You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host Vanessa Diaz and this is episode 468.5 airing on Friday, June 21st.

And today I'm going to tell you about a couple of romances and not just romances, historical romances to be specific.

Why romances, why now? Well, I mean obviously it's always a good time to read a romance, first of all, but really there are two reasons one is I'm

freshly off a rewatch really at this point of Bridgerton season three like so many

people are and also I jumped in to do some bibliologisting, because that's a word for

TBR, our tailored book recommendations service, where I got to be one of the bibliologists that

helps to hand-pick books for people who are

looking for recommendations on what books to read based on what they already know in love what they want to

read more of etc and I got someone who was looking for romance actually a couple of

someone's and so that just really actually a couple of someone's.

And so that just really got me thinking that it's been a bit

since I've read a historical romance for whatever reason.

And A, I want to go back and now do more of that.

And I figured I would tell you about two of my early favorites,

and I mean early and night romance reading career.

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