February TBR Challenge – Backlist Glom
This month’s prompt for the multi-blog TBR Challenge is one that is fairly simple for a lot of voracious readers. We simply have to choose a book from an author represented more than once in our…
Deck the Halls… with the December TBR Challenge!
Lord St. Claire’s Angel by Donna Lea Simpson For December’s prompt of a Holiday Read, I went with this Traditional Regency which is, on the surface, your basic fairy-tale type story of a plain-Jane who finds…
Miranda Neville, you will be missed
I was shocked last week to find out historical romance author Miranda Neville had passed away. I knew she had been sick because she’d been away from Twitter for a while and when she returned we…
October TBR Challenge – Paranormals versus Suspense
October’s TBR Challenge prompt was to read either a Romantic Suspense or Paranormal Romance: AAR reviewers Lynn Spencer and Caz Owens went for one of each. Northern Lights by Nora Roberts I’ve been a reader of…
Historicals | Kristen D | Lynn AAR | Reading | Romance | Romance reading
The Book Blind Taste Test #3
It’s time for another go-round in our occasional series of AAR’s adventures in blind book taste testing. This time, Lynn and Kristen describe two success stories and books they’d recommend. Lynn: Dangerous Games by Tess Diamond…
September TBR Challenge – Historicals Galore!
My Lady Thief by Emily Larkin The Historicals prompt in the TBR Challenge is my Busman’s Holiday, but it can nonetheless be quite difficult to choose a book from the many still sitting unread on my…
Authors | Caz AAR | giveaways | Historicals | Interviews | Romance | Romance reading
Chatting with Virginia Heath… and a Giveaway
Back in the dim but not so distant past – more specifically, December 2016 – when I was choosing my favourite books of the year, I realised I’d been lucky enough to find no less than…
AAR interviews the marvelous Joanna Bourne
Dabney: Jo, you know AAR and its readers are the biggest Spymaster fans on the planet. (We’ve reviewed them all at least once!) Thank you so much for chatting with us. Jo: I am so happy…
July TBR Challenge – Catch Up on a Series (or Not)
For this month’s challenge, we were called upon to pick a book from a series we’re behind on. One of us followed instructions and the other? Well, we at least tried to stay in the spirit…
AAR Shannon | Historicals | Kristen D | Lisa F | Mini reviews | Reading | Romance reading | Shannon AAR
The Book Blind Taste Test – Pick a book… any book…
I have always loved libraries, but I admit I had fallen out of the habit of using my local one recently. One of my dear friends is a middle school librarian and she (appropriately) shamed me…