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Sometimes I Feel Like I'm Playing Calvinball
So, do we have any Calvin and Hobbes fans here? Remember Calvinball? You never play it the same way twice, and the rules are whatever Calvin says they are. These rules sometimes change midstream and often…
The Restricted Advertising Blues
When Blythe, Rachel, Lynn and I took over AAR, we decided to take a fresh look at virtually everything at the site. One of those areas was advertising. Since the inception of advertising at AAR, the…
Best of 2008, Reviewer’s Choice (Part One)
Our annual staff poll for best romance is now in its eighth year, and it’s a tradition we’re continuing at a slightly different location: Our news and commentary blog. Sadist that I am, I always enjoy…
Sweet Vindication
One of my favorite guilty pleasures in books is something I call, for lack of a better name, a “moment of triumph.” It’s a scene, usually a short one, that has some importance to the plot…
The Language Barrier
When I was a kid, I apparently had a remarkably sheltered upbringing compared to my peers. One day in second grade, my friends were all atwitter over a certain entry on the bathroom wall. I don’t…
Mills & Boon Author Celebrates 101st Birthday with 130th Book
Happy birthday to author Jean MacLeod. And thumbs-up to the UK’s Daily Mail for this remarkably condescension-free article. Ms. McLeod, who’s been writing for the publisher since 1938, says she “sent off a few ideas to…
Crazy Love
Has anybody seen the Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens documentary Crazy Love telling the totally bizarre-o real life story of Linda Riss and Burt Pugach? The human heart is a strange place, you know? Here are…