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I Couldn’t Put it Down… Part Two

We had such a great time talking about the Books We Couldn’t Put Down that we were up for another round! These are the books AAR staffers have read recently that captured our attention from start…

July 2018 TBR Challenge – Tropetastic!

The TBR Challenge usually includes a prompt at some time during the year which gives participants the chance to pick a book that uses their favourite trope. This time around it’s July’s prompt, and Caz and…

Why We Need Romance by Leslie Hachtel

Life is definitely getting harder. The news is more terrible everyday: children are killing children, Mother Nature is angry and more and more people are suffering. Sometimes just getting through the day is difficult. What helps?…

What, why and how do you read? A survey by M.K. Tod

Readers and writers – a symbiotic relationship. Ideas spark writers to create stories and build worlds and characters for readers’ consumption. Readers add imagination and thought to interpret those stories, deriving meaning and enjoyment in the…

Hot-Headed Love

If you don’t have a teen or teen-ish person in your life, you may not have heard about the Netflix movie that has taken the teen rom-com world by storm, The Kissing Booth. Based on a…

It’s Summertime – let’s binge!

I’m a greedy reader.  If I like a book, I tell every person on earth (who will listen) about it and insist they read it right away, regardless of the types of book they tell me…

Romantic Intentions Quarterly’s Ten Questions for Dabney

Romantic Intentions Quarterly, a new e-zine about romance, interviewed our Publisher, Dabney Grinnan, for their second issue. With their permission, we are sharing the interview. RIQ: All About Romance is one of the most respected romance-related websites…

The Tropical Romance Book Club featuring Bianca Mori

Welcome back to the Tropical Romance Book Club! The idea for this series is – for me, and hopefully you readers too – to explore some books which tell love stories set in places we in…

Jenny Holiday on “Prickly Presenting” Heroines (and a giveaway!)

I was messaging with a reader on Twitter the other day, and she used a phrase that I found delightful—and that has been stuck in my head ever since: prickly presenting. (Shout out to @EisReading!) She…