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A Bookish Affair
by Shannon & Shannon
We're Shannon and Shandy, librarians and co-founders of the Lake Oswego Public Library's romance book club, A Bookish Affair. Join us as we explore the wide world of diverse, inclusive romance. Get ready to open your heart!
Episodes
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Episode 47: Steamy Lit Con Recap, Part 1: Let's Be Awkward Together
Greetings, all you shy billionaires and hopeless-romantic producers! In this episode, we'll begin to recap our epic road trip to the first annual Steamy Lit romance conference. We'll discuss thrilling author interactions, the pros and cons of traveling with a Prius full of books, and the...
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Episode 46: Celebrating Disability Pride Month in Romance and Beyond
Hello, all you toilet paper magnates and shipbuilding sweethearts! In our first episode in over a year, we share our favorite anti-ableist romances and authors in honor of Disability Pride Month. We'll discuss ABA beloveds Talia Hibbert, Chloe Liese, and Xan West, new favorites Evie Mitchell and...
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Episode 45: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Greetings, all you energetic harpies and lovelorn Cupids! In our longest episode yet (and that's really saying something, isn't it?), we'll take a look back at our favorite reads of 2021 and get excited for our most-anticipated books of 2022. We'll be taking a bit of a hiatus after this episode,...
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Episode 44: Faint Hearts Never Won Fair Ladies
Hello all you capable estate managers and independent heiresses! It's better late than never as we feature a heaping helping of holiday romance. We'll talk rom-coms, historical novellas, free online reads, and anthologies featuring Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Nochebuena, and many more holidays...
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Episode 43: Indigenous Voices in Romance
Greetings, all you efficient community organizers and laid-back band managers! In this episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of Heartbeat Braves and share our recent and upcoming reads by Indigenous romance authors. This is the first episode we've ever recorded from the same room, and it...
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Episode 42: Things They Don't Teach You In Library School
Greetings, all you growed-up little sisters and big brothers' bad boy BFFs! Join us as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a plethora of books and authors. Plus, we'll talk 2022 book club possibilities, totally work-related web searches, and what on earth was going on with that Bake Off...
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Episode 41: Don't Hide Your Pun Light Under A Bushel
Hello out there, all you captivating computer programmers and sexy secret agents! In this week's episode, we'll continue the lack of chill with our recap of the club's discussion of The Boyfriend Project...joined by none other than author Farrah Rochon! Plus, cabin chatter, smashing segues, and...
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Episode 40: Zero Chill Shannons Unite
Hello out there, all you foxy firefighters and sassy social media influencers! In this episode, you'll experience our complete lack of chill as we talk to and about famous romance authors in our Island Affair book club recap. Plus, category romance, cyborgs in love, and shangents galore! For...
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Episode 39: Can We Get a Book Club Fairy Godmother?
Hello, all you filmmaking foodies and high-powered attorneys! After an accidental summer break of several weeks, we're back to talk Juneteenth recipes, Meet Cute Club, the fantastical notion of a weekly book club, and whether purple, red, and green actually go together. We're so happy to be back...
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Episode 38: Listen To Their Voices
Greetings, all you long-lost princesses and inquisitive investigators! In this episode, we'll look back at a year spent listening to Black voices in romance and beyond. We'll rave about some of our favorite indie authors, highlight more LGBTQ+ stories, and recommend an awful lot of authors and...
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Episode 37: A Veritable Rainbow of New Releases
Greetings and salutations, all you buttoned-up accountants and free-spirited artists! In this episode, we'll discuss some of our favorite and most-anticipated LGBTQ+ romances of 2021. Plus, we'll talk Jello sculptures, middle school speech tournament selections, and (finally!) our September book...
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Episode 36: A Book Club Is A Beautiful Thing
Greetings, all you lusty list-makers and dashing dukes! In this week's episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of The Duke Who Didn't and freedive into a plethora of recent reads. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about attending a virtual book club…
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Episode 35: I Was Told There'd Be Kilts
Greetings, all you idealistic filmmakers and remote CEOs! In this episode, we've got angst: enemies-to-lovers, double grumps, super slow burns, and one very impatient (yet adorable) cat. Plus, a novella bonanza and a whole lot of Scot (but surprisingly few kilts). For readalikes, book lists, and...
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Episode 34: Dude, That Is ELEGANT!
Greetings and salutations, all you vivacious leading ladies and telenovela hunks! In this episode, we'll bring you a bit of lakeside birdsong, recap our book club discussion of You Had Me At Hola, and recommend some books that might bring a tear -- of one sort or another -- to your one good eye....
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Episode 33: If the Book Fits
Happy spring, all you big dreamers and Hollywood heartthrobs! This week, in our fourth recording of this possibly cursed episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of the Shannons' beloved If the Boot Fits. Plus, book hangovers, Shandy's dad reads romance, and some exciting news from the...
