{"id":4115,"date":"2020-06-10T23:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T04:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2020-06-10T23:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T04:16:08","slug":"review-romance-is-a-bonus-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2020\/06\/10\/review-romance-is-a-bonus-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Romance is a Bonus Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I admit it. I watch a lot of Korean shows. The ones that come across my radar on Netflix are usually romances. They\u2019re predictable, and long. Typically, like the one I\u2019m going to talk about, they\u2019re sixteen episodes over an hour long each. There\u2019s the guy and the girl. They\u2019re fated to end up together, you know that. There\u2019s the right guy and the wrong guy (but he\u2019s not so bad) and the mirror image problem for him. There are the secondary character romances and the family entanglements. All this is predictable.<br>But many of the shows make it work anyway. I want to talk about \u201c<strong>Romance is a Bonus Book<\/strong>\u201d, which is a horrible title, by the way.<br>I love this show. I love it for it\u2019s setting. The girl, older and wiser than she seems, is dropped into a publishing house as a newbie intern, where the guy is a senior editor, several years her junior. The long episodes get us deep into the process of publishing books, and it\u2019s obviously been written or researched by someone with a deep love for the process. We get marketing sessions, proofreading, dealing with unsolicited manuscripts. We get the joy of landing a new author, of seeing the newly printed book, and the tragedy of a visit to a printing house to see truckloads of unsold books converted to pulp for pennies.<br>I tend to watch an episode and then turn back to my own writing with renewed determination. I\u2019ll be sad when it\u2019s over. I don\u2019t even care if the characters get their quirky problems worked out. I just want to see more of that publishing company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it. I watch a lot of Korean shows. The ones that come across my radar on Netflix are usually romances. They\u2019re predictable, and long. Typically, like the one I\u2019m going to talk about, they\u2019re sixteen episodes over an hour long each. There\u2019s the guy and the girl. They\u2019re fated to end up together,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2020\/06\/10\/review-romance-is-a-bonus-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Romance is a Bonus Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,554],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-10-at-11.13.48-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-14n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}