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My list of favorite authors include, but are definitely not limited to:
Agatha Christie (read all of her books numerous times)
Dan Brown
Lillian Jackson Braun (read them all)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare
Classic literature
Mysteries, suspense, action, some romance (not too much - its got to be real! ), classics....
Just finished The Last Templar (wasn't all that impressed) and The Picture of Dorian Gray.... I need new material!
(Oh, favorite book is The Scarlet Pimpernel and all other books by Baroness Orczy - haven't read them??? Please do... its WELL worth it!)
How can you not love Shakespeare? I'm with you HistorianChick. We are warped with our love of true classics that we are blinded by the realities of the world, when we look up from our stories. This can leave women like us expecting the unexpected and as once quoted by the great one, "I wait...and wait and continue to wait, always waiting."
So we will continue to learn, "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
Losing yourself in the pages of sublime literature, never results in loss, but only true gain. For by it, we are inspired to live better, love deeper, challenge our wit and opinions, and truly grow as an individual.
*sniff* I just finished Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.... *sniff* That was simply beautiful, heart-wrenching, and perfect. Thank you, so much, life1973!
I am so glad you enjoyed it, I just knew you would. It's an incredible story and a wonderful book for an evening read (more so for girls like us) I remember when I read it. I kept putting it down because I was sobbing and couldn't read the words any longer, or because I didn't want the story to end.
I grew up reading and loving books and that has never changed and I think because of that I read very quickly. That was a story in which I could have read very slowly and enjoyed it over several weeks. I told you it's just one of those stories that will bring out emotions you never thought you had. I remember while reading it I stepped into the bathtub and kept reading (of course) I was so frustrated during a chapter I tossed the book next to the tub and laid there steaming (no pun intended) By the next few lines I was crying again. Go figure...
This is one of those conversations men could not possibly begin to understand. All this fuss over a book. Am I right, or what?
There is no need to thank me just pass on the book to a girlfriend who will appreciate the story, or a stranger you know, who needs to meet Suzanne.
What other books did you end up buying at the bookstore?
I'm actually sad to say that it only took me a few hours to read Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. Looking back, I wish I had taken longer to read it as well, it was just too good!
And in those few hours, the emotional roller-coaster! WOW! Its been a long time since I've had a good cry over a book.
Anyone who has viewed these posts MUST pick up this book! It's amazingly perfect.
If you fancy a change from books that make you cry, at the back end of the 90s a guy called Keith Baker wrote 4 thrillers centered around Northern Ireland; Inheritance, Reckoning, Engram and Lunenburg. I read them all and thought they were excellent ... and looking at his background the guy knows his stuff!
The best thing is you can get them all on amazon.co.uk for 1p each!
But who am I to say such things!! As a great man once wrote;
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all!"
), classics.... 
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