You’ve seen ours–it’s your turn to share! What were your top reads of 2023?
(And, if you’d like to see all our choices for Best of 2023 in one place, you can see them all here.)
You’ve seen ours–it’s your turn to share! What were your top reads of 2023?
(And, if you’d like to see all our choices for Best of 2023 in one place, you can see them all here.)
I review books for a living — which these days makes me something of an anachronism. Reviews, once a way to think out loud about art, are increasingly treated as just another genre of marketing. Public declarations of enthusiasm have replaced engagement. Five stars have become the default. And somewhere in all that cheerleading, we’ve…
An ongoing consideration at AAR is whether or not it’s worth doing more than one review per book. Typically, we have a list of books reviewers can choose from and one reviewer picks a book and reviews it. Sometimes, if there’s a lot of interest in a release, we do a Pandora’s Box where reviewers…
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…
Yesterday, I returned from trying on possible Mother of the Groom lehengas to read this crap headline from Washington Post: At 59, I needed a fancy gown. Should I go for sexy or mother of the bride? So. Much. Ugh. This is an article about a lovely woman who, when her husband won a Nobel…
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Beloved historical romance author Joanna Bourne announced her retirement this month. I’ve reread everyone of Bourne’s books; some many times. I respect her decision but, damn, I’ll miss her brilliance. AAR’s reviewed, I think, all her work. Five of the books in her The Spymaster series have garnered DIKs–the only one that didn’t, my favorite…