The Book Blab: Episode 11 "All You Need is Love"

Woohoo! After my little maternity leave break, Amy and I are finally back this month with a new episode of The Book Blab! And since tomorrow is the Day of Love, that made for a natural topic for this month's episode. This was a super fun topic. We talk all about our favorite relationships and romances in a wide variety of genres, and there was so much to talk about I think we may need to revisit this topic in the future.

Hope you enjoy!

(And Happy Valentine's to you and yours!)

0:35 - Suzanne had her baby!

1:42 - Today's topic: Romance novels . . . the tame variety.

3:15 - Regency/Classic romances

• 3:55 - Favorite Jane Austen novels
• 7:15 - Defining the actual regency period
• 9:45 - Contemporary regency romances
• 12:21 - Other favorite classics with love stories

15:47 - Contemporary romances

21:23 - Fantasy/Fairy Tale romances

23:35 - Young Adult romances

26:14 - Love and marriage in nonfiction

29:33 - Two favorite reads from 2016

• 30:10 - Suzanne's recommendation
• 31:00 - Amy's recommendation 

32:55 - Upcoming mini-book club: The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

35:17 - Conclusion

Books mentioned during the show:

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Amy's review)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

Gone With the Wind by  Margaret Mitchell (Amy's review)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Amy's review)

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Suzanne's review)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Amy's review)

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Middlemarch by George Eliot (Amy's review)

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Amy's review)

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Amy and Suzanne's combined review in Episode 6)

Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock (Amy's review)

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace

Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery (Suzanne's review)

Emily of New Moon trilogy by L.M. Montgomery (Amy's review)

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin (Amy's review)

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi (Amy's review // Suzanne's review)

The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman (Suzanne's review)

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman and D. Ross Campbell (Suzanne's review)

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanaukin (Suzanne's review)

A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatramen (Amy's review)

P.S. Don't forget to share any favorite contemporary romances, in any genre, that meet our criteria of being clean and happy!