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the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite tearjerker romance?
Lately, I’ve been craving a book that will break my heart… and then put it back together again. It’s been so long since I read a romance that made me ugly cry that, honestly, I can’t…
Coming Soon – The Romances We’re Most Looking Forward to Reading in February 2020
The best thing about the long, dark, cold evenings is being able to curl up with a good book! Every month, AAR staffers comb through the lists of upcoming releases to find the ones we think…
Our Favorites: The Best Romance Novels of 2019
We call this annual column The Best Romance Novels of a given year and it is, but with a caveat. Each reviewer picks a single book she thought was the best – defined as excelling all…
the ask@AAR: An HEA? An HFN? How do you define a happy ending?
I’m not sure how old you have to be to cringe when you hear the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song. For those of you whose childhoods were blessedly free of this rhyme, it went like this: (NAME) and (NAME)…
The Best of 2019–Dabney’s List
Like many an AAR reader, I was a child repeatedly decried as “lost in a book.” I am a swift reader and, while growing up, read a book every two days. In 2019, I read 87…
The Best of 2019 – Lynn’s List
2019 was a strange reading year for me. On the one hand, I did read a lot of books I enjoyed. However, they tended to be of the backlist variety. Something about packing two new babies…
the ask@AAR: Why do YOU read romance?
A recent article in the Washington Post was titled Reading will supposedly make you a better person. That’s not the real reason to pick up a book. In it, the author wrote:
