Blog Archive
A Golden Age for Inspirational Romance?
Last Friday on Twitter, I saw Wendy the Superlibrarian tweeting about how inspirationals have changed. No kidding! This is a development that has THRILLED me in recent years – not to mention adding some variety to…
Spinal Tap: This One Goes to 11
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVKWCpNFhY Jean’s post about her discovery of Christopher Guest has had me fondly remembering my favorite bits from movie pasts. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, it’s easy. This is Spinal Tap was when most of…
Bad Boys – How Bad is too Bad?
So, apparently Chris Brown has a new album out. What? The fact that he isn’t in jail somewhere is hard enough to reconcile, but that his career is still viable? I’m truly shocked. Worse yet, prior…
When Too Much is Too Much – Literally
So I was tooling along happily, reading the first dialogue between hero and heroine, and suddenly the hero concludes that he had rarely been so expertly teased. Expert teasing my ass. The hero hasn’t done anything…
I Miss Mall Bookstores
AAR’s Ellen Micheletti was recently mourning the sad passing of a Waldenbooks in her town in Kentucky. I well know the feeling. Until about five years ago, there were two malls in my area — Tysons…
Eagerly Awaiting for January
AAR Staff again weighs in with which coming January books they are dying to read. Title and Author Reviewer Chalice of Roses anthology Blythe, Lynn, Rike The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig Jane,…
AAR Annual Reader Poll: A Heads Up About Some Changes
We’re coming up to our yearly tradition here at AAR and we wanted to give our readers a chance to prepare for a few changes in the Annual Reader Poll. The annual poll when readers get…