Someone said something real stupid, and that means we get to hit back in the best way possible — with romance recommendations! Today we’re talking about the Opera and the Ballet in Romance! We’re talking about historicals and contemporaries, about mafia enforcers and exasperated dukes, about football players and yes, of course, our sweet baby Conrad Wroth. You’re going to have a great time. Congratulations to the movie-starrest of movie stars, Michael C. Jordan, on the occasion of his Oscar win.

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Our next read along is The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books or wherever you get your books.

Notes

1. Tornadoes are scary, but the University of Michigan is keeping track of them for you. Chicagoans think that the city is tornado-proof; it’s not.
2. Daylight Savings Time sucks.
3. Cara Dion and Robin Lovett are both Opera Singers — Romancelandia remains the coolest.
4. Thanks Louisa Darling, for giving us this episode about Timothee Chalamet and his boneheaded comments about ballet and opera a few weeks ago, and then he didn’t win a single Oscar. Are these things related? Who can say!
5. Magic Mike is the greatest dance movie ever made, or a feminist text. Pick your poison.
6. A ballet book Jen imprinted on as a teenager was called Mariana by Karen Strickler Dean, and for Sarah it was an opera book called Mountain Laurel by Jude Deveraux.
7. Kelly Clarkson and Josh Groban do this version of All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera that’s very beautiful.
8. Michael B Jordan DID win the Academy Award for best actor, and we couldn’t be more happy about it.

Sponsors

1. The Monique Fisher Universe, including The Decadence Series, and the upcoming novella Make Room for Heather, available in print or ebook. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or with your monthly subscription to Kindle Unlimited.
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3. Blue Box Press, publishers of Kristin Ashley’s After the Climb, a River Rain novel. Available in print, ebook or audiobook from Amazon & Barnes & Noble.
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