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155. Thrillers, Mysteries, and “Danger Boners:” A Reader Interview with Tina Chaney

Continuing our series of reader interviews, Sarah chats with Tina Chaney, a longtime romance fan, about discovering romance, mystery favorites, living in Kentucky, and reader shaming. They also talk at length about Tina’s favorite books, and about pet peeves like “danger boner.”

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  1. Amanda says:

    I’m so glad I’m not the only one who uses the term “danger boner.”

  2. Des Livres says:

    Here is a link to the Oxford English Dictionary definition of “outro”.

    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/outro

    …which isn’t to say it doesn’t exist in American.

  3. Tiffany says:

    Yay Lexington! I’m going to have to check out the shattered court on my next library visit.

  4. Anne says:

    I concur with the comments about reader shaming and guilt about reading. I agree that it gets easier to deal with as you get older, because, you care less and less about other people’s opinions.

    I really like the reader interviews and hope that you will continue to periodically feature readers.

    The mention of the book Christy,by Catherine Marshall brought back some good memories. I don’t think that it was characterized as a romance when it was published in the 1960’s. I think that the story is based upon the life of the author’s mother or grandmother. I read it as a teenager (in the mid-70’s), around the time that I discovered Georgette Heyer and Jane Aiken Hodge at the library. I think that Christy was adapted into a tv series or miniseries in the 1990’s.

  5. Julia (@mizzelle) says:

    I remember hearing about the Christy series — both tv movie & series starring Kellie Martin in the mid 1990s. There were later tv movies to finish off the storyline.

  6. Becky says:

    Loved this week’s podcast, it was fun because there were so many different and varied books, and the conversation was perfect. Also, The Shattered Court was bought whilst listening, I was persuaded quite easily so thank you.

  7. Crystal says:

    Heh, the conversation about the required reading made me laugh, because I did that too. It was about junior year that I just threw both middle fingers in the air (metaphorically, because I didn’t want to go see the principal, it cut into my reading time) and quit on the required reading. It was when we were supposed to read Crime and Punishment. I didn’t make it past page 20, and I didn’t want to. Instead, I read the end, paid attention in class, and wrote such a good paper on it that it got entered in the county essay contest. Once I figured out that this was a thing I could do, the “required” reading became more, “I’ll read it if I damn well feel like it.” Sula and Catch-22? Read those. Heart of Darkness and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, hahaha, nope.

  8. garlicknitter says:

    The Daisy book Tina was trying to remember near the beginning of the podcast was probably Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz.

    I’ll be looking for The Shattered Court!

  9. kitkat9000 says:

    Am I the only one who got angry with Patricia Briggs? She had one of the worst “danger boner” scenes I’ve ever read.

    They were tracking a human-killing water fae possessing unknown magic on an island when they were so overcome with lust they just had to have sex.

    Nor were they alone. No, they were just a little ahead of a group comprised of humans and weres and possibly another fae. It’s been awhile so I don’t recall that part, but it threw me out of the book. It was the worst TSTL moments I’ve ever encountered in one of her books.

    However, my library has both The Shattered Court and Agnes & the Hitman. Armstrong, Henderson, and Phillips will be looked into as well. Thank you for the suggestions.

  10. Ellen says:

    Oooh, I didn’t know MJ Scott had a new book. I am going to glom that as soon as I get a chance.

  11. SB Sarah says:

    I’m so glad you all enjoyed this episode! I really love doing reader interviews – but then, I think y’all are pretty freaking cool. 🙂 Thank you again to Tina!

  12. catses says:

    I loved this episode – Tina had so many opinions and they were all interesting! Thank you, Tina and Sarah.

  13. C.U.F. says:

    I am officially in love with Tina! (In a completely non-creepy internet stranger kind of way.)
    I’m newly returned to the world of romance reading, and am loving these interviews. So much fun.

  14. Tina C. says:

    Thanks, everyone, for your kind words! I was kind of nervous about doing this, but Sarah made it incredibly easy on me. I had a great time talking to her and I’m so happy that you all enjoyed this episode. Finally, and – I can’t stress this enough – read “Shattered Court”! (I know that I’m seriously pimping this book so hard and, I swear, I’m getting not one bit of the royalties! But it is SO good!)

  15. Meka says:

    Because of this podcast, I read the Shattered Court and O! M! G!!!!! Tat book was sooooooooooo good! I freaking loved it. I need more like this. I need the next book like right the heck now!

  16. Linotte says:

    I think book about the slave girl Tina was talking about is called Band of Angels. It was made into a movie during the 1950s with Clark Gable, Yvonne de Carlo, and Sidney Poitier. Of course, I could be wrong, since that probably caught on as a trope in 1970s and 1980s romance.

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