Hey HBs! Erin is here to recap Yuri on Ice with Charissa! Charissa is an amazing Competence Boner patron and at that level, you can record an episode with the host of your choice! This is an extra huge treat because we get all of Erin's figure skating passion and expertise! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter ! MERCH! Teepublic , Chicaloo Kate , Redbubble , Etsy Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosom s TikTok: @hea...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 279
Hey y'all! Nat and Sara are here to recap Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score! It's book one in the Knockmeout series with runaway bride Naomi and bearded, bad-boy barber Knox. WHEW! Bonus content: what would Stefan say about this book, small town books as fantasy, Nat keeps forgetting the sex, Yolanda has the worst timing, DING! Lady Loves Sara - Buy this kaftan/robe from Etsy ! Nat - Everything Bagel Alouette spread (buy it from Aldi of course) Follow Sara everywhere (she's a fantastic, ent...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 278
Hey HBs! Sarah MacLean and Jen Prokop from Fated Mates join Erin and Mel to talk about Burn For Me by Ilona Andrews! It's the first book in the Hidden Legacy series and BOY do we now understand what people mean when they talk about "Mad Rogan." YOWZA. Bonus Content: sexy tortures, sexier loopholes, what we'll forgive for a fictional sociopath (everything), scapecows,"malls are the modern-day ballroom"--Sarah MacLean, in which mall store would we like to have an orgasm, the eroticism of the lava ...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 277
Hey HBs! Tanya is back to finish squeeing about Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase! Jess is one of the top heroines of all time! Bonus Content: emotional appetites, Puerto Rican grandmothers, strategies for burglars, and Valor makes a cameo. Self-Love Recommendations: Tanya - Roxanne with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah! It's a Cyrano de Bergerac retelling with a GIANT-nosed Steve Martin who's at the top of his comedy game. Mel - SPEAKING OF STEVE MARTIN! Only Murders In The Building is such a go...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 276
Hey HBs! Mel's best friend Tanya is here to recap Lord of Scoundrels with her! Boy does she love a schnoz on a man, so she was putty in Dane's hands. Bonus Content: Mel's move mishaps, Tanya's assumed relationship status, racehorse names, *Bing Boong Bong* Tricks for Chinatown Shopping with Tanya, tarts and trollops, and so much more! Check out Mel's KICKSTARTER ! Launches tomorrow! Next we'll be back with part 2! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Si...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 275
Hey pals! Mel, Nat , Holly , and Sara are here to finish up Fire Island! It's the best adaptation of Pride and Prejudice probably ever and we're dying of cute and sweet and witty and hot hot hot. But also, can we get a Max follow-up to this treasure?? Bonus Content: Do you time sex by an episode of chopped, or an episode of PJ Masks?, hot goggle summer, and MOAR TICK BIOLOGY!!!! Check out the Happily Ever Afters for Hope anthology that Sara has a story in! All proceeds go to support UNICEF! And ...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 274
Hey everyone! Holly , Sara , Nat , and Mel are here to recap Fire Island on Hulu. And we loved it so much that it's gonna be two parts! This is the best adaptation of Pride and Prejudice ever (fight me). Bonus Content: Nat's cheese pocket forever, Margaret Cho is here!, Quibi inside jokes, middle school attempts at flirting, rich people cheese, rewriting misogyny in daycare, how to prep for guests, Lyme disease is real, and being hot enough to be that annoying!! Donate to an abortion fund here !...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 273
HEY HBs! Holly and Nat our here with Regarding the Duke by Grace Callaway! Our first AMNESIA BOOK. But, we have some content warnings . This book leans heavily on the fetishization of....Sultans. We were also surprised. So there is much discussion on the page of (consensual) sex slave role play and the white MMC role playing a sultan. We want you to go in with open eyes and ears. Bonus Content: The worst kids that have ever been in a romance, Harry Kent (not a euphemism), female cow names, leani...
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 272
Oh heyyyy! Bree Hill from The Categorically Romance podcast and @bree.unabashedly on Instagram is here to help Mel recap The Best Man! Woo, this movie is soooo 1999 and it took us back. Terrence Howard is smizing all over the place, Tae Diggs is a commitment-phobic literary bro, and Sanaa Lathan voluntarily leaves a very luxurious bathtub! Plus, forehead kisses and Stevie Wonder dance breaks. Make sure to check out The Categorically Romance podcast and follow Bree! Lady Loves: Bree: throw on an ...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 271
Helloooooooo! It's Mel's favorite time! It's ALIEN TIME!!! Boy are Nat and Mel here to piece together world-building that's been established over an entire series... because this is the final book! Mel still loved it, and it didn't quite overcome Nat's natural avoidance of alien romance. But wow there's some hot sex and WILD seeds planted for the next series! Bonus Content: Beer coozies with CHEESE POCKETS, miniscule alien technology, French tents, and so much more! Lady Loves: The new all-roman...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 270
Oh hello! Mel's brother's wedding was the weekend before she moved her whole house and family and life. In other words, things are nuts over here! So you get an encore of A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest! Or, as we’re calling it, 50 Shades of Twilight: A Tale of Teenage Stockholm Syndrome. Full disclosure, we didn’t necessarily *like* this book, but we cannot wait to give you a hilarious after-school special about why we didn’t. We present a *very special episode* about what the kids are read...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 269
Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton Novels, stopped by Heaving Bosoms to chat all about MISS BUTTERWORTH AND THE MAD BARON ! It's the new graphic novel that she and her late sister Violet Charles created together! Come here all about Violet Charles' art, the way they collaborated on this work, and tons of adorable details! It was an honor to talk to JQ and help to memorialize her incredibly talented sister. Get an autographed copy (and adorable pigeon magnets) HERE . Subscribe! Rate! Review! T...
