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What’s–currently–your favorite movie?

When I’m with someone I don’t know that well and the conversation lags, I love to ask them: What’s your favorite movie? Most of the time, people think a moment and then say they don’t have…

the ask@AAR: What are the most polarizing romances?

OK, I hate to trash another site but I found Book Riot’s article on 8 of the Most Polarizing Romance Novels Ever Written to be, um, a joke. Ravishing the Heiress? The Hating Game? The Heart…

An interview with Lynn (also known as Jenna) about her new book!

Dabney: What made you want to write a YA book? Lynn: I love that stage in life, at least on a fictional level. Real life young adulthood is so fraught and difficult and sometimes painful. But…

the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite romance, thus far, of 2024?

AAR has given DIKs to twenty-three books in 2024. Of those, fifteen are 2024 releases. They are: Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira Convenient Vows With a…

AAR Loves… Enemies-to-Lovers Romances

I Hate You, I Hate You, I Love You: The Enemies-to-Lovers Trope One of the hottest tropes across so many sub-genres of romance is the enemies-to-lovers storyline. You know the deal: couple meets, instant dislike, much…

the ask@AAR: What, now, do we want from love stories?

The thing about romance novels, it was always said, they had to have a happily ever after ending (or, perhaps, a happy for now ending.) Romance Writers of America still says this: Two basic elements comprise…

March releases! What are you excited about?

Here are just a few of the March releases the world is chatting about. Are any of them on your radar? If not, what is?

the ask@AAR: What’s popular at AAR?

I recently ran a report at Google Analytics to look at what are the most read pages at AAR. It was somewhat surprising and very interesting. This report is from the past three months but these…

A blast from the past: AAR–then it was likesbooks.com–in May 1998

AAR published its first pages in 1996, started by the brilliant Laurie Gold. Many of the early pages–although not the reviews–are lost due to incompatible software, cost, and error. We can still, however, see some of…

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