Learning The Tropes: A Romance Novel Podcast

We kick off our month of SPOOKY books (and movies) with The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller! We talk about The Guilded Age, how to make ghosts leave you alone and why Clayton and Sam are oil and water.   Read-   The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller     Watch-   Saturday Night Live Season 12 - 19 (Peacock)     Phone Bank-   Indivisible.org     WE HAVE MERCH! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: If you hear a weird ad at the beginning of this episode, please just delete the episode and re-download. Podbean inserted an ad without our knowledge. The problem has been rectified!    This week we read The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson and talked about the denigration of food trucks, sex on cooking surfaces and whether or not chefs have to be a-holes.   Read -   The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson   Listen-   Fleet Foxes - Shore (Bandcamp)   Smell?   Lucky Scent     WE HAVE MERCH! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we read How To Tame A Beast In Seven Days by Kerrelyn Sparks and talked about '90s nose jobs, dog shifters and Clayton tries to pronounce "colloquialism".   Also, Clayton recorded in a shed outside (long story, never mentioned on the pod) so occasionally there are birds noises. You aren't hearing things!   Watch-   Great British Baking Show (Netflix) (New Season Starts Friday, September 25th!)     Become Someone's Pen Pal-   Rachel Syme's Penpalooza     WE HAVE MERCH! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we read The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai and talked about online dating, ghosting and a car trunk full of condoms.   Read-   The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai   Listen -   From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Audible)   Watch-   Yellowstone    Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we watched the Netflix movie The Lost Husband (2020) starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel.   How does this movie compare to Pauly Shore's Son In Law? Why does this "farm" consist of only a dozen goats? Why is Producer Patty shirtless?   Watch-   The Lost Husband (2020) (Netflix)     What If (2014) (Amazon Prime)     WE HAVE MERCH!!! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we read Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn and talked about secret identities, jealousy and Colin's (possible) tapeworm.   Read-   Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn   Listen-   Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence (Bandcamp)     Cassandra Violet - Superbloom (Bandcamp)     WE HAVE MERCH!!! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

(Note: An earlier upload of this episode had an audio glitch around 21:00. It's fixed now!)   In this special bonus episode, we Zoom with Bea Koch, author of Mad And Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency and Co-Owner of The Ripped Bodice and talk about the wonders of Lisa Kleypas, accuracy in Historical Romance and the pleasures of snooping.   ALSO, we play a round of Romance or Nomance: Wolf Shifter Edition!   To order your very own SIGNED COPY of Bea's awesome book, follow the link to The Ripped Bodice: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/product/mad-and-bad-real-heroines-regency-bea-koch-signed   Follow Bea Koch- Instagram @beakoch Twitter @bearosekoch   Follow The Ripped Bodice- Instagram @therippedbodice Twitter @therippedbodice   WE HAVE MERCH!!! Go to Tee-Public to get T-Shirts, Totes, Onesies and MORE: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we read Spellbound by Allie Therin and talked about New York City in the 1920s, Coney Island and who's taller: Erin or Clayton?    WE HAVE MERCH!!! Follow the link and for TWO DAYS ONLY (8/26 and 8/27) get special savings on your first item: http://tee.pub/lic/learningthetropes   Read-   Spellbound by Allie Therin     Stereogum - The Number Ones (Website)     Watch-   Love On The Spectrum (Netflix)     Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we read Fight or Flight, by Samantha Young and OH BOY!   Read-    Fight or Flight, by Samantha Young     Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe   Watch-   Ted Lasso (Apple TV +)     Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!

This week we read Bliss by Fiona Zedde and talked about Jamaica, surprise half sisters and food options at BDSM clubs.   Read-   Bliss by Fiona Zedde     Breath: The New Science of A Lost Art by James Nestor   Listen-   The Chicks - Gaslighter (Spotify)   Find us- Instagram @learningthetropes Twitter @learningtropes Facebook Learning The Tropes Podcast Join The Learning The Tropes Troop! email: learningthetropespodcast@gmail.com Learning The Tropes is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at Frolic.media/podcasts!