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Romance Reading Quiz answers: Part Two

Today, we’re sharing the answers from the second question on this week’s reading quiz: Who is, currently, your favorite romance author? You had lots of choices but a few authors showed up a bunch!

Romance Reading Quiz answers: Part One

Whoa! Over 100 of you filled out yesterday’s quiz on your romance reading! You go! I’ll be sharing your responses over the next week. Here are your choices for: Out of all the romances you have read in…

It’s Monday and we have questions!

Happy Monday! We thought it would be fun to do a little survey–we’ll share the results this week! Go!

the ask@AAR: How’s the discussion here working out for you?

One of the great joys of 2020 has been the tenor, complexity, and abundance of the conversations here at AAR.  We’ve had so many excellent, interesting, and, yes, feisty discussions here this year.

AAR Loves: The Best Slow Burn Romance Novels

As someone whose path to reading romance included a lengthy period reading X-Files fanfiction (oh, man, who else remembers The Gossamer Project???), I am clearly a huge fan of UST – Unresolved Sexual Tension. In romance,…

Desperately seeking… foreskins!

There’s been a lot on my mind this year, but at the top of it is this: foreskin. I enjoy reading about sex both in romance novels and in non-fiction. The other day I was flipping…

the ask@AAR: What romance takes you to a far away place?

I’ve just finished my annual re-read of Meredith Duran’s debut The Duke of Shadows. The first part is set in India during the ill-fated rebellion of 1857. The rebellion began in Delhi where Emma, the book’s…

Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in October 2020

2020 may have turned out to be the Year from Hell, but the weeks and months seem to be passing as fast as ever and here we are at October, for those of us in the…

A Beginner’s Guide to Harlequins

Have you ever wondered what’s the difference between all of those Harlequin lines (Mills & Boon in the UK) lines? Do you know your Intrigue from your Romantic Suspense, your Presents from your Desire, and your…