BOOKS ON SALE – JANUARY 2017

Just a suggestion for people who have excel or its equivalent on their computers…If you copy the lists and then paste them into excel, you can sort the information how ever you like.

Yes, DGR, I think it would be great if the boards could be restored. I’d also just make it one board–I’ve always thought the division was confusing.

Thanks to all of you who have worked on this site, past and present. It’s a thankless job sometimes, but your hard work is appreciated. I will say I do like lists by author, but having said that, I got back on the reading train by your releases by upcoming month. P.s. Amazon needs to have a downloadable format so you don’t have to enter everything all over again. I bet you have all wished for the same thing!

Call me crazy, but if an author gives you a book to review, but then asks that you not quote directly to it because the editing not quite finished, it’s called having your cake and eating it too. To me, that request is unreasonable.

I, for one, want to request the old site’s ability to pose a question or a review to the general population. I miss hearing what others have to say about topics not directly pertinent to the review of a particular book. It’s what made AAR so appealing. If anything, I think AAR should be thinking of ways to expand that service.

I appreciated AAR asking for people’s reactions to this new site (before you eliminated them), but reading people’s thoughts is sorely missed. I’m suspect I’m not alone, but there’s no real way to register our requests to reinstate the discussions.

I apologize for not threading this correctly, but I’m not getting a reply link for Kay’s comment and wonderful list. I was just going to say that The Rule Maker by Jennifer Blackwood is actually out today, 1/16. Guess what’s on my kindle already? Wheeee!

I really like the “Books on Sale” posts (my wallet does not :) ). I appreciate all of the hard work and time that goes into putting them together.

With respect to formatting suggestions, I too prefer the listings to be by author. With so many Dukes and Scandals or Scandalous Dukes, the titles get confusing. Also is it possible to have a separate link/category for these posts so that they can be accessed directly from the menu?

Thanks for all of your efforts in keeping this site thriving.

Yes, I do know that lots of volunteers are responsible for a lot of the work–if not most–that goes on AAR. I do thank them.

I didn’t realize that my comment would stir up such hurt feelings. That was not my intent. If anyone felts dismissed, belittled, or hurt by my original organizational request and explanation of standard organization of books (see any library card catalogue, for example), I am sorry. I am truly amazed that my comment caused such a response–I stated a wish (which by definition if personal and hardly worded as an order) and I did say “please” when explaining standard organization. I do realize that nobody knows all the little things that are seen often as irrelevant. Heaven knows the millions of things that I don’t know. Again: if I offended you, I regret that.

Dabney, thanks for following up. The favorite quotes I mean are taken from the novels themselves. Sometimes they’re just a single sentence of dialog, or a bit of narration. For example, in Dragon Bound the heroine is given a piece of jewelry by the Dragon hero and asks, “Have I just been added to his hoard?,” whereupon a henchman says, “No cupcake, I’m pretty sure you’ve replaced it.” Coming across that quote launched me on a long run of delightful reads (and many purchases) of Thea Harrisons’s PNRs. The favorite quotes get to me much more than cover art. That’s why I love to read “favorites” from blogs and reviewers whose opinions I respect.

I very seldom comment but I have been frequenting (lurking) AAR on and off since the early days and I have to say this is by far the best and most easily accessible it has ever been. So, thank you for all your hard work and for having introduced me to so many incredible authors and books.

I am happy to see that you are going to continue this feature as I was in the habit of checking it every month. I, too, tend to search for authors I read or have heard about vs titles. The reviews here at AAR keep me coming back; they are well-written, balanced, and point out specifically what worked and didn’t work for the reviewer. Thank you for all you do to keep the site going. I value it greatly.

I posted a list of Upcoming Releases at the new AAR Group at Goodreads. I’d share the link but I am not sure how. I look forward to seeing what everyone else is looking forward to in the next few months. I am excited for Eloisa James new book, Seven Minutes of Heaven. There are quite a few coming out in February that look good.

I wish, in the future, that you’d organize this list and the others by authors’ last name.

If do you choose to do so by title, please observe organizational rules: any title that begins with “a, an,” and “the,” should be alphabetized by the next word. For example, your first title, _A Certain Age_should have been filed under “Certain, ” not “A.” If you were organizing thousands of titles, given the commonness of these articles (a, an, the), it is so much more efficient to ignore them and file by the second word. This organizational pattern is standard.