Are people ruder?
I’ve had two friends in the past week say they think people are becoming “more self-absorbed,” “ruder,” and “less empathetic.” A close family member said she feels like she needs to lower her expectations for others,…
An apology for today’s the ask@AAR
I am so sorry for the phenomenal insensitivity and stupidity of today’s Ask. I had written it earlier in the week in a poorly thought out effort to connect romance to the wider world. It was dumb…
What holidays do you love to celebrate? And happy 4th of July!
I read an interesting–and to me, depressing–article in the New York Times yesterday about how the American flag itself is now considered by many a partisan symbol. The same is true for the 4th of July,…
Desperately seeking… foreskins!
There’s been a lot on my mind this year, but at the top of it is this: foreskin. I enjoy reading about sex both in romance novels and in non-fiction. The other day I was flipping…
What’s Your Reading Journey?
If you’re an AAR old timer (I’ll let you define what that means), you may be wondering if I fell off the face of the earth. Short answer: Yes, yes I did. Short version for those…
We’re all in this together–and we’ve got a page to prove it!
Update: Just checking in to see how everyone is doing. Most of us are now living under shelter in place orders for at least the next month. For me, that’s meant a lot of one of…
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To the Wonderful Readers of AAR, a Request
This post is now closed. Keira will be contacting those of you who have said they’d like to participate. Thanks! Through more than twenty years of All About Romance’s reviews, AAR’s readers have visited, read…
Romance Rx To the Rescue!
My mum, Nancy Jane Wullschleger Thurston, died on March 19th, 2019, just after I came home from visiting her in Sudbury, Ontario. She slipped peacefully away during an afternoon nap, in her own home, surrounded by…
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Fond First Times… Our first experiences with romance novels, part two
In part two of our reminiscences about our first experiences with romance novels, AAR staffers are here to share more of our stories about our first romances, when we read them, who we read them with…
The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen by Lori Leachman
It is amazing how revealing and enlightening funeral celebrations can be. Long-held secrets may finally be shared. The truth of a particular situation is told. Long-simmering resentments are aired, or forgotten. Memories are resurrected. The nature…