Ep. 98 The Hating Game by Sally Thorne -- The Stacks Book Club (Leah Koch)

We're tackling our first ever romance novel for The Stacks Book Club, just in time for Valentine's Day! Today we discuss The Hating Game by Sally Thorne with co-owner of The Ripped Bodice, Leah Koch. Get ready for a conversation about tropes, therapy, and diversity in publishing. How romantic.

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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• The Ripped Bodice (Culver City, CA)

• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

• Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018)

• Judy Greer

• Jesse Williams

• The Hating Game (Peter Hutchings)

• Lucy Hale

• Robbie Amell

• The CW Network

• Mindy Kaling

• Cameron Diaz

• My Best Friend's Wedding (Ronald Bass, 1997)

• The State of Racial Diversity in Romance Publishing Report

• Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

• A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

• Jasmine Guillory

• Alisha Rai

• Avon Books

• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

• Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy by E. L. James

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