S06.08: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale: Romance Math

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re reading an absolute romance classic — one of those books everyone tells you is a must read, and one that neither of us had read before the podcast! We’re taking a few minutes at the top to admit our mutual folly, though, because Flowers from the Storm is stunning, and we now feel grown up enough to appreciate it. We talk about Quakers, about dogs and kittens and apes, about men with pirate smiles and vengeance in their heart, about thees and thous, about capitalism and happily ever after and about how internal conflict can sometimes be the most difficult hurdle to overcome. Also, we find an undeniable reason to learn trigonometry.

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0:00.0	Well, that is good news, because it's
0:05.7	well that is good news because 600 pages,
0:09.6	I mean a commitment, a commitment. A commitment.
0:13.0	Welcome everyone to Fated Mates.
0:15.0	I'm Sarah McClain.
0:17.0	I read romance novels and I write them.
0:19.0	And I'm Jennifer Prokop, a romance reader and editor.
0:23.2	And this week we are reading
0:25.6	Top Three Book of All Time for Kate Claiborne.
0:28.8	Laura Kinsell's Flowers from the Storm. Which is a legend.
0:34.0	It's a, this is a legendary book, yes, absolutely.
0:37.0	It is a text that is invoked all the time in romance.
0:42.0	It is a text that I tried to read when I was a teenager.
0:48.0	Oh interesting, okay.
0:50.0	And decided pretty much like straight out of the gate.
0:55.6	Because this is published in 1992.
0:57.9	These though Sarah was not online yet.
1:00.2	Listen, I can remember trying this when I was like 15 or 16 and being like what even
1:10.6	is happening here and I put it down and then I told myself I was not a kid's
1:15.9	so thin. And like not for any reason other than like not because I like didn't like it or didn't, it just not for me be thou this Quaker this Quaker and this
1:27.1	Duke with aphasia after a stroke I think and in are books that just don't speak to you when you're a teenager.
1:42.6	And then when you're a grown woman who's lived a life,
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