BT077. BT bloggers: The glory days
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Guest: and | Host: | Audio producer: | Recorded: 21/12/2020 Sydney This conversation was recorded at the end of 2020. I’ve been so slack about releasing the episode that Rudi has been distributing bootleg copies of the audio. We talk about significant reading moments, man-hymens, sex positions that destabilise the patriarchy, problematic faves, and our love for a good grovel. Also: Gabby ghosts us, and some of us come prepared with dick quotes. Guest Rudi Bremer — Long-suffering audio producer and recommender of books: | Gabby — Wearer of socks and...
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BT076. BT bloggers: The glory days
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Navigating Goodreads and taking on the reading challenge
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BT075. Anna Cowan: Break the taboo
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Anna Cowan, Australian author of historical romance, talks about exploring the power structures of gender in her writing, and what she's been up to since publishing Untamed. She talks about trying to write her second book while raising children, and we have an incredibly honest conversation about the struggle to manage motherhood with personal ambition. Anna names some of her favourite queer romances, and drops some tidbits about her current work in progress!
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BT074. BT bloggers: Understanding the chemistry
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Rudi, Gabby and Kat finally manage to read the same book in time for this episode. We talk about The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite, WLW books, the role of tension in romance, and women's hobbies.
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BT073. Podversary 4: Petty and holding grudges
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We turned 4 in August (hurrah!), so of course we're bringing you our anniversary special in November. Because that's how we (ie Kat) roll. As usual, Rudi is the architect of all shenanigans, and this year, she's assisted by some of our podcast listeners!
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Sophie Ly: Romancing her with some spaghetti - BT072
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Romance reader Sophie Ly taks to Kat and Rudi about why she loves graphic novels, and gives us some recommendations for series with strong romantic arcs.
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BT071. BT bloggers: Bookish betrayals
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The Book Thingo bloggers decided to knock one book off our TBR piles. Spoiler alert: only one of us actually did the work, and you get no prizes for guessing who. We also talk about the books we lie about having read, books we feel guilty about not having read, and romance classics that didn't really work for us.
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BT070. Aislinn Kearns: Stay away from the beans
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What happens when you combine a love of 80s action films with romance genre tropes? You get Ainslinn Kearns's books! Rudi and I caught up with Aislinn at the Romance Writers of Australia convention last year, and we talked about romance characters with disability, favourite tropes, and dealing with food intolerance in the apocalypse.
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BT069. #RomBkLove: Rebellious readers
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Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about our personal reading rules and habits, and how they affect our enjoyment of books. #RomBkLove, the brainchild of the amazing Ana Coqui, is a month-long celebration of romance books, authors and readers. Book Thingo is excited to host today's topic: Rebellious readers.
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Melanie Milburne: I've always felt the tension - BT068
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Aussie author Melanie Milbourne talks about changing her approach to writing heroes, reconciling feminism with problematic romance tropes, and some of the books she's reading.
info_outlineGuests: Sophie Ly and Rudi Bremer | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 9/06/2019 Sydney
I've been sitting on this episode for a little while, but hold on to your one-click buttons because Sophie Ly joins Rudi and me with a huge number of graphic novel recommendations. (But please note: not all of them are HEA romances, but we try to identify which of the titles fall into that bucket. We do also talk about the difficulty of knowing if a graphic novel series will have a romantic HEA.)
Shout out to Vikki, who tweeted in response to our #rombklove episode (EP69). If you're on Twitter and listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to live tweet or just send us your reactions by using the hashtag #btpod.
Guests
Sophie Ly -- Host of Gaggle of Geeks podcast, and best known on the Book Things podcast as Rudi's alter ego: @Soph_Ly; podcast
Rudi Bremer -- Amazing audio producer and recommender of books: @rudi_bee
Books
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Twilight graphic novels by Stephenie Meyer and Young Kim [ review]
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- The Umbrella Academy Volume 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Sunstone by Stjepan Šejić
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Witchblade by David Wohl, Brian Haberlin and Michael Turner
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Nightwing
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Black Magic by Nicola Scott
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Fresh Romance Volume 1
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Lucifer by Neil Gaiman
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Sandman by Neil Gaiman
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Saga by Ryan K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Runaways by Ryan K. Vaughan
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Anita Blake graphic novels by Laurell K. Hamilton
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Mercy Thompson graphic novels by Patricia Briggs
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Great Expectations graphic novel by Charles Dickens
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Mills & Boon comics
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Tikka Chance On Me by Suleikha Snyder
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward (Rhage)
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Stranded With a Mountain Man by Aislinn Kearns
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Blossom Among Flowers by Jay E. Tria
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Sidekick by Auralee Wallace
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Birds of Prey by Gail Simone
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Locked Box by Eve Dangerfield
- BD | BT | Amz | Aud -- Fence by C.S. Pacat
People
Dustin Nguyen, Fiona Staples, Nicola Scott, Chris Evans
Links
- Gaggle of Geeks(podcast) -- Weekly wrap-up on geek and popular culture co-hosted by Sophie
- BT podcast 2nd anniversary episode
- Nightwing's butt
- Comixology
- Chris Evans chopping logs
- iTunes | Amazon -- Interview With a Vampire (Film)
- Netflix| Amazon -- Boys Over Flowers (TV)
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