Essays & Musings
What We’ve Been Thinking About
Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
Miss Kitty says There’s More to Paranormal Than Fangs and Fur
March 9, 2018Introducing Miss Kitty Hello darlings! An avid reader of mystery and women’s fiction, with a decided preference for stories with romantic elements, Miss Kitty is here to provide you with…
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Any Resemblance to Actual Persons is Purely Purposeful
March 7, 2018Open any novel, and you’ll probably see this disclaimer-This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination…
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A guest post and a giveaway from Kate Carley
March 5, 2018When was the last time you hung out with your best girlfriends? For me, it seems as if it’s been ages ago. The fact is, I tend to be a…
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Caroline Linden on math and romance
February 27, 2018Math and romance are inextricably connected for me. Let me explain. The fall of my sophomore year of college, a guy asked me out. He was athletic and funny, crazy…
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Dreams: A Guest Post (and a giveaway by Leslie Hachtel)
February 19, 2018Dreams. The stuff some reality is made of. My name is Leslie Hachtel and I am the author of The Dream Dancer. So many times, people ask me where the…
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Confessions of an Anxious Writer
February 15, 2018I think I was probably always a bit of a worrier. When my first baby was born, however, the worry kicked into high gear. And when my second baby was…
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Adam and Eve sells sex toys and makes the world a better place
February 14, 2018If you want to spice up your Valentine’s Day, you can’t go wrong with Adam and Eve. We’re running this column again because we love this company… and you! In…
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AAR’s Top Picks for 2017
February 10, 2018Each year we ask our staff to share the romance, the one romance, they read this year they’d pick as their favorite. This year, they’ve picked more contemporary romance than…
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AAR picks the very best of 2016
February 9, 2018We thought we’d republish this–we’re about to release our top picks for 2017. Did you read any of these? Think we picked well? (originally published on January 4, 2017) Each…
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The Best of 2017: Dabney’s List
February 6, 2018I enjoyed reading in 2017. I read widely and much of what I read was good. So that’s a win. Of the couple hundred books I read last year, these…
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How to have a sexy and romantic Valentine’s Day… with a little help from Adam and Eve
February 6, 2018Recently, while at a talk about the business of romance, I found myself talking with a very enthusiastic retired rabbi/marriage counselor who said he thought the reason women loved romance…
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Our Bodies, Our Stories: the AAR staff talks about weight
February 1, 2018The discussion about Kristan Higgins’ Good Luck with That got AAR staffers talking about their own experiences with weight and body image. We, all women, range in age from…
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