Getting Lit with Wendy and Ilana
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Getting Lit S4EP8: Eleanor and Park
By Rainbow Rowell. Ilana’s kid sister Naomi joins us to read the first YA Romance of the podcast. Naomi and Wendy start the Youngest Sister Support Group, where we bemoan weird nicknames and getting punched for various reasons.
Getting Lit S4EP7: Texas Destiny
By Lorraine Heath. Wendy and Ilana take a pilgrimage to sort-of-historical post-Civil War Texas in this novel published in the 90’s, but first Ilana tells us about her apple adventure with a truck driver that may or may not be a witch. Also,
Getting Lit S4EP5: A Bollywood Affair
Getting Lit goes Bollywood with this contemporary romance, a bacchanal of food, weddings, babies, and strangely enough, Michigan countryside. Still adjusting to COVID-19, Ilana makes two different drinks for the podcast.
Getting Lit S4EP4: The Ultimate Pi Day Party
This episode, Wendy and Ilana give our best and worst recommendations for the romance novels we have read on this podcast. Also we read a book with some of Ilana’s favorite things: descriptions of food, puns, and nerdery.
Getting Lit S4EP03: Nerds, Rakes, and a Gender-Swapped She’s All That
Wendy and Ilana read 19th Century nerd love in This Rake of Mine by Eva Leigh. But first, we review the latest adaptation of Emma, and give book reports. Ilana also uncovers the Great Purple Skittles Conspiracy.
Getting Lit S4EP02: MerLairds, Sweat Drugs, and Maggoty Finmen.
Wendy and Ilana dive into (get it?) Mermaid Romance with The Selkie Bride by Melanie Jackson. Bonus subgenres: Highlander and Secret Prince! We discuss the high and low points of when an American human woman and a sexy Selkie Scottish Laird traverse th...
Getting Lit S4EP1: Deep Burn
Ilana and Wendy turn up the heat with Deep Burn by Kimberly Kincaid, a firefighter themed romance novel. Ilana bemoans the lack of feelings talks, and Wendy turns in her book report for Stolen By an Alien.
Getting Lit S3EP10: The (Alien) Nanny for Christmas
Things get weird when Ilana and Wendy read a novella from the Stolen By An Alien series by Amanda Milo. Our hero has horns, scales, and breathes fire...but he saves the heroine thousands in child care, so who cares!
Getting Lit S3EP09: Hard as it Gets
Ilana and Wendy dip into Tattoo Parlor Romance with a torso on the cover, because that always goes well. Spoiler alert: it's not good. Weirdly heteronormative for the genre. But that's not the worst part of the novel...
Getting Lit S3EP08: The Kiss Quotient
Ilana and Wendy talk about the Kiss Quotient by Helen Huang, an interesting novel about an autistic heroine, written by an autistic woman. Also the hottest Disney character is…let’s say it together…Robin Hood.