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April 2020 TBR Challenge – Freebie

This month’s TBR Challenge prompt pretty much left the reading choices wide open. After all, with the word “freebie,” one can come up with all kinds of things. Gift books, Kindle deals, books about free stuff,…

How’s everyone doing?

Hi guys! How you doing? Anyone got any good news to share? I organized a family Zoom meeting for my very global family and we managed to get my son in India, my brother’s family in…

The Good Time Book Club at AAR: Read Manhunting with us!

The votes are in and we’re reading Jennifer Crusie’s Manhunting! Here’s the summary from Amazon: Kate Svenson may be a dynamite businesswoman—but after three failed engagements, she’s decided she’s hopeless at romance. What she needs is…

the ask@AAR: Wanna read a book together?

We’ve talked about having an AAR book club for what feels like forever and, you know what, it’s time. I made a few executive decisions so we could get started. The book had to be fun,…

The Wayback on Wednesday: Elizabeth Hoyt pens an epilogue.

published on January 1, 2008 Earlier this year we presented to you, our readers, in celebration of our tenth anniversary online, parody epilogues. Unlike the PPP Contest, these epilogues are not be judged; they are simply…

the ask@AAR: What books would you add to our Top 100 Romances list? Take away?

It’s been almost two years since we published our last Top 100 Romances list. This list, which AAR has done every five years or so, is a reader generated list–the last list was picked by readers…

The Wayback on Wednesday: Loving Problematic Books

originally published on June 13, 2013 Grading books is not always straightforward. For me, there is no rubric, no checklist of Do’s and Don’ts. I have a few deal-breakers, but not many. When I assign a…

We’re all in this together–and we’ve got a page to prove it!

Update: Just checking in to see how everyone is doing. Most of us are now living under shelter in place orders for at least the next month. For me, that’s meant a lot of one of…

Coming Soon… The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in April 2020

The world is a crazy place right now, and wherever you are we at AAR send our very best wishes and hope you and yours are staying safe and healthy. At times like these, we all…