Comments on: Comfort reads & stress

By: Kate Douglas

Kate Douglas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:48:53 +0000

Thanks, Gina! My list is growing, and Mo, I know that you and I read a lot of the same authors, but you’ve also listed some I haven’t read. I need to expand my reading more!!!

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:58:40 +0000

Hey Kate, don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have the escape of checking out the fascinating minds of the authors and their books that I have read. I have ones that I go back to over and over again and series that I just have to continue reading and so on. I love everything that Jory Strong writes, Her Angelini, Fallon Mates, Supernatural series and others are something you can’t put down. J.L. Langley’s With/Without Series (she has others I’ve got but that series is my favorite, Shelly Laurenston’s Mane Series & Pack series. Almost Human by Cat Marsters. Lorelei James’ Cowboy Series is great for a wonderful change. Some of the books that I read over and over are, your Wolf Tales, Elizabeth Amber’s Nicholas, J.L.’s With Caution and Camille’s books (which you’ve read already) to name a few.

Hope that helps. I looked on the sidebar of the many authors of this blog site and noted how many of these books I have already and know that I am in good company. ;> D Mo

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:26:44 +0000

I love Lauren Dane, Megan Hart, Maya Banks and a bunch of others. Of Lauren’s books I loved the Chase Books. They were great. Get them all at the same time and read one right after another. The other great books to read in order are from Sahsa White. I’m not sure of the order but the books are My Prerogative, Wicked, Bound and Trouble. I know she is part of this group with you, so I’m sure if you asked her she could tell you the proper reading order.

By: Kate Douglas

Kate Douglas — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:31:54 +0000

Wow, none of those are on my shelves! Maybe I need to expand my horizons a bit! Thank you, and thanks for coming by.

By: Little Lamb Lost

Little Lamb Lost — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:19:42 +0000

I see that many titles and authors I enjoy have already been listed. Some of my comfort reads that are not from Aphrodisia and I don’t think have been mentioned (in no particular order):

Escapade by Joan Smith
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
CL Wilson
Louisa Burton
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper
Shannon Greenland (romances, have not tried her YA)
Sherry Thomas (for the elegance of her writing, though must be in the mood for emotional roller coaster)
Shana Abe’s Drakon books
Denise Rossetti’s Phoenix Rising series

By: Kate Douglas

Kate Douglas — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:55:55 +0000

Jan–I SAW a Hawaiian cockroach–it was scary! The thing was as big as a hummingbird…nasty creature. I usually don’t have a problem with bugs, but they’re just gross!!!

Caffey, I read some historicals, but it depends on the author. Amanda Quick and Sharon Page come to mind, but generally I either like paranormals or contemporary romance. Just picked up Susan Wiggs JUST BREATHE and going to read it tonight. I’ve never read anything of hers that I can think of, so I’m really looking forward to it.

I actually don’t read a lot of Aphrodisia titles–Sharon’s, obviously, and Devyn Quinn and Elizabeth Amber, and the other authors in anthologies with me, but I try not to read too much within the genre I write so I don’t pick up on another author’s voice.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
kate

By: Caffey

Caffey — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:08:54 +0000

I love your shelves Kate! I love re-reading too! But so love to read new to me authors and I’ve found some keepers that way too! I’m thinking you probably read alot of the Aphrodisia books like Sharon Page’s vamps and anyone here!

Jeaniene Frost – HALFWAY TO THE GRAVE is the first in her series. Bones (thats the hero’s name) and Cat are so hot together! One’s a vamp and another is a vamp hunter! Go for these!

Lorie O’Clare – TALL, DARK AND DEADLY. First in her sizzling RS

Shannon McKenna – all hers are a go! Start with BEHIND CLOSED DOORS for the first in the McCloud Brothers. Sizzling RS too

Deborah Cooke – KISS OF FIRE, first in Pyr Shape-shifting Dragon series! Yum!

Lyndsay Sands – A QUICK BITE is first in the Argeneau and Rogue Series

Carolyn Jewel – MY WICKED ENEMY – First in a series with a witch and a demon!

I could recommend lots of historicals but do you read them? I wasn’t sure by what I read here if you read that genre?

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:08:43 +0000

Yup, the darn gecko poop is a problem along iwth the huge B-52 bombers as we lovingly call are huge roaches which are very scary.

And since I live in the valley, dust is ever present. Sigh.

My dream would be to have a home…

Just for my books!

By: Kate Douglas

Kate Douglas — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:56:18 +0000

Jan, I have to admit that if I didn’t have an unusually large office in this house, I’d be in real trouble trying to store all my books, so guess the bins are the next best thing to shelves. Plus, they probably don’t get dusty like mine do! (or, since you’re on Oahu, get gecko poop on them…)

Christina, I haven’t read Dune in ages, but it’s on my shelf! Hard to get much farther away!!!

By: Christina Crooks

Christina Crooks — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:30:22 +0000

“Dune,” by Frank Herbert. Takes me far, faaaarrr away.