the ask@AAR: What is the best historical fiction you’ve read lately?

the ask@AAR: What is the best historical fiction you’ve read lately?

I cannot stop raving about The Frozen River, Ariel Lawson’s upcoming book. I can’t wait for youall to be able to read it. It is the best historical fiction I’ve read in a good long while. Lawson’s book is about Martha Ballard, an American midwife who lived from 1735 to 1812. Ballard is a well-known…

the ask@AAR: Are people more rude than in the past? And if so, why?

the ask@AAR: Are people more rude than in the past? And if so, why?

Lately, everywhere I read, I see articles about the increased cruelty/meanness/rudeness of our modern world. Articles titled  How America Got Mean, Bad behavior at ‘Barbenheimer’ reflects a worrying trend, If you’ve felt like people are getting crueler, you may be right, We no longer know how to behave in public, and others are proliferating like Taylor…

the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite documentary film?

the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite documentary film?

We are living in a golden age for documentary films. Lately, when I ask people what they’re watching, almost everyone speaks with passion about a documentary. In the past month alone, friends have raved to me about How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Finding Vivian Maier, Fantastic Fungi, Tiny Creatures, My Octopus Teacher, Honeyland,…

the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite Marriage of Convenience romance?

the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite Marriage of Convenience romance?

One of my very favorite tropes is the marriage of convenience love story. It’s a common one in romance, perhaps more so in historicals–we have 85 books tagged as such here and I’m sure we’ve missed a bunch. My favorites, off the top of my head, are Ravishing the Heiress and (loosely) Dukes are Forever. (I…

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