretty good for her career as a journalist tho. This one has no sexual assault but it does have a horrible pointless war, an awful murder-suicide, bombings, screaming, howling, and a mammy. (YES A MAMMY. Yeah I wasn't expecting that either.) You got it, we're reading Message from Nam as our second 4 for 40

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Message from Nam

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/02/11

Avoid accidentally making eye contact with Paxton Andrews. If you absolutely must enter a room with Paxton Andrews take extreme precautions so you don't die horribly in the Vietnam War. It's pretty good for her career as a journalist tho. This one has no sexual assault but it does have a horrible pointless war, an awful murder-suicide, bombings, screaming, howling, and a mammy. (YES A MAMMY. Yeah I wasn't expecting that either.) You got it, we're reading Message from Nam as our second 4 for 40

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Message from Nam

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/02/11

Avoid accidentally making eye contact with Paxton Andrews. If you absolutely must enter a room with Paxton Andrews take extreme precautions so you don't die horribly in the Vietnam War. It's pretty good for her career as a journalist tho. This one has no sexual assault but it does have a horrible pointless war, an awful murder-suicide, bombings, screaming, howling, and a mammy. (YES A MAMMY. Yeah I wasn't expecting that either.) You got it, we're reading Message from Nam as our second 4 for 40

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42:01

The Boyfriend by RL Stine

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/01/27

Monstrous teenagers and teenage monsters! Thrill as mean teenagers fake deaths, fake zombiefication, fake other deaths, and then can't figure out why nobody likes them! Chill as everybody has a silly expensive car but no moral compass whatsoever! It's 2 AM, do your children know how to close and lock a window? Joanna is a stuck up bitch. Her boyfriend Dex is an insane gaslighting.... secret prosthetic makeup expert? When Dex falls off a cliff and dies, Joanna keeps seeing him around, like, at

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01:43:17

Morning Glory by Lavyrle Spencer

Bodice Tipplers ·

2020/01/14

It's LaVyrle Spencer's Morning Glory, a book about not much in particular except the deep meaning of the heart until there's a war and then a... murder framin'? This book has no nonconsensual sex but it does have a lot of discussion of childhood trauma, the past-tense murder of a sex worker, and some seriously weird slut shaming and then murdering of another woman which is really tonally weird and we expected better of you, LaVyrle. We read this book because Amazing Human Beverly Jenkins mentioned

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21:35

Holiday Outing

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/12/27

We're continuing our annual tradition of doing a modern gay Hanukkah romance for the holiday! This time we've got Holiday Outing by Astrid Amara. This is a sweet little novella about a guy going home for the holidays with the intention of coming out to his parents but getting trapped in a house with way too many aunts and uncles and fucking a gastroenterologist. Also there's detecting! And periling! And art! Hanukkah Sameach!

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47:21

Gabriel's Angel

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/12/24

Merry Christmas! For the holiday we read Nora Roberts' Gabriel's Angel. Despite this being listed as a Christmas book in Novelist! Despite this having holly and a fucking snow globe on the cover of the reissue! THIS IS NOT A GODDAMNED CHRISTMAS BOOK. I have feelings about this. BIG FEELINGS.

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02:11:37

Sweet Liar

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/12/15

He's a rich Taggart romance-novel-dude powerlifter with a big family and a sweet townhouse! She's an emotionally locked down country mouse forced by one of those Improbable Wills to go to New York for a few years to investigate a crime that may or may not have happened to her dead or not dead grandmother and then they... put on a show about it. Seriously, there is no way to describe this book, you just have to experience it. There's no present-day sexual violence in this book, but her ex-husband

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01:34:09

Thanksgiving SUPERSPECIAL (featuring Carved in Stone)

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/11/24

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01:07:30

Ghost of a Chance

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/11/01

Welcome to our Halloween Episode. Buckle Up Bitches. For this episode we read Jayne Ann Krentz’s Ghost of a Chance. Published in 1984 this book was part of the Harlequin Temptation line. It is one of the earliest in the supernatural romance genre. On paper this book should be a Banger! Our heroine, Anne Silver is out to catch some phony psychics who are really cat burgers. They ran her brother over with a car when he got too close to the truth! For help, Ann enlists the help of an ex CIA agent

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54:53

Warrior's Woman

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/10/22

Here we go again with my nominee for "Most Likely to Catch an Intervention For Smoking Strawberry-Flavored Crack", Johanna Lindsey! Finally, we've read one of the kind of books I was really expecting to come across when we started doing this podcast - the kind of book I wrote our long and thoughtful On Language and Consent page about and then for some reason it's turned out we haven't needed it much. But then we came to this one. Warrior's Woman by Johanna Lindsey.

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01:14:17

Shadow of the Lynx

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/10/01

I read this when I was a kid and it gave me VERY WEIRD KID IDEAS. Now I'm returning to it and it is... even more fucked up than I expected? Nora is one of those freshly orphaned smart Vicky Holt girls. Charles Herrick, aka the Lynx, is a... brilliant sex monster? It's hard to explain. There's another dude too. And a whole other family. Is this even a romance novel? Is this maybe a thriller? I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE. This is going to be okay for most people but there's definitely an extremely

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01:09:41

Clan of the Cave Bear

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/09/15

Ayla is an anatomically modern human (is it technically Cro Magnon? This is set in modern day Ukraine. To the Wikipedia!) orphaned and raised by a tribe of psychic Neanderthals. This one isn't the one with all the doin' it (evidently that is Valley of the Horses which also has a bunch of blonde dudes who shop at Cave-REI), it's the one with a ton of rape and abuse in it.

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01:45:53

Guiding Light: Jonathan's Story

Bodice Tipplers ·

2019/08/30

Jonathan, allegedly hot bad boy of Springfield, fakes his death and flees with his also-fake-dead baby daughter to start a new life away from the clutches of bazillionare Alan Spaulding. Will he find love with Tammy, fellow Radiohound fan? Or will her Bad Dad literally fucking kill them all? LET'S FIND OUT in this, I kid you not, Guiding Light book which came out in hardback.

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