Blog Archive
Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in October 2021
I don’t know where the last month has gone, but it’s already time for AAR’s regular Coming Soon feature, this month looking ahead to the new books we’re most looking forward to reading in October. As…
the ask@AAR: How do you get your news?
I do not watch and never have watched the news on TV. I’ve never watched 60 Minutes, The Daily Show, or the nightly news. This isn’t because I think it’s evil but rather because it’s not…
Celebrating Hispanic History Month
We celebrated Black History Month and AAPI Heritage Month, and now here is our list of recent DIKs by Hispanic authors for America’s Hispanic Heritage Month. As always, we don’t limit our list to American authors.…
The seemingly endless technical problems at AAR
On Sunday, after two of the plugins we use for comments and the forums were updated, five months of forums vanished and the forums themselves wouldn’t function properly. I spent all day Sunday trying to fix…
the ask@AAR: Do you read self-help books?
Peeps–I’ve been a bit blue lately. I’m on crutches for six weeks–months after that with a cane–due to a soft tissue hip repair. Covid continues to threaten so many things. I have a neighbor who is…
September 2021 TBR Challenge – Unusual
I think I may have been overthinking TBR Challenge a little bit. When I tried to pick out a book from my bookcase that would be “unusual”, I found myself wondering, “Unusual to whom?” After all,…
Seen any covers you love lately?
Covers in romance come up again and again and, usually, readers are complaining. Whether it’s the Fabio-licious covers of the 1990s or the cartoon covers all over the place today, there’s always a contingent who just…
the ask@AAR: What do you think about the current state of marketing in romance?
There is chatter in Romancelandia about Helen Hoang’s The Heart Principle. Where her first two books were romances, this novel–and I haven’t read it so I’m just repeating what I’ve heard–is more women’s fiction. Readers, at…
