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Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

S05.40: STEM Heroines in Romance Novels

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Documentary, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.9965 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It’s heroines in science week here at Fated Mates! STEM heroines are having a resurgence in romance, in no small part because of the rise of “STEMinist romcoms” (citation: Ali Hazelwood and Elena Armas), but we’re talking about everything from astronauts and archeologists to explosives experts and healers and we’ve got a list of books we love throughout romance history. That, and we already talked about The Love Hypothesis earlier this season, so we’re filling your TBR with books you might not have found already. You’ll find historicals, contemporaries, and paranormals on this episode — pick your pleasure!

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It is the end of days there and then I feel bad because you're actually living through it

0:07.0

but I saw a really funny tweet that like made it look like Godzilla was on the skyline

0:15.9

and I was like oh maybe I should send this to Sarah and I was like oh maybe I should send this to Sarah and I was like is it too soon? No, it's really not too soon because so I everybody I live in New York City

0:20.3

Welcome everybody to fade it makes I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write

0:26.1

them and I'm currently living in apocalypse possibly. Yes, very bad. Who are you?

0:35.0

What do you mean?

0:36.0

You're supposed to introduce yourself?

0:37.0

Oh, I was like, I don't know.

0:39.0

What do you know?

0:40.0

I was like, I'm not living in an apocalypse.

0:42.0

I'm living in Chicago.

0:43.0

Tell everyone who you are Jen. I'm Jennifer Procop a romance reader and mother of a

0:50.8

college-age student who does not have a job.

0:53.8

Leave that baby alone, he's fine.

0:56.6

No, he needs a job.

0:57.6

I didn't realize I was going to turn into this person.

0:59.7

I was driving home from work today.

1:01.5

One of my life. And I was like, oh shit, that's who I am now I'm like angry mom you don't have a job

1:07.8

yet it was a lot you guys we got on she's giving him the what for well I was just trying to protect

1:14.2

it's when Mr Reed romance comes home it's gonna be how many jobs do you apply

1:18.4

for it's to give a report exactly it needs to be like I applied for this many jobs.

1:23.4

Oh my goodness.

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