Episodes
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Rudi, Gabby and Kat 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.
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Reunited once more, the BT bloggers take on the Goodreads reading challenge.
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Missing episodes?
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Anna Cowan talks about life after Untamed, the struggle to manage motherhood with personal ambition, and some of her queer romance recs.
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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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What happens when one of the Book Thingo bloggers moves overseas?
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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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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.
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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!
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Guests: Rudi and Gabby | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 23/05/2019 Sydney #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. In this episode, we thought it would be a good time to take a pause […]
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Guest: Melanie Milburne | Host: Kat Mayo | Audio producer: Rudi Bremer | Recorded: 18/08/2018 RWAus When I heard Melanie Milburne’s keynote at the 2018 Australian Romance Readers’ Award, I knew we had to have her on the show. Her speech as a powerful personal statement about reconciling her feminism and her writing career. It as powerful because it […]
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To celebrate Valentine's Day, Gabby, Rudi and Kat talk about the ways we give and receive love, and more importantly, how we like to read the expression of love.
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Aussie author Amy Andrews talks about the Women of W.A.R. series, featuring women AFL players and the heroes who love them. We also explore the issue of safe sex in romance, and Amy gives us some reading recommendations.
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In our first interview from the conference, we talk about the function of nonconsensual scenes in the history of romance, what happy endings look like in different cultures, condoms in romance, power politics, and cultural conversations.
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What better way to celebrate the new year than with our (super very) belated podcast anniversary episode! Once again, Rudi has organised a special treat for us -- we're playing Book Thingo bingo!
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Gabby has taken over the podcast, because in this episode we talk about a topic I know nothing about -- One Direction fandom.
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Romance readers read aloud from some of their favourite books. Plus, Rudi, Gabby and Kat talk about politics in romance, debate the merits of Passion, and generally meander through random topics.
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Author Jennifer Hallock explains her IASPR paper on chronotopes in historical romance, and why our familiarity with Regency romance might be hindering us from appreciating romances set in other historical settings. We talk about the additional work that authors of diverse historical romance have to do to construct their stories, and some of the challenges that Jennifer faced when writing her own books. (And a bonus for fans of Father Andres: We talk about his defrocking!)
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Rudi, Gabby and Kat discuss the controversial AAR Top 100 Romances list.
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Carla de Guzman talks about plus-size heroines, cultural baggage, and living the tita life.
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On day 23 of #RomBkLove month, we talk about the books that made us fall in love with romance fiction.
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