July 2018 TBR Challenge – Tropetastic!
The TBR Challenge usually includes a prompt at some time during the year which gives participants the chance to pick a book that uses their favourite trope. This time around it’s July’s prompt, and Caz and…
June TBR Challenge – A Comfort Read
The “comfort read” prompt for this month’s TBR Challenge can be a tough one, as often the books that spring to mind are those well-read tomes to which we come back time after time… which doesn’t help…
AAR Shannon | Anne Marble | audio books | BJ Jansen | Caz AAR | Dabney AAR | EmAAR | graphic novels | Keira Soleore | Kristen D | Lisa F | Lynn Spencer | Maggie AAR | Re-reading | Reading | Romance reading
“I couldn’t put it down…” What was YOUR last unputdownable read?
The unputdownable read… it’s kind of the holy grail of books, isn’t it? That book that hooks you in on the first page and doesn’t let you go until the last; the book you enjoy so…
May TBR Challenge – Contemporary Romance
Sometimes in doing the TBR Challenge, we learn more about our reading habits than we realized. Since the May TBR Challenge prompt is contemporary romance, I went combing through my stacks – and came up almost…
Dabney AAR | Keira Soleore | Kristen D | Lee AAR | Lisa F | Lynn Spencer | Maggie AAR | Maria Rose | Reading | Romance | Romance reading
Fond First Times… Our first experiences with romance novels
Most of us remember when we first started reading romance, who introduced us to it or how we discovered it ourselves, and – perhaps even – which book we first read.
April TBR Challenge – Kickin’ it Old-Skool
This month for the TBR Challenge, we were challenged to read a book at least 10 years ago. We both went further than that, with each of us choosing a Harlequin Historical from the 1990s. Our…
BJ Jansen | Caz AAR | Keira Soleore | Kristen D | Lynn Spencer | Maria Rose | Mary Dube | Romance reading | Romancelandia | RWA
Congratulations to the 2018 RITA and Golden Heart Finalists!
March is an exciting month for romance writers, as it’s when the Romance Writers of America announces their finalists in the RITA and Golden Heart contests for published books and unpublished manuscripts, respectively, submitted in the fall of…
March TBR Challenge – Sugar and Spice (Naughty or Nice!)
This month’s TBR challenge called upon us to go to extremes in terms of sensuality ratings – either bedroom door firmly closed or anything goes. Unintentionally, Caz and I both picked books from the milder end…
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…
TBR Challenge, January 2018: We Love Shorts!
It’s 2018, and we’re back with another round of TBR Challenge. Lynn and Caz have enjoyed several years of this, and this month, we’re easing back in with a little something short. The theme allows for…