{"id":41382,"date":"2025-09-24T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41382\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:14:12","slug":"love-is-in-the-air-as-interest-in-romance-books-skyrockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41382\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is in the air, as interest in romance books skyrockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">As interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/iscience\/fulltext\/S2589-0042(25)01549-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reading for pleasure<\/a> declines in the U.S. overall, there\u2019s one genre that\u2019s been steadily drawing readers in with promises of happily-ever-afters: romance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Print sales for romance books have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circana.com\/post\/another-year-of-romance-with-a-dark-twist-circana-bookscan-reports)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than doubled<\/a> in the last five years, according to data from Circana BookScan. And as interest skyrockets, so do third spaces catering to romance book lovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bookstores and conferences dedicated to the genre of love \u2014 and every subgenre and trope under its umbrella \u2014 have been popping up all over the country, and readers are eating it up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here &amp; Now\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/inside\/staff\/hafsa-quraishi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hafsa Quraishi<\/a> recently dove into these spaces to figure out what\u2019s driving this recent boom in romance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on September 24, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As interest in reading for pleasure declines in the U.S. overall, there\u2019s one genre that\u2019s been steadily drawing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-41382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}