Blog Archive
One Summer Night by Caridad Pinero
When I’m asked to describe the idea behind One Summer Night, I say that it’s a modern day Romeo and Juliet story, but with a happier ending. It is a romance after all! I was a…
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Japanese American?
Today we feature something a little different. A friend of mine, Eric Muller, has created a podcast I think is wonderful. It’s called Scapegoat Cities and features human stories behind the Japanese American Internment. I asked Eric…
Yeah, thanks, NYT. We’ll take it from here
Hope. Escape. Fun. Happiness Something just for me. Taught me about respect. Joy. Taught me that I deserve a happily ever after, too. I spent the spring and summer of 2016 listening to women about why…
Good Laird! What’s in a name?
So, I’m reading a book that’s pretty decent (my review is either forthcoming or already posted, depending on when this blog post goes live), but there is simply one aspect that I cannot get past. The…
The Book Blind Taste Test #3
It’s time for another go-round in our occasional series of AAR’s adventures in blind book taste testing. This time, Lynn and Kristen describe two success stories and books they’d recommend. Lynn: Dangerous Games by Tess Diamond…
An interview with Jennie Melamed
This summer two of our reviewers reviewed Jennie Melamed’s debut novel, Gather the Daughters. In her DIK review, Kristen wrote: Gather the Daughters is a haunting tale of a society where women are controlled but children are…
Coming Soon… October 2017
It’s time once again to look ahead to the books we’re looking forward to getting stuck into next month, and as the nights are drawing in, I’m sure we’re all looking for reads to help us…
