the ask@AAR: Wanna talk about dark romance?

May 10, 2024

This week some comments at AAR got me thinking about dark romance. The sub-genre is a broad one but, in general, dark romances have, duh, dark themes. They often traffic…

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I’m sorry but Anne Hathaway is too beautiful for The Idea of You

May 6, 2024

A few nights ago, Dr. Feelgood and I watched The Idea of You. If you live in the States, you’ve probably seen one of the bazillion article/videos about this Amazon…

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Narrowing down the Reader Nominated List

May 4, 2024

OK! We had 92 books that were mentioned at least twice in our recent reader nominated poll. We will keep the 37 books that received three or more mentions. That…

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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite Meredith Duran book?

May 3, 2024

One of my all time favorite romances is Meredith Duran’s The Duke of Shadows. I read it, for the first time, a few years after it was published in 2008….

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The top books nominated by readers for the AAR Top 100 poll

May 1, 2024

Here are the top books you picked to be included in our poll that are not in the current AAR Top 100. We had about 650 books nominated. All of…

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the ask@AAR: What will happen at AAR while Dabney is in India?

April 19, 2024

Hopefully, nothing! Although there won’t be Steals and Deals beginning tomorrow. I may try and add some to our Amazon page, so make sure to look there each day. We…

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The ask@AAR: What books do you feel should be on the 2024 AAR Top 100 Romances Poll?

April 12, 2024

YOU MUST ADD YOUR CHOICES TO THE SURVEY. WE WILL NOT BE ADDING THEM FROM THE COMMENTS. We are slowly creating a list of books that will be on the…

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The Top 50 from your picks from the 2018 AAR Top 100 List

April 10, 2024

For the past two weeks, we’ve been asking you for your choices for the top romances from the last AAR Top 100 Romances poll we ran in 2018. We plan…

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The ask@AAR: Are you excited for Bridgerton Season Three?

April 5, 2024

I’m starting to see ads for the third season of Bridgerton and I’m not sure if I’m excited or not. I very much enjoyed Season One but struggled with the…

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the ask@AAR: Which books, currently on the Top 100 list, should we include in the new survey? Which should we not?

March 29, 2024

As we begin creating the survey we’ll use to make a new AAR Top 100 list (2024), I thought we’d begin by assessing, in a survey, what current novels on…

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What’s–currently–your favorite movie?

March 25, 2024

When I’m with someone I don’t know that well and the conversation lags, I love to ask them: What’s your favorite movie? Most of the time, people think a moment…

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the ask@AAR: What are the most polarizing romances?

March 22, 2024

OK, I hate to trash another site but I found Book Riot’s article on 8 of the Most Polarizing Romance Novels Ever Written to be, um, a joke. Ravishing the…

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