May 23, 2022•33 min•Ep. 268
Here is part 2 of Annika Martin's The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl! Nat and Sara deep dive into what the definition of a "perfect summer walking skirt is", there are CUCUMBERY dicks(??), they still love this book, btw, and they will keep saying it, all throughout part 2. Lady Loves: Sara - two very bingeable shows: Crashing on Netflix featuring a manic pixie Jonathan Bailey and Starstruck on HBO Max where a normie has a one-night-stand with a celebrity. Nat - Nguyen Coffee Supply , they are t...
May 16, 2022•59 min•Ep. 267
Ooooooh, Nat and Sara are here to recap The Billionaire's Wake-Up-Call Girl! This steamy contemporary has been on the list for a while and they do it justice! Plus, ferret stories! Next week you get part 2, but PATRONS have access to the ep in full right now! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter ! MERCH! Teepublic , Chicaloo Kate , Redbubble , Etsy Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosom s TikTok: @heaving_bosoms Men...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 266
Hey Pals, some shit has gone down in Erin's world and there's just no way she can be a main pillar of the podcast anymore. She's healthy, she'll be ok, but she needs to focus on her. So, she's still part of the community and she'll be back sporadically, but we can all support her by sending healing thoughts to Alaska and appreciating everything she's given us for the past 4 years. X-files clips and figure skating gossip wouldn't go amiss either. Mentioned in this episode: Love the show? Leave a ...
May 03, 2022•7 min•Ep. 265
Hey HBs!!! Kenya Goree-Bell is here to recap the Netflix movie Really Love! Ooooh, an artist and a law student are falling in love in this moody indie film set in DC. And it's delicious! Bonus Content: the glory of Michael Ealy, the artist mindset and struggle, rarefied air, waist beads, and the shenanigans that would go down if Kenya and Mel go to her Netflix Movie Premier together! Make sure to check out The Kronic and the rest of the Mogul Series ! Lady Loves: Mel: send your friends flowers. ...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 264
Oh heeeeyyyyyy! Sarah Wendell is back to finish up Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta! Part 2 heats up hard !!! We've got more fantasy-world fetishes, an incredibly deliberate hero, great communication, and a climactic finish that's perfect in every way. Bonus Content: public girl-code, firmly Millennial skills (google and horoscopes y'all), more Sarah/Mel Mythology, and so much more! Lady Loves: Mel: The Book of Life Soundtrack! It's soooo good! And Sarah dropped some serious knowledge w...
Apr 25, 2022•59 min•Ep. 263
Hey HBs! Sarah Wendell is here to swoon and geek the hell out with Melody. Did you think a book that's grounded in minotaur hand jobs would be an amazing example of structural organization, labor rights, and include layered feminist commentary on society's obsession with the phallus? ...you did? OMG you're a genius. We did not. But you get to hear us break down every stunning moment in part 1 of Morning Glory Milking Farm by CM Nascosta! Plus, like, minotaur testicles, dirt coffee, and lots of M...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 262
The boys are back in town! The Overdue Boys, that is! Craig and Andrew join us to recap Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis and we are delighted from start to finish. Get ready for Reylo parallels, Flintstones references, and Bing Boong Bong Higher Education Dollar Bills with Erin. Bonus Content: Science Daddies pushing cars, the magnetic appeal of an adult orphan, a "miasma of misogyny," full pipettes, and so much more! If you haven't yet, TREAT YOURSELF and listen to Overdue! Subscribe! Rate! ...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 261
Ohhh HELLOOOO! It's our St. Vincent's Day episode! Happy St. Vincent Day! All three bosoms are here to venerate Silver Fox St. Vincent, also known as the Duke of Kingston. What are names in England Times, anyway? Evie and St. Vincent's daughter has been widowed and her first event post-mourning is a wedding! Attended by her husband's childhood bully! Who turns out to be super hot and smart and meddling Sebastian loves him! Plus, SOUP.* *not in the Winter Garden. Bonus Content: We raised $3,660 f...
