We're back this week living Olympic vibes and recommending books with big Olympic vibes! Whether you're drawn to the sports of it all or the France of it all or you just really love Flavor Flav stanning women's water polo, or you were very drawn to the wild, exciting, perplexing opening ceremony and just want to read a romance with beheading, we've got you covered.

We're coming up on the end of Season 6 (what?! how!?), which means a deep dive of one of Sarah's books, even though she doesn't have a new one this year! We're talking Wicked & the Wallflower next week, the first of her Bareknuckle Bastards series. Get it at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, or wherever you get your books.

Books Mentioned This Episode

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

Love Me in the Dark by Mia Asher

Kayla in Paris by Theodora Taylor

Broken French by Tasha Boyd

Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren

The Brightest Star in Paris by Diana Biller

We’ll Never Have Paris by Adriana Anders

Duchess by Night by Eloisa James

A Bride Unveiled by Jillian Hunter

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean

Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura

Nothing But Trouble by P. Dangelico

Stroked by Meghan Quinn

Just This Once by Rosalind James

Heart Breaker by Elle Kennedy

Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter

Take Me by Bella Andre

Shadow’s Claim by Kresley Cole

Too Hot to Handle by Elizabeth Lowell

Remember Summer by Elizabeth Lowell

Pardon My Frenchie by Farrah Rochon

Show Notes

It’s the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and we’re having a ball. Beyonce introduced the USA Olympic Team, and Flavor Flav’s support of the women’s water polo team, and Snoop Dogg love for the games have made them America's elder statesmen of the Olympics. Watch this 2020 clip of Snoop and Kevin Hart watching Equestrian. 

The Opening Ceremonies were wild, and you can also watch a documentary about the making of it called Le Grand Siene. 

Olympics lawyers have always been hypervigilant about removing copyrighted videos, but this year after complaints about a scene that appeared to show drag queens arranged like The Last Supper, the entire opening ceremony was removed from YouTube, leading people to believe the IOC was hiding its censoring behind copyright protections. 

Americans Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt are Fencing’s first couple.

The first “baby with headphones” of Paris is the son of swimmer Caleb Dressel. 

They’re surfing Teahupo’o, a massive deadly wave in Tahiti with Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost as the on site reporter. One of Jen’s favorite books about surfing is The Wave by Susan Casey.

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