31. Brother’s Best Friend’s Sick Bed
Honoria [21ish] is a very bad violinist but a very good cousin and member of the Smythe-Smith family. Every year, she and her unmarried cousins play in a musicale that corrupts Mozart to a spectacular degree, but it’s tradition and tradition is nice and Honoria loves her family and their traditions. But that doesn’t mean she wants to play in the musicale again. Enter Marcus [29ish], a very reticent Earl for whom the Smythe-Smiths represent the only family he’s ever known. But when he runs into Honoria again, she’s not quite the bratty little sister-type he remembers.
It’s Season Four of What Would Danbury Do... and we’re moving into the Bridgerton expanded universe.
Featuring:
Kate singing (sorry)
The Honoria - Gonorrhea principle
A bossy e
Cinnamon roll heroes
A molehill that becomes a mountain
Sickbed geographies
Quite a gruesome description of wound cleaning
The weight of emotions (and why it’s better to feel them on the floor)
Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:
Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
It’s in His Kiss by Julia Quinn
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
Mindhunters, TV series
On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
Persuasion by Jane Austen
When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
Rookie Blue, TV series
The Babysitters Club, TV series
Beverly Jenkins, author
Women who Dare series by Beverly Jenkins
Corrections Corner:
When Rudi refers to a Tessa Dare book where the hero is based on House, it’s actually Eloisa James and the book is When Beauty Tamed the Beast.
This episode in What Would Danbury Do, we hear from Spring from Beverly Jenkins’ Wild Rain who writes to Lady Danbury for advice on how to learn to trust, and poor Rudi ends up on the floor. You can find out more about Wild Rain here.
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This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Gadigal, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people and edited by Rudi Bremer on Gadigal country.
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