As an author I always love to read, especially new authors. But time and time again I come back to my old favourites and luckily some of my favourite authors write trilogies which give me hours of glorious escapism. Best of all, about reading one of my old favourites, is the promise of knowing how much I’m going to enjoy the story a second (or third) time around, and if I’ve left a gap of a year or more since reading it I always discover new things to enjoy, too. I wonder why our brain is more receptive to some things on one read through, and others on the second. Do you think it’s because your brain automatically skims over the parts it knows, deep deep down in your subconscious, but actively responds to new reading stimulus in a book you already ‘know’? Or is it just that we speed/skim read sometimes and don’t give that first read the word by word attention it deserves?
My favourite return romance authors, my total comfort reads, are Linda Howard, Suzanne Brockmann and Nora Roberts. Who are yours?
Off the top of my head Suzanne Forster, Jill Shalvis, Vivki Lewis Thompson. There is also something about Diana Palmer books that keeps me wanting to read all her stuff too.
BTW I finished Rossellini’s Revenge Affair this morning. He kept me awake til 2 in the morning and woke me up again at 7. It was a wonderful read. I liked the fact that he didn’t keep throwing what he believed of her back in her face. Also I think it came through that he felt as if he was betraying his sister if he loved Lana. Now as I’m sitting here at the computer my eye keeps wandering to the cover again.
Comment by Christa — 30 May, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
Christa, I’m so happy you enjoyed the book! Y’know, I’ve framed all my covers to date and they hang on a wall behind my desk. Raffaele’s book, well, that one might be over my desk.
Hmm, yes, those authors you mentioned are wonderful wordsmiths, aren’t they? There’s just something special about the promise of picking up a book by an author you know and love and anticipating a satisfying read.
Comment by Yvonne Lindsay — 30 May, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
I guess you wouldn’t have room to enlarge it. HEEHEE
Comment by Christa — 31 May, 2007 @ 3:11 pm