{"id":1383,"date":"2021-05-06T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/06\/i-couldnt-be-with-someone-who-liked-jack-reacher-can-our-taste-in-books-help-us-find-love\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:27:28","slug":"i-couldnt-be-with-someone-who-liked-jack-reacher-can-our-taste-in-books-help-us-find-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/06\/i-couldnt-be-with-someone-who-liked-jack-reacher-can-our-taste-in-books-help-us-find-love\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I couldn\u2019t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher\u2019: can our taste in books help us find love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe mentioned in his bio that he liked Virginia Woolf and I was like, \u2018Ah! The dream boy,\u201d says Francesca, 34, who met her boyfriend Andy on Tinder. They spent two years as friends, exchanging books and chatting about Mrs Dalloway, until one day Francesca had a revelation during lockdown: \u201cI was like, I miss you so much \u2013 I think I love you,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Andy gave her an illustrated collection of love letters between Woolf and her lover Vita Sackville-West: \u201cIf there\u2019s anything that inspired our relationship it would be a lesbian love story from the 1930s,\u201d she says. Last year, they went to Hampton Court<\/a> for \u201ca Vita and Virginia date,\u201d she says. \u201cWe joke we\u2019ll get some fish named after them, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nReaders are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility?
\n\u201cHe mentioned in his bio that he liked Virginia Woolf and I was like, \u2018Ah! The dream boy,\u201d says Francesca, 34, who met her boyfriend Andy on Tinder. They spent two years as friends, exchanging books and chatting about Mrs Dalloway, until one day Francesca had a revelation during lockdown: \u201cI was like, I miss you so much \u2013 I think I love you,\u201d she says.
\nAndy gave her an illustrated collection of love letters between Woolf and her lover Vita Sackville-West: \u201cIf there\u2019s anything that inspired our relationship it would be a lesbian love story from the 1930s,\u201d she says. Last year, they went to Hampton Court for \u201ca Vita and Virginia date,\u201d she says. \u201cWe joke we\u2019ll get some fish named after them, too.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers are in demand on dating sites, with one focused entirely on bringing book-lovers together. But is our taste in literature truly a good indication of compatibility? \u201cHe mentioned in his bio that he liked Virginia Woolf and I was like, \u2018Ah! The dream boy,\u201d says Francesca, 34, who met her boyfriend Andy on Tinder. …<\/p>\n

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