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Coming Soon – The Books We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in January 2023

Well, here we are, kicking off our regular “Coming Soon” feature for 2023 with a look at the new releases for January.  There’s a lot to choose from this month – let’s hope this is the…

The Best of 2022 – Charlotte’s List

It’s been a good reviewing year for me, mathematically speaking: six recommending grades and four As. Here are the four Desert Isle Keepers I read this year that got me waxing poetic. While they all have…

the ask@AAR: What books, shows, movies, or other things are you looking forward to in 2023?

Another year has flown by and–I can barely believe this–2023 is almost upon us. I’m super pumped for this coming year–my husband is going to retire and I can’t wait. But that’s not the only thing…

TBR Challenge December 2022 – Festive

As the year winds to a close, we get a prompt to read something “Festive” for the TBR Challenge. I love that the choice of holiday is open-ended. Over the years I’ve read Christmas, Hanukkah, Mardi…

The Best of 2022 – Dolly’s List

It’s been a long year, y’all, but thankfully there were a lot of great books to read. Here are my favourites. The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling I was surprised by how much I really enjoyed…

the ask@AAR: Do you like holiday romances?

Currently we have over two hundred reviews tagged as holiday romances. One, One Christmas Knight by Kathleen Creighton garnered one of our rare (55) A+reviews. There’s also an snarky F–our reviewer had nothing good to say…

The Best of 2022 – Lisa’s List

This was a strange little year – a year of both becomings and possibilities; of losses and gains. Of learning how to do and to deal and a lot of great reads. These are my (roughly)…

The Best of 2022 – Kayne’s List

This year I read more contemporary romances, especially books that made me laugh. I also branched out and tried more new-to-me authors, many of which made it onto my Best of 2022 list. Nora Goes off…

the ask@AAR: What was the best thing that happened this year?

‘Tis the season to be jolly, right? 2022 was a reasonable year. It wasn’t the sh*tshow that 2020 was or filled with 2020 PTSD like 2021. Billions of vaccines were administered world wide, Michigan beat Ohio…