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AAR offers seven eight forums - our newest, The Wild Wild West, is currently in beta testing. Five are provided for you to discuss everything under the sun in terms of romance novels and three forums are here for your off-topic conversation. And just as with all of AAR, whether hosted internally or by others, our nav menu up can be found on top of all pages and our mini-search module on the bottom.

Though our forums are open in terms of who can read them, our system requires registration in order to post, and approval thereof. Click the "register" link, then follow the automated instructions. We will try and approve your registration as soon as possible.

Each forum has a similar structure, which includes a definition of the forum and how it is to be used, then the "discuss" area for your topics.

If you think a topic should be split (due to length or change of subject), please PM LLB.

Some important "jump" links (these links will open a new window in your browser):

AAR's FAQ | Netiquette | Forum Policies | Avatars, Sig Lines, & Our Forums

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The At the Back Fence Forum is dedicated to discussion of topics raised in the current At the Back Fence column. Please post on this forum only about the new ATBF column - for May 5th - after you've read it. The questions we provide are simply a jumping off point for you; feel free to discuss the column in any way you wish.

To be sure you access the newest column by using the link above, always click here to refresh the page first.

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Do you read everything you start, or do you have a DNF category? If you used to finish everything you read but no longer do, what changed your mind? If you continue to read everything you start, why do you suppose that is?

Whether you do so mentally or in actually, do you grade or rank your reads? If so, what are your criterion for a one star or three star or F or C book? If you don't grade/rank your reads, either in your head or on paper/computer, is there some sort of mental assessment you go through after closing a book, and if so, what is it?

What do you think is worse to read, a C or an F, and why? Is reading an F the same as watching a horrible movie, or is it different because you can watch a movie communally? Does that even out, though, by being able to share an F reading experience through talking or writing about it with friends and/or online?

Share - or at the very least, consider some of your most memorable Fs, and why they remain in your memory. Now do the same with some C reads...which group of books, if any, did you find it easier or more fun to write about?

What are your clunkers from this year? What are your Cs from this year? Do you think you'll remember any of them a year...or two...or five from now?

This is your forum to respond to the questions we posed in the current At the Back Fence column.

You should feel free to agree or disagree with any of the column's contributors or those posting on the forum, but, please, no flaming. This should be a fun, if occasionally vociferous place to visit!

You may respond within this topic or start your own topic.

The Reviews Forum is dedicated to interaction between readers on the more than 6,000 books we've reviewed (or written about in Pandora's Box) at AAR. Discussions are not limited to the reviews/PB columns themselves, but they should provide a nice start. Please post on this board only about books reviewed by AAR or in Pandora's Box. If your post does not belong on this board, it will be deleted without notice.

Some "jump" links you might find useful (these links will open a new window in your browser):

Review Policies | Reviews in the Works | Did You Know...?

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AAR advertising policy prohibits the placement of ads for specific titles or authors on review pages. This prohibition is exclusive of the Reviews Forum.

You should feel free to agree or disagree with any of our reviewers or other participants on this forum, but, please, no flaming. This should be a fun, if occasionally vociferous place to visit!

You may respond to other topics...or start your own.

The Reader to Reader Forum is dedicated to providing readers an arena for asking and receiving answers for factual questions, and for discussing books we have not [yet] reviewed at AAR.

What posts belong on this forum?

• Posts about books not reviewed or not yet reviewed at AAR. As with other pages at AAR, a mini-search module like this one is located at the bottom of the forum.
• Posts about authors and books or any other subject that are essentially questions that can be answered definitively. (For example: How many books has Liz Carlyle written? What's a good UBS in Savannah? Who was the Duke of Earl? Here's the description of a book...what is its title?)
• Questions about historical definitions and history in general, although you might want to check out our Historical Cheat Sheet first.

If your post does not belong on this forum, it will be deleted without notice.

Some "jump" links you might find useful (these links will open a new window in your browser):

AAR's FAQ | Netiquette

Policies | Reviews in the Works

You should feel free to agree or disagree with any other participant on this forum, but, please, no flaming. This should be a fun, if occasionally vociferous place to visit!

You may respond to other topics...or start your own.

The Potpourri Forum is essentially a topics forum for postings on issues not discussed in the current At the Back Fence column, for postings about all other non-review content at AAR, and for your general topics-oriented rants and raves.

What posts belong on this forum?

• Posts on topics you'd like to see covered in a future issue of At the Back Fence (this is also the forum ATBF columnists use to gather information for column segments).
• Posts on topics covered in past issues of At the Back Fence. Including the date or column number in your post helps other readers participate.
• Posts about non-reviews content such as covers and genre trends, for example.
• General romance reading rants and raves such as romance novel pet peeves.

If your post does not belong on this forum, it will be deleted without notice.

As always, please don't feed the trolls!

You should feel free to agree or disagree with any other participant on this forum, but, please, no flaming. This should be a fun, if occasionally vociferous place to visit!

You may respond to other topics...or start your own.

An At the Back Fence column generally is "new" for a period of a week. When it is replaced by another new column, ATBF Forum discussions are moved into the Potpourri area. Previous to our move to the phpbb system, we downloaded these discussions onto LLB's hard drive and deleted them from online. Now we can maintain them online.

January 1st, 2008 was our tenth anniversary online as a full-service website. Our celebration featured a stupendous sweepstakes as well as author and reader testimonials, and part one of an epilogue parody feature created for you by some talented authors.

Sweepstakes | Author Testimonials | Reader Testimonials | Epilogue Parodies

The Writer's News Forum is available for writers to reach out directly to readers regarding book tour, signing, and contest information, for writers to communicate with one another, and for writer's groups to provide information.

If your post does not belong on this forum, it will be deleted without notice.

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You should feel free to agree or disagree with any other participant on this forum, but, please, no flaming. This should be a fun, if occasionally vociferous place to visit!

You may respond to other topics...or start your own.

We offer the off-topic Entertainment Forum for discussion of non-book-related entertainment such as film, television, music, and other items in pop culture.

If your post does not belong on this forum, it will be deleted without notice.

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You should feel free to agree or disagree with any other participant on this forum, but, please, no flaming. This should be a fun, if occasionally vociferous place to visit!

You may respond to other topics...or start your own.

We offer the off-topic General Chat Forum for discussion of the things you'd like to talk about besides reading (except for religion and politics!) and/or like to do besides reading. Are you a foodie? Talk about restaurants or share recipes here. Do you scrapbook or like to hike? Feel free to post about everything under the sun save politics and religion on this forum...let's broaden the scope of the AAR community.

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As always, please don't feed the trolls!

You may respond to other topics...or start your own.

This forum is currently in beta testing.

We offer the Wild Wild West for the most adventurous and outspoken among us. This no-holds barred forum allows those of you who choose to participate to speak of the unspeakable...including politics and religion. As in the Wild West, though, there's no sheriff living in town and instead, it's visited occasionally by a circuit judge. Which means you're mostly on your own. Don't post here unless you can keep your cool and maintain a tongue-in-cheek air. To extend the frontier metaphor, if you need saving because you are easily offended, go back to the big city - ie, our other seven forums.

If your post does not belong on this forum, it will be deleted without notice.

As always, please don't feed the trolls!