A Surprising Hobby Has Quietly Become A Dating Green Flag

It might be time to update your photos to include a book in the frame.

Once upon a time, people swiped on dating profiles because of big biceps, adorable dogs, or the massive fish a person may or may not have actually caught.

Dating culture, however, is always evolving. Suddenly we’re “freak matching” or “shrekking” or intentionally looking for a “slow burn” romance.

But, now, one of the latest must-haves for a sparkling dating profile feels surprisingly down-to-earth: showing off a love of reading.

Recently, pop star Dua Lipa married actor Callum Turner in a glamorous, multi-day Italian wedding extravaganza. As gorgeous as the celebrations were, it was their meet-cute that really captured people’s imaginations.

Turner shared that they met at a mutual friend’s birthday party, when they sat next to each other and discovered they were both reading the exact same book, Trust by Hernán Díaz. Not only that, but they had both just finished the first chapter.

To which Turner claimed he said to his future wife, “So we’re on the same page.”

If a rom-com writer pitched that storyline, we might call it unrealistic. But the internet, upon hearing this story, was totally swooning.

In modern swipe culture, books are boosting attraction. Reading has become a staple of dating app profiles, whether it’s including your favorite novel as a prompt, stating your go-to genre, or specifying that you’re “looking for someone to talk books with.” Reading........

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