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The beloved teen book-turned-romantic comedy “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” opens with its main character in a red gown staring across a field at her beau in a tussled white shirt. Lara Jean is imagining herself in one of her romance novels, her favorite book genre.
They’ve since learned this is not the case for many romance readers. “So many people have the experience at some point during their adolescence of somebody in their life being like, ‘Why are you reading that?’” she says. A 2020 study analyzing the reputation of the romance industry put it simply: “Society sees romance fiction as ‘trashy.’” “Romance has been seen as lesser.
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