There are some days I want to read something exciting and new, a new-to-me author or a book that's waiting patiently on my TBR pile. Then there are the times I need a comfort read.
Sometimes it's a seasonal thing. Colder weather and longer nights make me want to cocoon. Other times, I'm feeling a bit out of sorts or blue, and a comfort read helps me get back some equilibrium.
Even books I haven't read before can be comfort reads, just by virtue of the author. (I guess that would make them comfort authors?) A series I love has a new book out. I find a backlist title by a favorite writer. Latching onto the familiar and loved can be such a wonderful thing.
And then, when I've "treated" myself with a comfort read or five, I'm ready to dive back into the new and unexplored.
Do you have comfort reads/comfort authors? If so, share!
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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I don't reread books very often but, like you, my go-to authors are comfort reads because I know I will be cozy and happy reading them.
I take that first part back - the one time I do reread a book is if a sequel is coming out and I don't recall enough of the previous book. I'm doing that with Tad Williams' Bobby Dollar (urban fantasy - angels and demons) series. Loved The Dirty Streets of Heaven, had to wait over a year for the sequel. So no Happy Hour in Hell is out but I have to reread TDSOH - and I'm loving it all over again.
This was Miss Kate!
My go-to reread is always Jennifer Crusie and Rachel Gibson. They were some of my first romance books, and the stories + nostalgia is sometimes just so necessary.
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