The Bromance Book Club

Don’t be ashamed for liking them. The backlash against the PSL is a perfect example of how toxic masculinity permeates even the most mundane things in life. If masses of women like something, our society automatically begins to mock them. Just like romance novels. If women like them, they must be a joke, right?

That’s why fiction resonates with people. It speaks to universal truths.

You guys read romance novels?”“We call them manuals.

Men are idiots. We complain that women are so mysterious and shit, and we never know what they want. We fuck up our relationships because we convince ourselves that it’s too hard to figure them out. But the real problem is with us. We think we’re not supposed to feel things and cry and express ourselves. We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.

human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace

Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship. We read them to be more comfortable expressing ourselves and to look at things from their perspective.

If a man wants to leave you, wave goodbye and lock the doors. You've got better things to do than chase a lost cause.

The man tugged on his suspenders. “Whatcha knockin’ down?”“Patriarchal power structures.”He blinked.

We shouldn’t assume that women and girls don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. We don’t fear that men who read murder mysteries and thrillers are going to have a hard time not becoming serial killers, so why should we assume that a girl won’t know that she doesn’t have to change from a mermaid to human in order to find love just because of a movie?

First rule of book club? You don’t talk about book club.

All spouses become strangers to each other at some point in a marriage,” Del said. “All human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace. Who knows how many people have gotten divorced simply because they failed to recognize that what they thought were insurmountable problems were actually just temporary phases?

We are all the sum total of our experiences at any given time, and our reactions to things are shaped by them. Just like in romance novels. Whatever a character went through before the start of the book will eventually determine how they react to things that happen in the book.

Book club isn't just about books.

You don’t know my wife. It’s like a toy store for her. Our pen drawer at home is organized by color, and she has an entire basket full of washi tape.” “What’s washi tape?” “It’s, like, pretty tape for decorating. I don’t know. She loves that shit, though.” Del nodded. “Nessa has two full drawers of it. Sometimes I catch her staring at them with this weird smile on her face.

Modern romance novelists use the patriarchal society of old British aristocracy to explore the gender-based limitations placed on women today in both the professional and personal spheres. That shit is feminist as fuck.

He's asking if you cheated on her, slapnuts."Gavin swiveled his head to glare at Del. "Is that what you think? You actually think I would cheat on her?"[...]"No," Del said. "But we have to ask. It's a rule. We don't help cheaters.

He looked up with a smile that made Thea's heart swipe right.

Mack winked. “The sex scenes are also really fucking hot.”Gavin dropped the book.Mack and Wilson laughed and high-fived. “I loved that one,” Wilson said. “At least a BB Four.”“Do I want to know what that means?” Gavin shuddered.“It’s our rating system for how much sex is in it,” Wilson said.“But what does BB stand for?”The whole table spoke at once. “Book Boner.

Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship

Gavin stumbled to the toilet just as something the colour of bad decisions exploded from his mouth.

We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.

Oh, she could get lost for days in here, Irena thought as she took in the towering shelves of the library. If only she could.

Good. First rule of book club?” They finished in unison. “You don’t talk about book club.

expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.

He found her in the library.

It doesn’t matter. Because I didn’t marry baseball. I married Gavin, a man with more integrity than you could ever dream of having.

All human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace. Who knows how many people have gotten divorced simply because they failed to recognize that what they thought were insurmountable problems were actually just temporary phases?

All spouses become strangers to each other at some point in a marriage,

No one is as loyal as a little sister.

A lonely marriage is the worst kind of lonely there is