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Episode 32: Just Holding Down the Science of Attraction
Greetings, all you sassy schoolmarms and dashing cavalry officers! In this week's episode, we'll embark on our Beverly Jenkins reading challenge with Night Song, Vivid, Topaz, and more. Plus, pandemic facial hair (not ours), mustaches with character (also not ours), and, as always, a shangent or...
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Episode 31: Once More We Play Our Dangerous Game
Greetings, all you feisty football fans and courageous quarterbacks! In this week's episode, we'll talk Snapped, snowpocalypses, submarines, and smokin' smooches. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about attending a virtual book club meeting, or just to chat, find...
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Episode 30: A Lunar New Year Lovefest
Greetings, all you free-spirited artists and uptight pharmacists! In this week's episode, honoring the Lunar New Year, we'll talk books, authors, roasted chickens, pickled shallots, and rumors of snow. Happy Year of the Ox! For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about...
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Episode 29: Consent and Romance in Bridgerton and Beyond
Hello, all you lady swordfighters, scholarly lairds, and brawny yet insecure squires! In this week's episode, we'll talk about consent in Bridgerton and beyond. Please note that while the language used will be appropriate for an all-ages podcast, we will be describing and discussing situations…
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Episode 28: Their Convenient Podcast
Greetings, all you rebellious flappers and stoic shipping tycoons! In this episode, we'll talk about ways to emerge from the dreaded reading slump and list bonkers category romance titles until the cows come home. Plus, punny Christmas romance, Shandy defends her favorite number, and Shannon...
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Episode 27: Our Legging Game Is Strong
Greetings, all you flighty astrologers and grouchy Supreme Court justices! In today's episode, we'll recap the festival of power coats that was the Biden/Harris inauguration, sing the praises of the power legging, and even talk a bit about books! For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism...
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Episode 26: And People Say Romance Doesn't Make You Think
Greetings, all you soulful stargazers and artistic countesses! In this week's episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics. Plus, we'll talk bookstore anxiety dreams, disappearing astronomers, and some truly epic punny romance titles! For readalikes…
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Episode 25: Same Nerds, Different Year
Happy 2021, all you beleaguered dukes and spirited mistresses! In this week's episode (which, as you may be able to guess, we recorded on Wednesday morning!), join the mayor and deputy mayor of Nerdville as we tell you way more than you ever wanted to know about our 2020 reading stats and 2021...
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Episode 24: Jonathan Franzen Wasn't Even Considered
Hello, all you brilliant neurosurgeons and lonely chefs! In our last (!) episode of 2020, we'll recap our latest book club discussion and offer up our top tens of the year. Plus, we'll talk body positivity, social justice, and Christmas dinner. We'll be back in January! Thank you, listeners, for...
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Episode 23: Llove, Llights, and Llamas
Hello, all you seductive Scrooges and studly Santas! In this episode, we'll talk pink trees, tinsel llamas, and all things holiday romance. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about attending a virtual book club meeting, or just to chat, find us here or email us...
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Episode 22: The Mushy One
Hello and happy holidays, all you devilish rakes and pastry-loving detectives! In this week's episode, we embrace the mush as we sing the praises of the people, books, shows, snacks, and music that are getting us through 2020. Plus, our glowing guide to Portland bookstores, restaurants, and other...
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Episode 21: The Secret Lives of Manatees
Greetings and salutations, all you revenge-seeking sauce manufacturers and undercover dukes! In this episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of Silver Silence and talk about a true American hero who also happens to be a romance writer. Plus, Shannon reveals a some fascinating manatee facts,...
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Episode 20: Let's Just Invent A New Month
Greetings, all you bear changelings and romantic A.I.s! For our twentieth (!) episode, we'll take you to the room where it happens as we hash out our 2021 book club picks. For readalikes, book lists, and antiracism resources, to learn more about attending a virtual book club meeting, or just to...
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Episode 19: Welcome to Crossover Country
Greetings, all you bourbon-making billionaires and smartypants spies! In this episode, we'll wave our arms around a lot, but you won't be able to see us, so we'll also talk about our favorite crossover books -- mystery, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, and YA that brings the true love…
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Episode 18: That Tricky Pseudonym Issue
Greetings, all you aspiring politicians and soulful piano players! In this episode, we'll talk political romance, holiday novellas, and voting. Plus, Shandy dreams of cable cars, Shannon dreams of Louboutin stilettos, and together we dream up the perfect Portland romance. For readalikes, book...
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Episode 17: We Accept You, Fangs and All
Greetings, all you haunted hotties and spectral suitors! In this episode, we'll discuss one of our favorite romances of the year and recap our many reading challenges of 2020. Plus, Shannon gets roped into one more challenge, Shandy makes a few bad puns, and we both wonder: how exactly does ghost...
