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Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
Edward is Edythe and Bella is Beau: Discuss
October 6, 2015On Tuesday, in honor of the 10th anniversary of Twilight, author Stephenie Meyer released a version of the book with 400 pages of new content. Twilight Reimagined: Life and Death…
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A Queer Romance Month Post: Looking at Queer New Adult
October 2, 2015Every Friday in October, AAR will run a guest post as part of our participation in Queer Romance Month. Today’s is hosted by queer romance author Santino Hassell. New Adult is one of…
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Twenty years ago, Colin Firth Jumped Into a Lake
September 30, 2015Pride and Prejudice turns twenty this year. Not that Pride and Prejudice, the other one. Colin Firth Darcy Pride and Prejudice. Colin Firth Darcy gazing at Jennifer Ehle Lizzy playing the piano Pride…
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We Celebrate the Freedom to Read
September 28, 2015Haruki Murakami said, “If you only read the books everyone else is reading you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” This quote speaks eloquently to Banned Book Week. Some…
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Ruminations on Re-watching Downton Abbey
September 25, 2015In preparation for the coming (and final) season of Downton Abbey I’ve been binging on the previous seasons. My first thought as I watched those early episodes was that this…
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Midweek Minis: The September 2015 edition, part two
September 23, 2015Welcome to the September Midweek Minis, part two. This week Dabney, Caz, Melanie and Maggie review and rate the books they’ve recently read. There’s a novel by a Pulitzer Prize…
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Julie Anne Long on Lyon and Olivia and coming to an end in Pennyroyal Green
September 21, 2015After finishing The Legend of Lyon Redmond, I cried. I’ve read all the Pennyroyal Green books several times. What I Did for a Duke garnered the first A grade I…
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Luck Be A Lady: A Pandora’s Box
September 19, 2015Welcome to our Pandora’s Box on Meredith Duran’s Luck Be a Lady. They call her the “Ice Queen.” Catherine Everleigh is London’s loveliest heiress, but a bitter lesson in heartbreak…
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Stop Two on the Avon Pennyroyal Green Excerpt Tour
September 18, 2015The last of Julie Anne Long’s Pennyroyal Green books, The Legend of Lyon Redmond, comes out on September 29th. AAR is, along with other romance blogs, part of Avon’s Pennyroyal Green…
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Dangerous Fantasies: A Guest Post by Jill Sorenson
September 17, 2015Hello All About Romance! Thanks so much for having me. This is a discussion post from the Motorcycle Club Heroes class I taught at RWA University in February. Trigger warning…
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My Dark Prince: A Guest Pandora’s Box
September 14, 2015Hello everyone and welcome to our monthly AAR blog column. The basic idea is we choose a book every month and have a discussion about it. We being Elisabeth Lane…
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When Fiction Gets Work Flat Out Wrong
September 11, 2015Recently, AAR’s Maggie Boyd reviewed the book Starlight on Willow Lake, and one of the reasons it received a C- from her was the unrealistic depiction of the heroine’s career….
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