S02.10: Amnesia Romance Novels

Next week, we’re switching things up and running a full recommendation podcast! You asked us questions, and we’re recommending a metric romance ton of books! Don’t miss it!In two weeks, we’re going to a classic of classics! The read was on both Jen & Sarah’s list—Loretta Chase’s Lord of Scoundrels, which is on the lions’ share of Best Romance Novels Ever lists. We’ll get into why. Read Lord of Scoundrels at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo or your local indie.Show NotesListen, it's Eric FONER. He's kind of a big deal.More about how brains develop.A twitter thread about Sarah's brain surgeon.The kind of Amnesia in books and movies isn't real, but in case you were wondering, all about global amnesia and aphasia.Jen & Sarah have seen the 80s version of Overboard 100 times, and the 2018 version no times.Speaking of Pregneisa... on the podcast I Don't Even Own a Television, these two guys mostly read it to make fun of it, but then listen to just this snippet of Jeb Lund TOTALLY GETTING ROMANCE.Kylie Scott does write about zombies, and threesomes, and rock stars, and getting with your Dad's best friend.Jen did write about Lies as an example of an Unreliable Narrator, but she still enjoyed the book!Jen couldn't locate the future/present/past thread on twitter, but this is a placeholder in case she ever does.No one liked that Chris Pratt movie.All about that incel bullshit.The Silent Towns is a short story by Ray Bradbury in The Martian Chronicles---which Jen really liked for the most part! Try There will Come Soft Rains instead.The Last Man on Earth is a TV show and While You Were Sleeping was a movie.Jen likes the scummy, sexy white boy thing Matthew McConaughey has going on."Don't You Forget About Me" is the theme song to The Breakfast Club. No one had amnesia in the movie, they were just teenagers likely to be shitty to each other.What's Fair Use?Buy buttons from Kelly and shirts from Jordandené.Ashley from Southern California was blooded by The Duchess War by Courtney MilanNext week we're doing the first of our big romance recommendation podcasts, but get reading Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase -- it's our next read!The RestFor even more info about this episode, and to explore everything Fated Mates has to offer, visit: https://fatedmates.net/episodes/2019/11/11/s0210-amnesia-romance-interstitial If you wish you had six more days in a week of people talking about romance, may we suggest joining our Patreon? Aside from an additional episode every month you get access to our Discord, where other romance readers are talking about books they love (and many other things!) all the time. It’s so fun! Learn more about the Patreon and go join those cool people who love romance as much as you do at patreon.com/fatedmates. Beyond your favorite podcast app, you can find us on Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, Tumblr, and probably some other places, too, if you look hard enough. If you've never listened to our Stop Book Banning episode, there's no better time than now.