Oh I do love books and am so grateful for the worlds they transport me to, the new ways of thinking, the lives I immerse myself in. I have a number of books that are standouts. I’ve mentioned them in recent posts, but I’ll share a few more.
As a kid I loved Stephen King’s The Eyes of the Dragon and Devil on My Back by Monica Hughes. As a teenager and early 20-something, Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux’s romance novels were IT, particularly Judith McNaught’s Perfect and Jude Deveraux’s Knight in Shining Armor. Perennial favorites include Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
I love romance novels because of the guaranteed happy endings. Things I would eschew in a film, I can more easily read like Thomas Harris’ treatment of Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. I don’t think I’ve read the fourth one…maybe later…
I’ve found in recent years it’s easier for me to read novels on the Libby app on my phone and have accomplished maybe close to 22 (plus or minus two) this year. I think it counts. đŸ™‚ Regardless, I’m thankful for books and the portals to new dimensions they take me to.
Feryl Files 
I just checked my Goodreads list & I’ve read 42 books this year! This includes audiobooks which absolutely count to me. I had forgotten about Jude Deveraux! She was one of my favorites. I like Barbara Michaels & Barbara Delinsky too. And Nora Roberts – I’m reading book one of her latest trilogy now because book 2 came out this week & I have no memory of what happened in the first one. Ha!
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