Whether you're a Valentine, a Galentine, or a Palentine, February is time for love, friendship, and even a little romance! But how sweet are we on Young Adult Romance as a genre? Tune in to hear what Team AYA has to say about some recent romance reading. And we also share what we've been trying lately and what we're looking forward to next. Panel: Jane McMahon, Kate Pritchard, Susan Timmons.
Mentioned in this episode:
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho. Penguin Books, 2020: https://www.parnassusbooks.net/book/9781984812360
Peter O'Dowd and Kalyani Saxena write about male readers of romance:
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/04/01/men-romance-novels
Marina Warner, author of the book From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers, wrote a fantastic 2021 analysis of the evolution of the myth of Cupid and Psyche in media for the British Film Institute journal Sight and Sound: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/beauty-beast-belle-bete-marina-warner
Cursed Objects by J.W. Ocker
My Second Impression of You by Michelle I. Mason
https://www.parnassusbooks.net/book/9781547604128
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb
https://thebookshopnashville.com/item/oN-upq7FPcUpo3YNhdhEsw
The One True Me and You by Remi K. England
https://thebookshopnashville.com/item/3Czr8TaWU9-LEBbtfSLfUA
Intro/Outro music is “Birthday Cake” by Jahzzar. Creative Commons License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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