S07:12 Romance Novels Featuring Bookstores and Booksellers

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

It's Thanksgiving week in the United States, which means capitalism! We're skipping (mainly) the talk of the midnight electronics runs, and heading straight to Small Business Saturday, when your local independent bookseller is doing their very best to put great books in your hands. Ever been in your local bookstore and thought -- I wish this place was the setting of a romance novel? We've got you, friends.

We talk about the magic of bookstores, about the importance of small businesses, about bookshops as sites for revolution, and about the appeal of running your own little shop around the corner. And we recommend a bunch of books that are...honestly? Charming AF.

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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

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange
The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean
The Vampire in the Bookstore by Elle M. Drew
Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee
Once Upon a Charming Bookshop by Heatherly Bell
A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles
Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello
Taken by Charlotte Stein
Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley
Better than Fiction by Alexa Martin
Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever by Molly Harper
The Earl Takes a Fancy by Lorraine Heath

Seven Secrets of Seduction

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Thanksgiving week.
0:01.8	If you're in the United States, happy long weekend.
0:05.4	Yeah, that's as much as I can give you this year.
0:08.7	If you are in the kitchen, making a lot of food and enjoying it, I am excited for you.
0:16.4	People have already, it's Wednesday, people are like the cooks among us, including myself.
0:22.2	I am currently in a kitchen somewhere with my sister.
0:26.0	I'm not.
0:26.8	I'm in a car somewhere.
0:27.7	Driving.
0:29.6	Driving to my moms in Ohio.
0:32.1	As Jen just reminded me, Friday is Black Friday.
0:35.8	Just.
0:36.3	Sure.
0:37.3	People. So Black Friday is when you like Just sure. People.
0:38.3	So Black Friday is when you like go to Target and buy a TV.
0:42.5	Small business Saturday is the one we're going to talk about in a minute.
0:45.6	And then Cyber Monday is when you go online and spend all your money.
0:48.9	And then basically you're done Christmas shopping.
0:50.8	And then there's giving Tuesday.
0:51.9	Now we've just got a whole thing.
0:53.7	Sure.
0:54.3	It's like a whole week where you spend money you don't have.
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