What’s the book you’ve read in the last six months that you simply couldn’t put down?
For me, it’s Ninth House. Smart, engrossing and entertaining as hell. What about for you?
What’s the book you’ve read in the last six months that you simply couldn’t put down?
For me, it’s Ninth House. Smart, engrossing and entertaining as hell. What about for you?
Later this year, AAR will ask readers to choose their 100 Top Romances as we’ve done many times over the decades. What does that mean? Are these the best romances ever written? Readers’ personal favorites? A representation of all the genre has to offer? Romances everyone should read? A series of comments by Jenna got…
What should we call books with no sex in them? AAR has a sensuality ratings system but that’s not helpful when you want a single descriptor. (It has five levels from Kisses to Burning and probably needs to be revamped.) Romancelandia seems to have settled–to the joy of few–on the term clean.
Currently, I am working a joint review with another reviewer on a book I loved and she did not. Neither is going to change the other’s mind about this work. She’d give the book a C/low B–for me it’s a DIK. We have agreed to disagree. At the same time, I’ve been deep in conversation…
It’s Oscar time and, as usual, I have seen almost none of the nominees–currently I’ve only seen Barbie. The nominees are: American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest I do plan, this weekend, to watch Oppenheimer although I…
Let’s be clear: Wars cause harm. Novels do not. Literature may raise uncomfortable questions or explore unpopular viewpoints or establish reasons to empathize with a character a reader might otherwise find repugnant. A novel’s story, characters, politics and theme may not appeal to a particular reader. That reader does not have to like those books…
When my husband and I were first dating, we’d have this satisfying conversation about relational deal breakers. (We’d proverbially pat ourselves on the back because we, of course, did not have each other’s “I simply couldn’t be with someone who had/was _______________.” That’s how humans work–we find it easy to enumerate flaws. We don’t tend…