Favorite Authors or Genres?

[Meyou]

Ok, you asked for the nerd and I'm bringing her. I am a sci fi and fantasy geek with a touch of fact based historical fiction thrown in (preferably with a sci fi twist). I also love anything post apocolyptic or steampunk which technically falls under sci fi but I feel like they deserve their own shoutout. I've passed the nerd on to my children to a degree that they're a little odd now. My 15 year old has already booked her baby cousin for trick or treating so she can dress him up as a hobbit while she and her friends are other LOTR characters. ::

Favorite authors:

James Rollins
Michael Cricton
Robert Jordan
Sara Douglass
Eion Colfer
Diana Gabaldon
Ken Follett (historical writing not thrillers)
Phillipa Gregory
Jack Whyte

[KristineHappyMom]

My favorite author is Gabriel Garcia Marquez! I like how he combines magic with reality

[Jennie M. Martin]

Authors

My favorite authors are:
Ray Bradbury
Kurt Vonnegut
Charlotte Bronte
Robin McKinley
I also like J.K Rowling, Heather Brewer, and Elizabeth Scott.

[DaveA]

Most of my reading is "how to's", especially on cooking, gardening/ homesteading, and bladesmithing or knifemaking.

If I'm reading to relax I tend to keep it simple: Louis L'Amour, Vince Flynn, and Brad Thor.

[Play Care]

Right now my favorites are:

Susanna Kearsley
Kate Morton
Kimberley Freeman


I just read The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simpson and enjoyed that.

Though I love Janet Evonovich's Stephanie Plum series when I need a laugh.

[Play Care]

Ok, you asked for the nerd and I'm bringing her. I am a sci fi and fantasy geek with a touch of fact based historical fiction thrown in (preferably with a sci fi twist). I also love anything post apocolyptic or steampunk which technically falls under sci fi but I feel like they deserve their own shoutout. I've passed the nerd on to my children to a degree that they're a little odd now. My 15 year old has already booked her baby cousin for trick or treating so she can dress him up as a hobbit while she and her friends are other LOTR characters. ::

Favorite authors:

James Rollins
Michael Cricton
Robert Jordan
Sara Douglass
Eion Colfer
Diana Gabaldon
Ken Follett (historical writing not thrillers)
Phillipa Gregory
Jack Whyte

I loved the first two books in Gabaldon's series. But she really need to find a happy conclusion for Jamie and Clare.i need sunshine and rainbows

[nannyde]

Maya Angelou is my current main squeeze.

I have all of her books in first edition signed. It was so tempting to sell right after her passing because they went for crazy money but I want to pass them on to my brilliant niece when I pass.

I started re reading them. I love that she had her hand on each book. When I was a Nanny the family I worked for were friends so I had her home address and number. Each time a new book came out I sent to her and she signed and returned. I sent a check for postage each time but it was always returned. She was the bomb!

[sugar buzz]

Maya Angelou is my current main squeeze.

I have all of her books in first edition signed. It was so tempting to sell right after her passing because they went for crazy money but I want to pass them on to my brilliant niece when I pass.

I started re reading them. I love that she had her hand on each book. When I was a Nanny the family I worked for were friends so I had her home address and number. Each time a new book came out I sent to her and she signed and returned. I sent a check for postage each time but it was always returned. She was the bomb!

What an awesome story! I'm so glad that you didn't sell them. I don't think that anything you could have bought would have been worth as much.

[drseuss]

The book I am reading right now takes place in Vermont. Two Rivers by T. Greenwood. I'm devouring it! T.Greenwood has a few good books out.

Haven Kimmel and Jeannette Walls are two good ones.

I am hung up on Pillars of the Earth, because I thought I would hate it and ended up loving it. Just starting that one for the second time.

I love memoirs, historical fiction if it is done well, books about hiking-fiction or non- (also reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson), books that depict characters transitioning between two major chapters in their lives, small town life, things like that.

I have enjoyed Jodi Picoult also. Plain Truth is one of my favorite JP books. Change of Heart was good too.

[Cat Herder]

Dr. Robin Cook lovethis