
4: The Shame
I have read so. Many. Romances. And hidden all of them. Always on a Kindle, face down, no one sees the cover. Or I'll skip the part in the conversation where we all share what we're reading. And while I was embarrassed a
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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 4 episodes
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700 romance novels in three years—I kept track. I knew how each would end before I started (except one). I read them anyway . 16 episodes of depth psychology autocritique into what romance novels are actually doing in our imaginations and culture, and what shame about desire costs us. What might seem like addiction is actually pattern recognition. What looks like escapism is remedial education in desire...but it's compulsive, underground, unapproved.
Unknown Host hosts I Read Romance, a general show with 4 episodes published.

I have read so. Many. Romances. And hidden all of them. Always on a Kindle, face down, no one sees the cover. Or I'll skip the part in the conversation where we all share what we're reading. And while I was embarrassed a
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Episode 3 is basically about the shadowy parts of our psyche and one of the ways romance likes to look at that topic: forcing your good hidden bits to the surface. Romance is all about shadows—this is essentially the int
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As humans, we need stories. They help us focus on meaningful information in a sea of chaos. Help us learn, heal us, bond us with others. This is neuroscience. Stories also often follow predicatable patterns so we can get
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The confession episode. The “hi, I’m Kristin and I read almost 700 romance novels in three and a half years” episode. It starts in summer 2022, on accident, but somehow it becomes book a day, sometimes more, for years. S
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