Comments on: Announcing the Latest Special Title List Updates! http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: pwnn http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79774 pwnn Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:33:43 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79774 >>Titles we had trouble with were the ones published in the 1980s. In a contemporary would the issues brought up in the relationship still be relevant today.<<

I don't understand why this matters, any more than I understand the concerns with books becoming "dated". What should matter is if the story, the characters and the writing is still engaging- and that is often largely a matter of taste.

It's not as if there aren't many contemporaries that have issues I don't consider currently all that relevant or important or there aren't historicals that aren't completely wallpaper that deal with issues that aren't relevant anymore.

]]> By: CindyS http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79698 CindyS Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:40:18 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79698 The lists are fluid – something that is considered wonderful today may actually fade over time and it could be removed from the list in the coming years. These books have not ‘stood the test of time’ but have received good grades and enough readers loved them that they make the list.

Titles we had trouble with were the ones published in the 1980s. In a contemporary would the issues brought up in the relationship still be relevant today. If the answer is yes and readers still love the book then the story will have stood the test of time.

Titles recently published make the list but in 10 years maybe they will fall off.

Thanks,
CindyS

]]> By: Linniegayl http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79683 Linniegayl Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:41:36 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79683 :) . Good question. It really applies to older books so must look at rewording that text in the future. Oops

]]> By: Sue Stewart http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79682 Sue Stewart Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:38:36 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79682 Um. I guess I have to ask: How has a book published recently been proved to “stand the test of time”? :)

]]> By: Linniegayl http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79671 Linniegayl Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:03:38 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79671 Thanks mark. My instinct would be either in both or just in one with an explanation. What do you think?

]]> By: Mark http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79667 Mark Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:35:25 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79667 Actually, Firelight is a Victorian-set historical paranormal romance.
When a story is both historical and paranormal, should it be listed as a historical paranormal, a paranormal historical, historical/paranormal, or what?

]]> By: Linniegayl http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79665 Linniegayl Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:23:57 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79665 Thanks Victoria s. l’ll have to admit that we’ve been confused by a few of the lists as well. We’re trying to sharpen the definitions as we go along.

]]> By: VictoriaS http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055&cpage=1#comment-79664 VictoriaS Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:10:31 +0000 http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=9055#comment-79664 I don’t vote, because I can never seem to wrap my head around how a book should be categorized. But each time I see the revised listing I think…”oh, yeah, that’s what they meant…” So I am grateful to all those who do vote, and grateful to you at AAR for, keeping and updating the lists. Thanks!

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