Episode 107: The Category is....My Sister's Mister — How Can The Heart Forget? by Emilie Loring
Episode 107: The Category is....My Sister's Mister — How Can The Heart Forget? by Emilie Loring

Category Is: Posthumously Published Triangular Caper

Answer: “How Can The Heart Forget” by: Emilie Loring

Question: What if Nancy Drew never left the suburbs and was also in love with sister’s fiancee?

This week, Morgan and Isabeau kick off our “Category Is” series with plenty of zip and dash all the way from 1961.

How does it feel to find out you’re on a political treadmill next to Donna Reed? Does depth of story require depth of character? Does choice feminism still count if the choice is a wool suit or a ball gown? Who IS going to the Country Club dance?

Button that dress that sets off your eyes to the neck. The weather for this triple wedding is bitingly cold.

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Whoa!Nus: The Category Is.....
Whoa!Nus: The Category Is.....

Answer: Announcing an exploration into the oft overlooked but undeniably pervasive works known as Category Romance.

Answer, but in the form of a question: What is the topic of this week's Whoa!nus?

Yr girls Isabeau & Morgan are excited to share their big summer plans: CATEGORY IS. Each week a new Category Romance (from Isabeau’s own random box of romance) published in a different post-war-pre-low-rise-jeans decade.

Monthly Doubles on the board, category is: Category Is.

This week’s episode of Whoa!mance is brought to you by An Earl, The Girl and a Toddler by Vanessa Riley. Available now from Kensington Books.

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Jane Eyre Read Along — Chapter Twenty-Five
Jane Eyre Read Along — Chapter Twenty-Five

As the wedding day draws closer, Jane is taking stock of her new identity: that of the amorphous Mrs. Rochester. This week, Jane revisits the now lightning scared chestnut tree, reveals to have been befallen by a series of disquieting dreams, and confronts an incredulous Mr. Rochester directly when her nightmares trip-trap into her waking life. Is it cold feet, Grace Pool, or something far more sinister?

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Episode 106: A Sticky Wicket The Marriage Pass
Episode 106: A Sticky Wicket The Marriage Pass

Sometimes being a “family man” is less playing catch and more swinging. This week on Whoa!mance, Morgan and Isabeau dish on Briana Cole’s melodramatic romantic suspense The Marriage Pass.

Dr. Dorian Graham just wants to be a good husband—or at least a better husband than he was a boyfriend. When his prim and proper wife, Shantae, offers to make his life easier with a one-night-only freebie, Dorian complicates things by cashing in his Get-Out-Of-Monogamy Free card with his own sister-in-law, the very very sexy and intense Raegan. But exactly who is weaving the tangled web here becomes less and less clear. Why does it feel so good being bad? Is blood always thicker than bubble bath water? Is your body image ever entirely your own? And can you ever really know a person when they’re a woman and you don’t really see women as people? Give that amber liquid another swirl in the rocks glass ‘cause this one burns all the way down.

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Jane Eyre Read Along — Chapter Twenty-Three
Jane Eyre Read Along — Chapter Twenty-Three

Our girl is barely back at Thornfield Hall, and already the weather is looking stormy. This week, Jane catches a whiff of her super hot boss while walking alone in the garden, Mr. Rochester offers Jane a pity job for when he marries that old try hard Blanche Ingram, and briefly, Jane ponders life alone. But we all know what can happen when it rains.

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