About Me |
I am a spoiler junkie, book skimmer, and end reader. The
first thing I do before reading or buying any book is read the final
pages, because, for me, the fun is in the journey and not the
destination.
I don't remember learning to read, but have vague memories of
being able to read in pre-school and ever since then always having
a pile of books around. I have yet to find a bookstore or library I
didn't like, but for the longest time I was a cautious reader
sticking to the tried and true or assigned reading. Then my first
week in college I heard this girl down the hall making all this
noise: laughing, squealing, shrieking, and I wondered what the heck was
going on. Well, she handed over Jude Deveraux's A Knight in Shining
Armor, and I stayed up all night reading it. From that day forward I
was a romance reader.
I started out slowly with Deveraux, Judith McNaught, and Sandra
Brown (authors who still grace my keeper shelves, but sadly not my
auto-buy list). My current favorite authors (and this is subject to
change with each new discovery) are: Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, Suzanne
Brockmann, Gayle Wilson (a buried treasure I recommend to everyone),
Mary Jo Putney, Linda Howard, Jennifer Crusie, Diana Gabaldon, Dee
Henderson, Tracy Grant, Kathleen Korbel, and Lorraine Heath. I know
I've left off authors, but if I put everyone down this list would be endless.
My interests outside of reading are: travel, though I prefer
having travelled as opposed to actual travelling, going to the
movies (comedy or action), watching tv (I avoid reality shows like
the plague), listening to music (country and top 40), and writing.
Beyond that I live in Colorado, have a very spoilt and pampered cat,
and - when I'm not working - I like to spend time with friends.
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Personal Reading Tastes |
What I'm a sucker for in a book:
Wounded heroes and sickbed
scenes, romantic suspense, witty heroines, wallflower/bookworm
heroines, overweight heroines, reunion stories (especially where one
character has been presumed dead), and English settings.
What I don't particularly care for in a book:
Historical
inaccuracies, wallpaper historicals, marriages of convenience,
characters forced together by a will, and books written from the
first-person point of view.
What drives me absolutely nuts in a book:
Immaculate
conceptions, heroines who are still virgins despite being married,
long separations, characters who hold a grudge the entire book, "I
love you, I hate you, I love you, let's have sex, I hate you, hate
you, hate you . .. oh, wait, I love you" stories, cruel heroes, TSTL
heroines, georgraphical errors, and whiny characters.
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Favorite Romance Authors |
Favorite Romance Authors
Nora Roberts
Suzanne Brockmann
Best Discovery/Buried Treasure Authors
Tracy Grant
Gayle Wilson
My Biggest Glom
Nora Roberts (I'm perpetually one book away from a complete set)
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Favorite Characters |
Favorite Hero
Grayson Thane, Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Roarke, The In Death Series by J.D. Robb
Jamie Fraser, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Favorite Heroine
Brianna Concannon, Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Marcie "Goosey" Johns, Texas Chase by Sandra Brown
Most Tortured Hero
Clayton Holland, Always to Remember by Lorraine
Heath
J.D. Damascus, Bad Moon Rising by Katherine Sutcliffe
Harry O'Dell, Bodyguard by Suzanne Brockmann
Strongest Heroine
Eve Dallas, The In Death Series by J.D. Robb
Favorite Couple
Eve Dallas and Roarke, The In Death Series by J.D.
Robb
Jamie Frasier and Claire Randall Fraser, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Best Villain
Phillip Bancroft, Paradise by Judith McNaught
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Least-Favorites |
Most Disappointing Book
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
Worst Book
Falling Home by Karen White
The Lover's Knot by Jana G. Oliver
The Cove by Catherine Coulter
Authors I Have Given Up On
Jude Deveraux
Sandra Brown
Author Others Love That I Don't
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Most Annoying Lead Character
Anita Blake, The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series by
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Favorite Romance Novels |
Absolute Favorites
Born in Ice
by Nora Roberts
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
Favorite Classics
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Favorite Short Story
My Darling Echo
by Gayle Wilson
in Brides by Arrangement
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Favorites by Time Period |
Contemporary:
Honest Illusions
by Nora Roberts
Texas Chase
by Sandra Brown
Paradise
by Judith McNaught
American Historical:
A Rogue in Texas
by Lorraine Heath
The Raider
by Jude Deveraux
European Historical:
Once and Always
by Judith McNaught
One Perfect Rose
by Mary Jo Putney
Daughter of the Game
by Tracy Grant
Regency:
Irish Rogue
by Emma Jensen
One Good Turn
by Carla Kelly
Medieval:
Kingdom of Dreams
by Judith McNaught
Velvet Angel
by Jude Deveraux
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Favorites by Plot Type |
Romantic Suspense:
Bodyguard
by Suzanne Brockmann
Sacred Sins
by Nora Roberts
Darkling I Listen
by Katherine Sutcliffe
Paranormal:
A Knight in Shining Armor
by Jude Deveraux
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
Bitten
by Kelley Armstrong
Funny:
Welcome to Temptation
by Jennifer Crusie
One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich
A Countess Below Stairs
by Eva Ibbotson
Sexy:
Welcome to Temptation
by Jennifer Crusie
The Seduction
by Julia Ross
Category:
Local Hero
by Nora Roberts
Prince Joe
by Suzanne Brockmann
A Man Like Mac
by Fay Robinson
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Favorites by Mood |
Comfort Reads:
The Tamarack Tree
by Patricia Clapp
The "Born In" Series
by Nora Roberts
Most-Hanky Reads:
Always to Remember
by Lorraine Heath
A Place to Call Home
by Deborah Smith
Guilty Pleasure:
Adam's Fall
by Sandra Brown
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