S03.06: We Are Grateful For You - Freewheeling with Sarah & Jen

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Sep 21

This is a tough week for everyone, so we did what we could do to make ourselves feel a little bit more ourselves despite existential despair—we recorded a podcast. We’re all over the place (we promise this won’t be a theme for the whole season!), but we recommend a TON of books, which is basically all we can do.

We’ve got another episode for you later this week, and next week, we’re deep diving on Alisha Rai’s Serving Pleasure, which is a fantastic erotic romance. Find it at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Apple Books or Bookshop.org.

Also -- Sarah has a contemporary novella out September 15th! Preorder the Naughty Brits anthology, wherever you get your ebooks: Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Apple, or in print at bookshop.org.

First Things First

"Despair is not a strategy."

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Show Notes

The intro music this week is a section from Ani DiFranco’s cover of Pete Seeger’s Which Side Are You On?.

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls is available wherever books are sold, and you can listen to the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. The RBG episode is here.

You can watch a documentary about RBG, or read the Notorious RBG book, or wear the RBG dissent collar now.

RBG's "When there are nine," quote is: "When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough {women on the Supreme Court}?' and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."

Tom Hardy might be James Bond and we're fine with it. Melissa did some great work pairing pictures of Tom Hardy as Sarah MacLean covers. Here's a thread of Henry Cavill as Sarah MacLean covers, too. Let it be known Sarah has the best readers around.

The Jurgen Klopp thread from comedian Laura Lexx is a thing of great beauty.

These Fifty Shades movies are terrible but we can't stop watching them and we don't understand it either, you guys.

Masquerades are great. We talked about how historicals do masquerades more than contemporaries, and we couldn't name any contemporaries with masquerades, but then Sarah immediately picked up the Dark Fairy Tales anthology, which is brand new, 99 cents, and in which all the stories are connected by a masque. You should get it. You deserve nice things.

Also, the fact that we didn't mention Sweet Ruin is causing Sarah some pretty deep shame.

You should wear your undies over your garters. Dita Von Teese confirms this. Apparently this is referred to as "The French Way."

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