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The Week in Romcom-Starved Bookish Twitter

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This week saw Book Twitter at its peak, when, starved of wholesome romcoms, we saw the release of Netflix’s highly anticipated adaptation of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.

We just couldn’t believe our luck: a non-problematic male romcom lead who doesn’t slip once!?

There were several uncanny comparisons to baby Mark Ruffalo, with just a dash of Jess Mariano.

Netflix US has also unabashedly become a TATBILB fan account:

We need to talk about how Lara Jean handled things like an absolute boss in a situation where the likes of me would’ve melted off the face of the planet:

We also need to talk about how Peter Kavinsky handles that direct hit to his heart:

https://twitter.com/blythescurls/status/1032694068181127169

My absolute favourite development from the release of this movie is this Twitter account:

Also, Preeti called us all right out:

https://twitter.com/runwithskizzers/status/1032053566339461121

In other news of some A+ Asian rep on screen:


Romcom-starved bookish Twitter basically ruled our feeds for five days, but let’s not lose sight of this account, which is just calling out horror writers one after the other:

https://twitter.com/bitterkarella/status/1030659491715473409?s=20

https://twitter.com/bitterkarella/status/1030658703093952518?s=20

A reminder, at the end, to watch this extremely important piece of content:

https://twitter.com/bowenyang/status/1032485152507809793?s=20