S07:10 Comfort Reads and Finding Solace in Romance
Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast
Fated Mates
4.9 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Like many people, we don't have much to say this week, and whatever we might have said probably wouldn't have been very eloquent, so we've decided to talk about something we know about: Comfort reading and the way romance provides us solace, peace and hope.
This week's books are our old reliables--books that we turn to again and again for a reminder that love triumphs, hope sings and romance is resolute. We're so happy you're here; we are, too, for as long as you'll have us.
If you want more romance content, maybe you want to join our Patreon, where you get another episode from us each month, and access to the incredible readers and listeners and brilliant people on the Fated Mates discord! Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon.
Our next read along is Judith Ivory's The Proposition, a terrific Pygmalion retelling and one of Sarah's favorites. Find it at your local independent bookseller, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or Amazon.
The Books
- The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath
- Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole
- A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane
- Butcher & Blackbird by Brynn Weaver
- A Proposal They Can’t Refuse by Natalie Cana
- Scoring Off the Field by Naima Simone
- On the Hustle by Adriana Herrera
- Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells
- Chain Lightning by Elizabeth Lowell
- Secret Santa & All He Wants for Christmas by Kati Wilde
- The Proposition by Judith Ivory
- Tycoon by Joanna Shupe
The Notes
- We’ve talked about “Break in Case of Emergency” reads on an episode back from 2022, and comfort reads with Dani Lacey back in 2020. Kaitlyn Greenidge sent out a substack with
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| 0:00.0 | I have a friend who today this morning was like, I'm driving upstate. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm going to, I scheduled a silent meditation retreat for today. |
| 0:11.2 | All right. |
| 0:11.7 | And I was like, how's that going to go? |
| 0:15.1 | I would like to not be alone for my feelings right now. |
| 0:17.6 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:18.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:22.3 | I scheduled a meeting with a stranger this week for some reason unknown to anyone. |
| 0:31.9 | And Adriana was like, Sarah, you cannot be raw-dogging strangers this week. |
| 0:38.9 | Raw-doging them for coffee. |
| 0:41.6 | But then that person actually, that person canceled because there was a train fire. |
| 0:46.7 | And I was like, listen, that feels on brand. |
| 0:50.0 | Let's do it another time. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome to the train fire. |
| 0:52.6 | Anyway, how is everyone out there? |
| 0:56.6 | We're terrible, but we are here for you. |
| 1:05.3 | Welcome everyone to Feta Mates. I'm Sarah McLean. I read romance novels and I write. And you cure ballots. |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah, well, I'm curing ballots right now. We'll talk about it after this other person here introduces herself. I'm Jennifer Procop, a romance reader and editor. And it's election, it's the week after the election here in the United States. And I don't know if you've heard, but it didn't go super great for Jen and me. |
| 1:34.3 | And it's really about us. |
| 1:36.7 | Oh, listen. |
| 1:41.1 | Okay, so let's talk about what we're going to do today and then people can decide their bandwidth for listening. |
| 1:43.2 | I think we're going to do great today. |
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