Between the Covers Book Club
Dog-Eared’s “Between the Covers” Book Club is a celebration of all things rom-com led by one of the genre’s greatest fans, DeAnn. With a new pick each month, swooning has never been so much fun.
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
This month we are reading The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren! The Between the Covers book club will meet on Sunday, June 18, at 4:30 PM or Saturday, June 23, at 6:30 PM.
Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level—but only if they can keep the chemistry between them from taking the whole thing off script.
Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached.
Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, can’t-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism she’s spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie?
Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see? Fizzy gives him a hard pass—unless he agrees to her list of demands. When he says yes, and production on The True Love Experiment begins, Connor wonders if that perfect match will ever be in the cue cards for him, too.
The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for ever since Fizzy’s debut in The Soulmate Equation. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.
Purchase a copy to read, or grab it from the library, and join us at Dog·Eared Books on Sunday, June 18, at 4:30 PM or Saturday, June 24, at 6:30 PM to discuss the book with book club host DeAnn! This book club is free to anyone who wishes to participate, no registration necessary.
Dates and books for upcoming 2023 Between the Covers Book Club gatherings:
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Sunday, June 18, at 4:30 PM or Saturday, June 24, at 6:30 PM The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren |
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Saturday, July 22, at 6:30 PM or Sunday, July 30, at 4:30 PM Get Thee Off My Lawn by Daria Vernon |
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Saturday, August 26, at 6:30 PM or Sunday, August 27, at 4:30 PM Off the Map by Trish Doller |
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Saturday, September 23, at 6:30 PM or Sunday, September 24, at 4:30 PM Pas de Don’t by Chloe Angyal |
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Sunday, October 15, at 4:30 PM or Saturday, October 28, at 6:30 PM Not Your Ex’s Hexes by April Asher |
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Sunday, November 19, at 4:30 PM or Saturday, November 25, at 6:30 PM Wish Lists and Road Trips by Lauren H. Mae |
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Saturday, December 16, at 6:30 PM or Sunday, December 17, at 4:30 PM Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun |
Content Warnings for Between the Covers Book Club 2023
Content Warnings for Yours Truly
Content Warnings for True Love Experiment
Content Warnings for Get Thee Off My Lawn
Content Warnings for Off the Map
Content Warnings for Pas de Don’t
Content Warnings for Not Your Ex’s Hexes
Content Warnings for Wish Lists and Road Trips
Content Warnings for Kiss Her Once For Me

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This is the Between the Covers Podcast, with hosts DeAnn Malone and Rachel Trainum. In our podcast we’ll chat about our favorite rom-com reads, the book pick for the Between the Covers book club at Dog-Eared Books in Ames, IA and the tropes that go with the book we’re currently reading. And much more! Between the Covers podcast will be bi-weekly, with one episode covering the current rom-com trope topic and the next discussing the book club read. And on occasion we will have bonus episodes where you can hear us talk about more in the rom-com world.
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