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TBR Challenge 2017: A Quick Read

By Lynn Spencer|2017-06-23T08:30:02-04:00January 18th, 2017|Categories: Caz AAR, Historicals, Lynn AAR, Romance reading, TBR Challenge|Tags: ruth wind, Virginia Heath|

It’s the 3rd of week of January (already!), and that means it’s time for romance bloggers to start shrinking their TBR piles in unison. Or, if you’re like me, you read everyone else’s blog entries and start bingeing on books. This month of the TBR Challenge starts off nice and light, with short reads such as novellas, category romance, etc… Caz and I both had fun.

That Despicable Rogue by Virginia Heath

Virginia Heath registered on my radar when her début novel came out in the Spring of 2016, but I didn’t manage to get around to reading it. I did, however, pick up her next book, Her Enemy at the Altar, and enjoyed it very much – on the strength of that one book, I decided I had a new author to follow by virtue of […]

AAR Staff Top 10 Favorites – Heather's Picks

By Lynn Spencer|2019-05-10T13:09:26-04:00June 11th, 2013|Categories: All About Romance, Heather S. AAR|Tags: Barbara Samuel, Ilona Andrews, J.R. Ward, judith mcnaught, Kresley Cole, loretta chase, Marsha Canham, Nora Roberts, Pamela Clare, ruth wind, Susanna Kearsley, Top Ten lists, top ten romance novels|

When you’re a voracious reader, picking a top 10 is a daunting task. There are so many books that I’ve loved and in many different ways or for different reasons. Some may be because they’ve brought me to a particular sub-genre. Some I’ve loved perhaps because they struck the right note for me for where I was emotionally at the time I read them. And some are on my favorites list just because they have that certain je ne se quois that causes me to connect with the story and characters. Whatever the reason may be, AAR has brought me fantastic recommendations for many years thanks to the wonderful community of reviewers, pollsters, commenters, and visitors to our message boards.

My highly scientific method of decision-making consisted of going through my reading log and if a book made me squee with delight, I short listed it. Then I […]

Casting My Favorites

By AAR Admin|2017-06-23T08:31:54-04:00April 30th, 2010|Categories: Authors, Characters, Heroes, Reading, Romance reading|Tags: alexander skarsgard, anna paquin, charlaine harris, clive owen, Diana Gabaldon, dreaming of you, heath ledger, in the midnight rain, Lisa Kleypas, Outlander, peter horton, ruth wind, sam trammell, stephen moyer|

clive We’re talking casting here again at the AAR blog.

Lynn wrote earlier this week about how she never, ever visualizes actors as characters in a novel she’s reading. Truth is I rarely do either.

But sometimes something just clicks and the pairing of an actor with a character feels totally right.

The list of favorite characters that I haven’t cast is far (far, far, far) longer than the characters I have.

In fact, I’ve really only cast three.

Clive Owen as Derek Craven:

I’ve loved Derek Craven since he first crossed my path w-a-a-a-a-y back in 1994 when Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas was first published. Back then, as is typical with me, I never pictured him as having a particular face.

Then I saw Clive Owen. I forget what film – maybe Croupier – first introduced me to his wonders, but by the time Gosford Park was released in 2001, I […]