When Names Are a No-Go

October 12, 2015

A few years ago I picked up a well-reviewed historical – I can’t remember the title anymore but I think it was a Western – and DNFed the book. There…

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Queer Historical Romance: A Roundtable

October 9, 2015

In celebration of Queer Romance Month, Joanna Chambers, Alex Beecroft and KJ Charles are here to discuss queer historical romance. KJC: So, let’s kick off with a thing I see…

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Edward is Edythe and Bella is Beau: Discuss

October 6, 2015

On 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, 2015

Every 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, 2015

Pride 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, 2015

Haruki 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, 2015

In 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, 2015

Welcome 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, 2015

After 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, 2015

Welcome 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, 2015

The 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, 2015

Hello 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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