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Episode 16: Here There Be Spoilers
Greetings, all you seductive bakers and hungry werewolves! In our spoileriest episode yet, we squeal over the return of Bake Off, ponder our favorite foodie romances, and revisit our tropes of doom. Secret babies, suddenly smokin' siblings, and sweet stories abound! For readalikes, book lists…
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Episode 15: Teeth Will Be Gnashed
Greetings, all you secret authoresses and jaded journalists! In this week's episode, we'll recap our book club discussion of The Worst Best Man; swoon over our favorite Latinx romance authors; and discuss our latest and greatest reads. Plus, Shannon's watching a non-CLOY K-drama that's heavy on…
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Episode 14: Our Love Letter To Betas
Hello out there, all you sexy bodyguards and foxy firefighters! In today's episode, we'll try to provide some cheer in a world on fire. We'll (finally) talk about betas, the great unsung heroes of romance, and swoon over a few favorite dreamboats of film, television, and literature. Plus, Shandy...
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Episode 13: Significantly Better People Than Lord Byron
Hello out there, all you crusading bluestockings and lovelorn bodyguards! In this episode, Shandy remembers a few more things she needs to say about The Ripped Bodice, and a Twitter controversy leads to many shangents as we muse on reviews, representation, and defeating coughshamers with...
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Episode 12: Crash Landing On Alphas
Hello out there, all you stoic captains and feisty CEOs! In this episode, Shannon very patiently listens while Shandy gushes about her trip to The Ripped Bodice. We'll also discuss category romance, the Korean drama that's owning Shannon's life, and how the universe just doesn't want us to stop...
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Episode 11: In Which We Sort Of Apologize To Alphas
Hello out there, all you chivalrous tennis instructors and poisonous superheroines! In this week's episode, we'll re-recap our book club discussion of Bringing Down the Duke, admit we may have been too hard on alphas in the past, and trust our favorite authors to take us into uncharted territory....
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Episode 10: Dispatches from the Hammock
Greetings and salutations, romantics! In this week's episode, we'll consider our favorite royalty romance tropes and sing the praises of the modern princess. Plus, more about Black-owned bookstores, current reads, and Shandy's lakeside cabin HEA. Sadly, we lost the audio on our recap of the book...
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Episode 9: Well Done, Sister Suffragette
Greetings and salutations, romantics! In this week's episode, we'll take a ramble through suffrage in romance, rave about our favorite bookstores, and extol the virtues of lakeside hammock reading and properly masked and distanced bookstore browsing. Where do you buy your romance? For readalikes,...
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Episode 8: Only Shangentially Related
Howdy, romance fans! In this week's episode, we begin to explore our favorite and least favorite romance tropes. Join us as we cringe at secret babies, roll our eyes at secret billionaires, and muse on the merits of the protective older sibling in romance. What are your favorite tropes? For...
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Episode 7: You Had Us At Bookmobile
Ahoy, romantics! In this episode, we'll discuss our favorite and least favorite traits in a romance hero. Vicars and nannies and step-princes, oh my! Plus, we'll enthuse about our recent and upcoming reads and offer our plea to the universe for some slightly less muscular heroes. For readalikes,...
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Episode 6: Those Beautiful Sunburned Ankles
Shannon is finally back from her vacation (aka the longest week of the pandemic, according to Shandy). In this episode, we'll discuss vacation reading, Hamilton's Battalion, and our latest and greatest reads, romance and otherwise. Buckle up, it's a long one...but can you blame us? We had two...
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Episode 5: We Love Romance. Period.
Happy July, friends! In our fifth episode, we'll give our best "gateway romance" suggestions for interested readers just starting out in the genre. Also, we'll check in on our June challenge to read an intersectional rainbow, rhapsodize about talking to authors on social media (they're real…
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Episode 4: Come Swoon With Us
Ahoy, romance fans! In this episode, we'll recap our delightful book club discussion of the oh-so-charming Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, check in on our rainbowy reading challenge, and continue musing about everything from cinnamon rolls (both human and pastry) to racial justice in...
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Episode 3: Black Voices and Racial Justice in Romance and Beyond
In this episode, we'll recommend some of our favorite Black romance authors and discuss other ways to support racial justice at home and across the nation. Look for our antiracist resource list and Black romance reading list at https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/online-bookish-affair. Books...
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Episode 2: Comfort Reads and Cinnamon Rolls
Hello again, romance fans! We're Shannon and Shannon, librarians and co-founders of the Lake Oswego Public Library's romance book club, A Bookish Affair. In this episode, we'll proclaim our love for our May 2020 book club pick (Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert), talk about our favorite...
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Episode 1: An Energetic Wave of Love
Hi there, romance fans! We're Shannon and Shannon, librarians and co-founders of the Lake Oswego Public Library's romance book club, A Bookish Affair. In this inaugural episode, we'll advocate for reading romance in trying times, muse over the books that brought us to the genre (here's looking at...
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We're Shannon and Shandy, librarians and co-founders of the Lake Oswego Public Library's romance book club, A Bookish Affair. Join us as we explore the wide world of diverse, inclusive romance. Get ready to open your heart!
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