Apr 04, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 260
In the lead up to our most hallowed holiday, St. Vincent's Day, we're releasing the episode where we were introduced to our favorite hero in the whole universe, Sebastian The Lord St. Vincent! This is part one, so buckle up for a wallflower, a marriage of convenience, and a first kiss! In the rain! Bonus Content: Hiatus was so restful! (not), we would die and betray each other for St. Vincent, we're horrible, hypocritical St. Vincent apologists, what happens to the horses that you rent from inns...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 259
Oh Hey HBs! Nat and Erin are here with a M/M firefighter-chef romance. Which we really wanted to like. But unfortunately, it wasn't everything we wanted it to be. We're bringing you Melting Point by Kate Meader and it had so many things, and most of them were characters from other books. Bonus content: shaking your THANG, #justiceforlombard, that one lone arm chair, is this how you take care of a concussion?, enthusiastic rimming (AGAIN!), and so much more. Also we had an HB that offered to matc...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 258
Hey HBs! Sara Whitney is here to geek out with Melody! We recap One True Pairing by Cathy Yardley and get to talk all about fandom, conventions, gothabilly style, and the Supernatural boys. There's grifting! It's SO FUN!! Check out Sara's latest book Tempting Fate . It's a swoony second chance romance with grumpy/sunshine, second chance romance, and only. one. TENT. Yes, you read that right. Sara dialed it up to 11 on this one! Lady Loves: Sara: friendships that nourish us. Melody: Tiny notebook...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 257
Hey y'all! Nat and Mel are here to recap Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall! It was one of the January ARCs for Bonkers Romance Book Club and it's SO FUN! This book manages to be a sweet, fast-paced romp that has hilarious hijinks and HOT sexy times. And the banter. The banter might slay you. Lady Loves: Nat: Athletic Non-Alcoholic beer Mel: Pick up an old hobby! Mel's been crocheting again and it's meditative and feels super productive. Make sure to check out our March Patreon fundraiser! We're ...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 256
Hey HBs! It's time for our annual Patreon fundraiser! This year, because the need is so immediate, we're going to front a donation in anticipation of at least matching the amount we've raised in the past! This week, we're donating $1,000 to Razom Emergency Response , an organization with a proven track record in Ukraine who are providing medical supplies and training to civilians on the ground. Ukraine is the most pressing emergency right now, but it's by no means the only refugee crisis. So, at...
Mar 03, 2022•6 min
Oh hey pals! Sally Thorne joined Erin and Mel to recap the 90's masterpiece Untamed Heart. Marisa Tomei does a masterclass in turning an odd-ball role with questionable script choices into a stunning performance. And Christian Slater is very believable as a boy raised by a Baboon King (or ferrets). CW: We discuss an attempted sexual assault that happens in the movie as well as the survivor's coping mechanisms afterward. Bonus Content: Sally's next release Angelica Frankenstein Makes Her Match (o...
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 254
Hey HBs! Naima Simone is here! She and Mel gush about the most perfect movie in the whole world: Beyond the Lights! Between Gugu Mbatha-Raw (who sang the whole thing!), Minnie Driver, and Danny Glover, we were bowled over. Plus, parenting in pandemictimes, cackling until your stomach hurts, and rewatching movies for science. CW: discussions of sexual assault that happen on screen Lady Loves: Mel AND Naima: This movie's soundtrack!! Follow Naima: @naimasimoneauthor on all the things. POST-EPISODE...
Feb 21, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 253
Hey HBs! We're back from hiatus! In this episode, Erin and Mel embrace a few more Reading Embrace finishers, chat about what Mel she read over hiatus, read some listener emails, and make a big announcement! Bonus Content: porch goose shenanigans! Subscribe! Rate! Review! Tell all your friends :) Get more content on PATREON!! Sign up for our Newsletter ! MERCH! Teepublic , Chicaloo Kate , Redbubble , Etsy Instagram: @heavingbosoms Twitter: @heaving_bosom s TikTok: @heaving_bosoms Mentioned in thi...
Feb 14, 2022•54 min•Ep. 252
Hey HBs! In this, the last week of our 2022 hiatus, we're celebrating the start of the Winter Olympics with part 1 of From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata! This ice skating enemies to lovers made us both do several swoons! Bonus Content: the beautiful balance that is our opposite personalities, Melody has been attacked by new criminal mastermind TEAM: Rooster and GOAT, *Bing Boong Bong* Ice skating with Erin, *Bing Boong Bong* Butt Cheeks with Erin, Ivan is Queen Bird, big giant balls, *Bing B...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 251
Hey HBs! We're here with part 1 of Bully by Penelope Douglas. It's a new adult romance between middle-aged-sounding high schoolers who used to be best friends until he turned into a super villain and started bullying her. Listen, a lot of it didn't work for us, but the sexy times did. It was also an incredible vehicle for raceway noises, learning about arborists, and Melody climbing so high on an anti slut-shaming soap box that I doubt we'll ever see her again. If you want part 2, check out epis...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 250
