The ask@AAR: What’s your favorite WWII novel?

August 13, 2021

I am on my yearly week long vacation with my extended family of 21 and almost all the women in the group are reading books set in or around WWII….

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the ask@AAR: What stories make you ugly cry?

August 6, 2021

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve spent the last year listening to the Harry Potter books. I am currently at the end of book six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,…

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the ask@AAR: Is there too much sex in romance for you?

July 30, 2021

My daughter has a romance book club–this makes me so happy–and the next book they’re discussing is Anne Calhoun’s Uncommon Passion. After reading it, she said she liked it but…

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What’s the best contemporary romance you’ve read lately?

July 26, 2021

I’ve read, according to my Goodreads profile, 47 books this year. Six of them have been contemporary romances and while I’ve enjoyed a few of them, none of them wowed….

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the ask@AAR: Who are the best parents in romance? Why?

July 23, 2021

Peeps–my kids are driving me just a little bit nuts. Two of my adult children are temporarily living with us in our three bedroom condo–and one of them has an…

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Are billionaires the new dukes? Or do we hate both these days?

July 19, 2021

According to Wikipedia, there are around 2700 or so billionaires in the world. Several of them are determined, after mastering our world, to take their empires to other worlds. Many…

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the ask@AAR: What’s the most important characteristic a lover can have?

July 16, 2021

When my husband and I were first dating, we’d have this satisfying conversation about relational deal breakers. (We’d proverbially pat ourselves on the back because we, of course, did not…

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The Way Back on Wednesday: A Few Historical Characters I Miss

July 14, 2021

originally published on March 23, 2009 One of the perennial favorite topics around AAR is the lack of historical accuracy in today’s historical romances. Still, there is what AAR readers…

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Romances with football–soccer for our US readers!–or tennis players?

July 12, 2021

This past weekend was a biggie for sports watchers. (Just ask Tom Cruise–he was seen at the Wimbledon finals AND at the Euro 2020 final game.)  Novak Djokovic won at…

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the ask@AAR: Is it OK for lovers to lie to one another?

July 9, 2021

My book club just read Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter and, in our meeting, we had a long and heated disagreement discussion about whether or not and/or when it’s…

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We’re more than halfway through 2021–what have you been listening to this year?

July 6, 2021

Every year, since 2017, I’ve made a playlist on Spotify of my favorite songs I heard put out that year. Then, in January, I listen to all those songs and…

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What holidays do you love to celebrate? And happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2021

I read an interesting–and to me, depressing–article in the New York Times yesterday about how the American flag itself is now considered by many a partisan symbol. The same is…

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