{"id":2491,"date":"2025-03-31T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:56:21","slug":"romance-reading-group-april-2025-session-it-ends-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/03\/31\/romance-reading-group-april-2025-session-it-ends-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance Reading Group \u2013 April 2025 Session: It Ends with Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Monday 7th April, 6:30-7:30pm (London Time), Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign up via: <a href=\"https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/colleen-hoovers-it-ends-with-us-2016\">https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/colleen-hoovers-it-ends-with-us-2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[Read this paragraph with a deep cinematic voice, like in Hollywood movie trailers from the 00&#8217;s]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been a bestseller.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been turned into a movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been the excuse for young people to cry on TikTok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it has not been the topic of the\u00a0Romance\u00a0Reading Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Until now&#8230;<\/em>\u00a0<br><em>[Thank you. you can now resume your normal inner voice.] <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re continuing this year&#8217;s series\u00a0of works that challenge our definition of popular\u00a0romance\u00a0with the in\/famous\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colleenhoover.com\/products\/it-ends-with-us\">It Ends with Us<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Colleen Hover. Chances are you know the ending and why it&#8217;s controversial.<br>So please join us on Monday 7th April at 6.30pm (UK time) to discuss how this novel (and similar ones) works with or against our genre expectations and (un)successfully challenges our definitions of\u00a0romance.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 7th April, 6:30-7:30pm (London Time), Zoom Sign up via: https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/colleen-hoovers-it-ends-with-us-2016 [Read this paragraph with a deep cinematic voice, like in Hollywood movie trailers from the 00&#8217;s]\u00a0 It has been a bestseller.\u00a0 It has been turned into a movie.\u00a0 It has been the excuse for young people to cry on TikTok. But it has not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/03\/31\/romance-reading-group-april-2025-session-it-ends-with-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romance Reading Group \u2013 April 2025 Session: It Ends with Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":2492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romance-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}