S05.42: The Bride by Julie Garwood: A Primordial RomCom

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

We were devastated to learn of the passing of Julie Garwood, honest to God romance doyenne, last month. Garwood installed many of our buttons, and the buttons of so many romance readers who came up reading “The Four J’s,” and, more importantly, paved the way for historicals with humor. She was, without question, a trailblazer. While we were unable to interview her for our trailblazer series, we couldn’t let her passing go without an episode, so please enjoy our read along of The Bride, which is a nearly perfect book even now, decades after she wrote it. While our thoughts are with with Julie Garwood’s family, her friends, and the legions of readers she delighted over her long and legendary career, our endless gratitude is with Julie Garwood herself—for the laughter, the sighs, and the absolute bangers that were her books.

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0:00.0	Well, we threw out the plan, and now we're... Of course. I mean, we always throw out the plan.
0:05.5	We are here in remembrance today of Julie Garwood. So we have a couple... We mostly think of this as a read-a-long episode of The Bride, which we have mentioned many times, and we decided to just like go back to our, right?
0:19.0	Go back to our groups.
0:20.0	Which we mentioned on last week's episode in Heroins and STEM,
0:24.0	which we recorded before we heard the terrible news that Julie Garwood has passed away.
0:32.0	First of all, this is Fated Mates everyone.
0:34.0	Welcome.
0:35.0	I'm Sarah McClain.
0:36.0	I read romance novels and I write them.
0:38.0	And I'm Jennifer Rook up.
0:40.0	A romance reader today.
0:41.0	Just a reader.
0:42.0	Oh, yeah. Because we're going to talk about a woman who
0:46.0	installed many many many buttons for us. I think every button was installed
0:51.0	by doing for me. That installed a lot of buttons.
0:54.0	But first let's talk about, well, I don't even know what to say.
1:01.3	Well, you were very sad. We okay we're yes I mean I think and we
1:06.3	mentioned this on our like a banter plus episode that's also going to be
1:10.4	dropping for our patrons this week, but, you know, we tried to get Julie
1:17.0	Garwood as a trailblazer.
1:20.0	If you, we were not able to, however, she did appear pretty recently on the Smart Bitches podcast,
1:26.7	so we will put a link to that in show note. So if you've never heard her speaking,
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