S02.30: Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips : Grandma has her Shotgun

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We are feeling really proud of ourselves this week because Nobody’s Baby But Mine was the perfect isolation read for us both. The reread confirmed to both of us that this is, beat-for-beat, one of the best romcoms of all time. We’re talking problematic plots, the 90s, what we expect from jerk heroes and how Susan Elizabeth Phillips is better at flawed characters than anyone else in the game.

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0:00.0	Jen I'm so proud of us. We picked the right book this week. We picked the right book I have
0:10.3	not been able to read all week.
0:12.6	And I mean, I think there's all of us, right?
0:15.0	It's so hard.
0:15.7	And I picked this up to read it and read it in one sitting.
0:20.2	I fell right into it.
0:21.9	And then halfway through, I texted Susan and I was like
0:25.9	Susan I'm re-reading nobody's baby but mine right now and I just had to text you to tell you that you are a genius and this book is like as
0:37.2	wonderful as it was in when I read it the first time. Yeah, I mean it's better now it's better because I'm older.
0:46.3	Like it's better because I get it more. I was telling Kate that I read this book the first time when I was 10 years
0:55.1	younger than they were and now I'm 10 years older. So that is also really wild.
1:00.8	Yeah it really changes things. Anyway, welcome everybody to Fated Mates.
1:05.8	I am Sarah McClain.
1:08.4	I write romance novels and I read romance novels.
1:11.8	And I'm Jen Procop. I'm a romance critic and a shit talker on
1:14.7	Twitter. A real big shit talker these days man. You're like I'm sorry everybody.
1:24.0	We're all trying to deal with it in our own way.
1:26.0	We're all just getting through.
1:28.0	Jen is a Scorpio.
1:29.0	It just happens sometimes.
1:31.0	It's true.
1:32.0	I've been actually trying to stay off because it's hard. Twitter is hard.
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