{"id":41736,"date":"2025-09-25T01:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41736\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T01:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:34:15","slug":"love-is-in-the-air-as-interest-in-romance-books-skyrockets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41736\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is in the air, as interest in romance books skyrockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A group of friends bejewel the covers of their favorite romance novels while clad in book-themed pajamas during the Romantically Yours Convention\u2019s pajama party event. (Hafsa Quraishi\/Here &amp; Now)\"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758764055_789_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    A group of friends bejewel the covers of their favorite romance novels while clad in book-themed pajamas during the Romantically Yours Convention\u2019s pajama party event. (Hafsa Quraishi\/Here &amp; Now)<\/p>\n<p>As interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/iscience\/fulltext\/S2589-0042(25)01549-4\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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>\nPrint sales for romance books have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circana.com\/post\/another-year-of-romance-with-a-dark-twist-circana-bookscan-reports)\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">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>\nBookstores 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>Here &amp; Now\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/inside\/staff\/hafsa-quraishi\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hafsa Quraishi<\/a> recently dove into these spaces to figure out what\u2019s driving this recent boom in romance.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2025\/09\/24\/romance-books-genre\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2025 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of friends bejewel the covers of their favorite romance novels while clad in book-themed pajamas during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-41736","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\/41736","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=41736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}