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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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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