Essays & Musings
What We’ve Been Thinking About
Thoughts on books, reading, culture, and the literary life.
An interview with Serena Bell
October 28, 2013Serena Bell’s debut novel, Yours to Keep, interested me because the heroine is an undocumented immigrant living in the United States. I know Serena on Twitter and asked if she’d talk…
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Pandora’s Box: The Last Hour of Gann
October 21, 2013Wendy Clyde here. Dabney Grinnan and I are discussing R. Lee Smith’s The Last Hour of Gann, which was released in September. While Dabney had read Ms. Smith, this is…
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The results of the AAR Top Ten Lists are in and the winner is….
October 7, 2013Back in April, we began, on each Tuesday, publishing a reviewer’s Top Ten list. There were no rules other than the books be in the romance genre. Over the next…
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Shannon McKenna talks alpha males and uber villians
September 30, 2013Shannon McKenna’s latest release, Fatal Strike, is the tenth in her McCloud and Friends series. The books feature seriously macho heroes, really awful bad guys, and scorching sex scenes. She…
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AAR Staff Top Ten Favorites: Dabney’s Picks
September 24, 2013It was the summer of 2008 and I, a passionate reader, had my first Kindle. It was magical–a device you could just push a button and get books, as many…
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Chatting with Katherine Ashe
September 23, 2013Katharine and I live in the same area and have met once. We also know each other on Twitter. Katharine is fairly well-known in our community as an academic who…
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An interview with Sherry Thomas, YA author
September 16, 2013Readers love Sherry Thomas’s historical romances. Of the seven she’s published, three are Desert Island Keepers here at AAR and three others garnered a B+. She is a two-time winner…
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Favorites
September 9, 2013It’s just about impossible for me to pick a favorite movie, book, song, or place is. I always have to qualify it. So, when asked what my favorite book is,…
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An Interview with Alexis Hall
August 28, 2013Alexis Hall has just released his debut novel, Glitterland, to wide acclaim. It’s a four and a half star read on Goodreads. Library Journal gave it a starred review and…
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Mary Ann Rivers talks about loss, change, and love
July 10, 2013This week Mary Ann Rivers released her first published work, a moving novella entitled The Story Guy. Goodreads readers give it a 4.5. I thought it was almost perfect. I…
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Six questions for Delphine Dryden
June 5, 2013Delphine Dryden’s The Seduction Hypothesis (The Science of Temptation series) is a funny, sexy erotic romance. In it, the absolutely adorable, quite nerdy hero, Ben is trying to get his…
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To baby or not to baby: that is the question
April 26, 2013Warning: this piece has spoilers about three contemporary romances: Sabrina Darby’s Entry Level Mistress, Joan Kilby’s Maybe this Time, and Sarah Mayberry’s Suddenly You. Last month, I read a contemporary romance by…
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