Sometimes a name is just a name

August 20, 2026

on offense, accommodation, and the value of getting the facts right

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A Novel Is Not a Safe Space

August 15, 2026

Books are allowed to offend you. You are allowed to close them. Everybody survives.

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Prestige TV rediscovers the joy of family and friends

July 26, 2026

sappy for the win–really

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my favorite ten romances

May 9, 2026

books that bewitch me, body and soul

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My favorite mysteries, part three

May 3, 2026

and then there were none… for now

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The 25 best novels of the 21st century

April 30, 2026

a very subjective list

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My favorite mysteries: part two

April 15, 2026

the women are killing it

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My favorite mysteries, part one

April 11, 2026

no pat plots here

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The New Fear of Being Cut Off by Your Children

April 7, 2026

the silencing of the rents

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Please, don’t feed the (feral) cats.

March 30, 2026

save the birds

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Parsing the Polls

March 25, 2026

I have been going over the data from all of AAR’s Top 100 Romance polls. My goal is to get a sense of what romances readers have most loved overy…

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Analyzing readers’ favorite romance novels over the past three decades

March 24, 2026

parsing the data

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