The Wayback on Wednesday: Riffs on Political Correctness

September 29, 2021

originally published in August of 2000  This feature grew out of Laurie Gold’s 1997 review of a 1997 romance, A Well Pleasured Lady by Christina Dodd, and a subsequent column…

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the ask@AAR: How do you get your news?

September 24, 2021

I do not watch and never have watched the news on TV. I’ve never watched 60 Minutes, The Daily Show, or the nightly news. This isn’t because I think it’s…

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The seemingly endless technical problems at AAR

September 20, 2021

On Sunday, after two of the plugins we use for comments and the forums were updated, five months of forums vanished and the forums themselves wouldn’t function properly. I spent…

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the ask@AAR: Do you read self-help books?

September 17, 2021

Peeps–I’ve been a bit blue lately. I’m on crutches for six weeks–months after that with a cane–due to a soft tissue hip repair. Covid continues to threaten so many things….

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Seen any covers you love lately?

September 13, 2021

Covers in romance come up again and again and, usually, readers are complaining. Whether it’s the Fabio-licious covers of the 1990s or the cartoon covers all over the place today,…

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the ask@AAR: What do you think about the current state of marketing in romance?

September 10, 2021

There is chatter in Romancelandia about Helen Hoang’s The Heart Principle. Where her first two books were romances, this novel–and I haven’t read it so I’m just repeating what I’ve…

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the ask@AAR: What love stories DO NOT stand the test of time?

September 3, 2021

Reader Kris recently commented that when she reread Lisa Kleypas’ Dreaming of You it DID NOT hold up at all. She wrote: From Sarah saying NO to Derek not listening…

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What are you reading?

September 1, 2021

I’ve been on a rereading binge. After the AAR Good Time Book Club read the surprisingly unsatisfying Fool Me  Twice by the usually great Meredith Duran, I was inspired to…

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the ask@AAR: Another side in the endless kerfuffle about accuracy in historical romance.

August 27, 2021

This week on Twitter, a famous historical romance author made the point that there are good reasons authors of historical romance break with convention. She argued authors do so not…

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The AAR Good Time Book Club: Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran

August 23, 2021

Today we’re discussing Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran. In her B+ review, Blythe said: Fool Me Twice is easily my favorite Duran book of the last few years. After…

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the ask@AAR: Do you believe in destiny?

August 20, 2021

I’ve just finished reading Pachinko which I loved. It’s a multigenerational tale of Koreans living in Japan during the 20th and 21st centuries. One of the themes the novel explores…

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Do you finish all the books you start?

August 16, 2021

My rule for reading a book is, if after 100 pages more or less, I’m bored/irked/appalled, I quit. This, however, is just me. (For TV shows, it’s watch at least…

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