I’ve read some EXCELLENT books lately! How about you?

October 13, 2021

I have read several truly superb books recently–being on crutches has given me more time to read and I’ve picked, in general, a bunch of winners. The best book I’ve…

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the ask@AAR: What happens when writers fictionalize the lives of others?

October 8, 2021

I, like much of the writing attached world, have been unable to stop thinking about Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson whose feud was covered in depth by the New York…

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What would you like us to review?

October 6, 2021

Thanks to the generosity of publishers and authors, the AAR staff has a wide variety of books they can choose to review. (We don’t assign books–reviewers can pick from our…

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Best looking on screen couple of all time?

October 4, 2021

A friend came over this weekend and said he and his 22 year old daughter had been discussing this for fun and, no shock, had completely different answers to the…

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the ask@AAR: Is there a romance canon?

October 1, 2021

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a canon is  a. Literary Criticism. A body of literary works traditionally regarded as the most important, significant, and worthy of study; those works…

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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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