
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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