the ask@AAR: What’s the best book you’ve read this year?

Happy Juneteenth!

OK, peeps. We’re halfway through 2020–a year I’ll be thrilled to see the back of–and I want to know: What’s the best book you’ve read this year? And why?

Go!

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ByDabney Grinnan March 23, 2016

You read us. You trust our reviews and comment on our blogs and message boards. You like that we’re independent, that we don’t answer to publishers, authors, or a media company. You appreciate that we are a grassroots organization–our reviewers are regular people who, just like you, love romance. We write about romance because we…

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the ask@AAR: And the top selling books at AAR this year are….
ByDabney Grinnan December 3, 2021

I’m always interested to see what AAR readers buy through the links on our site and in our newsletter. After looking over the data from Amazon for our account, it’s clear this is the year of historical romance. Out of our top ten best sellers, eight are historical romances. (I’m including Sherry Thomas’ Murder on…

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the ask@AAR: What’s your preferred way to read?
ByDabney Grinnan May 15, 2020

Here’s a somewhat shocking confession: I haven’t read an actual book in over a year. And I don’t want to. Unless I can read a book on the Kindle app on my iPad, I’m just not interested.

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Welcome to AAR
ByDabney Grinnan July 1, 2016

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Welcome to All About Romance, AAR was created in 1997 and since then has offered unbiased book reviews, author interviews, industry commentary and much more to romance readers. We are a…

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I had a damn good time watching TV this year. Not everything wowed me–Reacher was a slog, I don’t understand the now old buzz about The Blacklist, Wisting was too gloomy, and The Bear, a yawn. But these are quibbles in a very good year. And for the purposes of this column, I’m sticking to…

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