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Writing to a Soundtrack: A Guest Post by Alexandra Y. Caluen
I’m a longtime fan of a series by Carrie Vaughn about Kitty the werewolf. Kitty works in radio, and each book leads off with a short playlist. I always liked that idea. Since I started learning…
The Best Book of 2020: Round Two
And it’s down to 25 books. Hundreds of you picked your favorites in Round One and now it’s time to whittle the list down to your top ten. You may only pick one from the dropdown…
Best Belated Reads of 2020
I want to spend my year reading books I love, and while that often means taking chances on new releases, I also spend a lot of time catching up on the books I missed from previous…
the ask@AAR: What’s your least favorite insult leveled at romance?
Elaine S, a long time AAR reader and commenter, recently sent us an exceedingly irritating article from Britain’s the Daily Mail about the upcoming romance to be published by the Duchess of York. (And, we hear,…
The Best Book of 2020? The readers decide!
Over the past year, we’ve reviewed and discussed hundreds of books published this year, some of which we loved. We’ve shared with you our reviewers’ Best of 2020 lists–the AAR staff picked 76 books they thought…
The Best Book of 2020: AAR Staff Picks
While the AAR staff each shares a list of books published last year they love, every year they are asked to come up with their FAVORITE read. This year, after being informed that “No, you cannot…
Dear Streaming Services: What to do after Bridgerton?
The huge ratings and buzz for Netflix’s Bridgerton, coming on the heels of Starz’s success with Outlander, should make it clear to all but the most willfully ignorant producers that viewers are here for historical romance.…
