Every Friday, we ask you what YOU think about an issue in romance. The questions are good (we think)–the comments much better! So join us, every Friday at the [email protected]!
the [email protected]: What’s your favorite sports romance?
Over the past weeks, like vast swaths of America, every Sunday night, my family watched ESPN’s The Last Dance documentary series featuring the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) Michael Jordan and his 1990s Chicago Bulls [...]
the [email protected]: If he can’t do that, can she?
Last week, I was thoroughly enjoying an upcoming historical romance when, in a fit of understandable anger, the heroine slapped the hero across the face hard enough to leave a mark. As I continued reading, [...]
the [email protected]: What’s your preferred way to read?
Here’s a somewhat shocking confession: I haven’t read an actual book in over a year. And I don’t want to. Unless I can read a book on the Kindle app on my iPad, I’m just [...]
the [email protected]: What romance novel/author makes you laugh?
My husband adores stand up comedy. I do not. My siblings all rave about Curb Your Enthusiasm. I think it's mean and unfunny. Others in my book club--the less fun one--cracked up over Where’d You [...]
the [email protected]: How are we doing?
Happy May Day! As you may have noticed, AAR’s look has been a bit unstable in the past couple of weeks. We were required to do updates that have not [...]
the [email protected]: And the best enemies to lovers romance is…?
Recently, seeking joy, I re-read The Hating Game which made me, well, happy. Josh and Lucy’s battle for superiority is gleeful and witty and their love story outstanding. (That kiss in the elevator gets me [...]
the [email protected]: What, in a sex scene, makes you say “nope?”
I am reading a book in which the man nasty talks the whole damn time he and his honey are 1) talking about having sex, 2) having sex, or 3) talking about when they had [...]
the [email protected]: 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 [...]
the [email protected]: 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 [...]
the [email protected]: What’s the greatest kiss of all time?
Since the invention of the kiss, there have been five kisses rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. (from The Princess Bride) […]
the [email protected]: What’s your secret guilty pleasure romance?
I hate the term “guilty pleasure.” (“A guilty pleasure is something that we enjoy, but we know we’re either not supposed to like, or that liking it says something negative about us,” said Sami Schalk, [...]
the [email protected]: What are your favorite romances featuring scientists?
Today, when a friend on Facebook pointed out that you can’t have a pandemic without panic, I was practicing deep breathing. (I’d just read the New York Times.) I had, like so many, been freaking [...]
This is good. Now all the arguments are in a single place.
Ha ha ha!