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Aug 2024
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#130: Do Books Need Romance? and The Lad...

Simon and Rachel
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Emile Zola, Noel Streatfeild, and romantic books – welcome to Tea or Books? episode 130! In the first half of this episode, we do a topic suggested by Lindsey – do books need a romantic storyline? In the second half, we 
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