So, I was scanning the list of bestsellers today and realized I really haven’t read many of them. And I don’t even mean the books - I mean anything by the authors.
Who I have read: Rebecca Wells (read the original Ya Yas book), John Grisham (who hasn’t?), Mary Higgins Clark (a few), Iris Johansen (LOVED her romances, her romantic suspense are great, but I’m just not much of a RS person), Sue Grafton (used to be a real follower of the series, but got lost somewhere along the way.), Jonathan Kellerman (read everything he wrote up to a couple years ago, excellent author), Jane Feather (loved her earlier romances, have a couple more recent ones on my TBR stack), Amanda Quick (again someone I used to read), Catherine Coulter (another romance author who moved to RS and I didn’t follow. But this woman has a major talent for transporting you to another world. wow), Julie Garwood (again haven’t read anything recently, but used to read everything), Christina Dodd (I see a pattern…used to read…), Shannon Drake (won’t even say it…), Nevada Barr (excellent writer, my mother loves her, even went to see her at a book signing, but just not my cup of tea). And that’s it. Jonathon Kellerman, Sue Grafton and Jane Feather are probably the only ones I’ve read in two years. Why is that?
hmmm. A lot of the romance authors moved on without me, but the others? Who knows? Maybe I am just strange. Now I seem to read books like I used to listen to music. You know how some people are FANS major killer fans for one or two groups and know everything about them? I was always moving on to something else. I had some favorite albums, but I didn’t search out everything they did.
Now I used to search out backlist for many of these authors, but I don’t seem to do that anymore. There is always somebody new to try. Not to say I don’t buy more than one book written by the same author. I do. But it isn’t with the intensity I used to have. Why is that?
Anyway, how ’bout you? Do you follow a few authors with intensity or read a wide variety? How many bestsellers do you read? You might notice a couple of really big names are missing from my list - no reason, just haven’t felt the burning desire to pick up the books.
