I wish you hope and joy, in darkness and in light. Here’s to grace, peace, and love.
2024 was a tumultuous and often tough year for many, including me. Throughout it all, camaraderie, wisdom, humor, and support regularly flourished here at AAR. Thank you. You, dear readers, are a gift. I am so grateful.
Enjoy the day!
Weird confession: I struggle with stories where all the children have extremely distinctive names. I attribute this to growing up in a town with an infamous family who had six children and the elder five all had long unusual names that began with the letter R–there was one of these and one of these, just…
One of the ideas I’ve had for this blog is The Taboo Bookclub. I envision that, every month or so, we’d pick a book for discussion that has a taboo in it. This idea, though, has proved easier to imagine than to implement. For starters, one person’s taboo is another’s who the hell cares. Additionally,…
The two best selling fiction works at Amazon in 2023 were Fourth Wing and Iron Flame both of which are–and I so don’t love this mashup–romantasy. Also in the top 25 was A Court of Thorn and Roses–that whole series sold a boatload. If you look at just the best-sellers in romance, romantasy ruled on…
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Over the years, we’ve published many a piece about Bad Boys. I wrote one nine years ago about being over bad boys (this proved to be a lie), there’s one inspired by Chris Brown, one in which we swoon over Don Draper, and more. Their appeal and the problems they pose continue to inspire and…
2024…. this was a year of reading to escape. I did a lot of rereading–it helps to put me to sleep at night–but still managed to read almost 70 books I’d not explored before. However, as usual, many of those books aren’t going to be out until 2025. Thank the gods for Goodreads! After sorting…
