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the ask@AARDabney Grinnan2020-05-08T08:53:51-04:00

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 ask@AAR!

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Dabney Grinnan2023-01-26T18:39:04-05:00

the ask@AAR: What’s the most imaginative romance you’ve ever read?

By Dabney Grinnan|2023-01-26T18:39:04-05:00January 27th, 2023|Tags: the ask@AAR|27 Comments

As a child, I loved fantasy--The Chronicles of Prydain, The Dark is Rising Sequence, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The Wrinkle in Time Quintet--these were books I read repeatedly, happily losing myself in a world [...]

Dabney Grinnan2023-01-19T11:27:10-05:00

the ask@AAR: Is there still a canon for romance? What books should or shouldn’t be on it?

By Dabney Grinnan|2023-01-19T11:27:10-05:00January 20th, 2023|Tags: the ask@AAR|67 Comments

Almost exactly a year ago, I asked whether or not AAR should, as it typically does every five years, do a new Top 100 poll. As is the case with most questions, readers were split. [...]

Dabney Grinnan2023-01-13T10:47:46-05:00

the ask@AAR: Will ChatGPT ruin the writing? The world?

By Dabney Grinnan|2023-01-13T10:47:46-05:00January 13th, 2023|Tags: the ask@AAR|37 Comments

It's fair to say I'm obsessed with ChatGPT. What's that, you ask? Hmmm... let me try and explain. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence bot that answers questions in fairly fluent language. It can answer almost [...]

Dabney Grinnan2023-01-06T07:39:04-05:00

the ask@AAR: What were the trends in romance in 2022?

By Dabney Grinnan|2023-01-06T07:39:04-05:00January 6th, 2023|Tags: the ask@AAR|52 Comments

Now that 2022, is in the books, what did you notice about it in romance? From my perspective, there definitely were some trends. Here, in no particular order, are some things I think happened. Was [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-12-29T11:34:21-05:00

the ask@AAR: a 2022 retrospective

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-12-29T11:34:21-05:00December 30th, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR|32 Comments

In 2022--including this one!--AAR has published 52 the ask@AAR columns. Many of these generated lots of comments. Readers had the most to say about their pet peeves in romance, trigger warnings in reviews, the election [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-12-23T09:03:16-05:00

the ask@AAR: What books, shows, movies, or other things are you looking forward to in 2023?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-12-23T09:03:16-05:00December 23rd, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR|26 Comments

Another year has flown by and--I can barely believe this--2023 is almost upon us. I'm super pumped for this coming year--my husband is going to retire and I can't wait. But that's not the only [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-12-15T12:44:03-05:00

the ask@AAR: Do you like holiday romances?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-12-15T12:44:03-05:00December 16th, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR|26 Comments

Currently we have over two hundred reviews tagged as holiday romances. One, One Christmas Knight by Kathleen Creighton garnered one of our rare (55) A+reviews. There's also an snarky F--our reviewer had nothing good to [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-12-09T07:19:13-05:00

the ask@AAR: What was the best thing that happened this year?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-12-09T07:19:13-05:00December 9th, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR|14 Comments

'Tis the season to be jolly, right? 2022 was a reasonable year. It wasn't the sh*tshow that 2020 was or filled with 2020 PTSD like 2021. Billions of vaccines were administered world wide, Michigan beat [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-12-02T08:15:12-05:00

the ask@AAR: What’s your FINAL pick for best romance of 2022?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-12-02T08:15:12-05:00December 2nd, 2022|Tags: Best of 2022, the ask@AAR|51 Comments

Hi there AAR readers! Happy December! The staff has begun submitting their Best of 2022 Lists. (I adore these--every year I discover great reads I missed!) I confess I'm having a hard time with mine. [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-11-25T07:32:41-05:00

the ask@AAR: What do we think about trigger warnings in reviews?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-11-25T07:32:41-05:00November 25th, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR|74 Comments

It's the Friday after Thanksgiving here in the US, a holiday famed for its abundant food, contested history, and familial arguments. I confess my family doesn't fight at Thanksgiving--we leave most of our giant arguments [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-11-17T16:13:24-05:00

the ask@AAR: How do you like your love stories?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-11-17T16:13:24-05:00November 18th, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR, the best of 2022|49 Comments

I was struck by a sentence written by romance novelist Adriana Herrera in the Washington Post this week. Herrera, in an article entitled The 10 Best Romance Novels of 2022, wrote: For me, this year [...]

Dabney Grinnan2022-11-09T15:29:22-05:00

the ask@AAR: What is a feminist romance?

By Dabney Grinnan|2022-11-09T15:29:22-05:00November 11th, 2022|Tags: the ask@AAR|25 Comments

Each day my inbox is full of emails about upcoming books romance readers might like to read. And, if publishers are right about romance readers--and who is to say they are or are not?--what we [...]

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05/02/2020 9:44 pm

This is good. Now all the arguments are in a single place.

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05/19/2020 8:22 am

Ha ha ha!

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