Essays & Musings
What We’ve Been Thinking About
Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
the ask@AAR: What’s the best book you’ve read this year?
June 19, 2020Happy Juneteenth! OK, peeps. We’re halfway through 2020–a year I’ll be thrilled to see the back of–and I want to know: What’s the best book you’ve read this year? And…
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Second Chances Can Happen: A Guest Post by Leigh Fleming
June 18, 2020You’ve heard the headlines on your favorite morning news show: Divorced Couple Finds Love Again After Thirty Years. The perky anchorwoman then spouts the exciting details of a couple who…
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the ask@AAR: What’s your topic deal breaker?
June 12, 2020I recently read a book in which the hero of the book had been through and thus was obsessed with school shootings. I could barely get through it. That’s a…
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What are you reading right now?
June 8, 2020On Friday, a brutal 13 months and 2 days after his diagnosis, one of my closest friends died of Stage Four pancreatic cancer. The last weeks of his life were…
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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite romance novel adaptation?
June 5, 2020This week, I was reading Lisa’s review of These Violent Delights (coming out in November), a Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai. (She gave it an exuberant DIK.)…
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Black Love Stories To Read Right Now
June 3, 2020Like much of the world, I am sickened by the death of George Floyd. Since he was killed, I’ve donated to BLM, The Southern Poverty Law Center, to the NAACP…
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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite sports romance?
May 29, 2020Over the past weeks, like vast swaths of America, every Sunday night, my family watched ESPN’s The Last Dance documentary series featuring the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) Michael Jordan…
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Food and Wine Pairings for Favorite Literary Couples: A Guest Post by Kate Lansing
May 26, 2020My cozy mystery, Killer Chardonnay, features a vintner-turned-amateur sleuth named Parker Valentine and a dashing chef, Reid, who bring food and wine together in the most delicious way. When Parker…
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We’re hanging in there… how about you?
May 25, 2020This weekend, my family got in our car and, for the first time in months, left town. We drove three hours west and have spent the weekend in an airbnb….
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the ask@AAR: If he can’t do that, can she?
May 22, 2020Last week, I was thoroughly enjoying an upcoming historical romance when, in a fit of understandable anger, the heroine slapped the hero across the face hard enough to leave a…
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The Iconic Romance Tropes of Jane Austen by Leah Garriott
May 19, 2020Hey everyone! I’m so glad to be at All About Romance today to chat about something near and dear to our romance-loving hearts—the tropes we love best, Jane Austen style.
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What series/book has your favorite world building?
May 18, 2020I am reading the second in Mila Vane’s A Gathering of Dragons series. As was true in book one, A Heart of Blood and Ashes, the world building in A…
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