Hello ladies and gentlemen. My name is Sarah and I am a
bibliomaniac.
That’s right, I admit it. I’m hopelessly, desperately addicted to
books. Mostly it’s romances that eat my life, though I’ve been known to snap up
other kinds of books just as recklessly. Gay, straight or ménage, contemporary,
paranormal, science fiction, from vanilla to kink to “OMG, can they really say
that in print?” I love them all. When I’m not reading books I’m shopping for
books, or surfing the web looking at author websites or reviewer blogs, just in
case some wonderful new book should come to my attention. My addiction has been known to seriously get in
the way of my own writing (not to mention my sadly neglected housework.) No matter how sternly I tell myself that my
time would be better spent writing and promoting my own books instead of
reading someone else’s, the siren call of my Kindle still pulls me away and
devours my brain, along with the shreds of my self-discipline.
I used to be open about my
obsession, with paperback books scattered all over the house for my family to
trip over, box up, and complain about.
The advent of e-books has allowed me to take it underground and my addiction
now rages completely unchecked. I won’t go into exactly how many e-books I
currently have on my reader but suffice it to say that my husband has no
idea. Only Amazon knows for sure.
Whether due to Nature or Nurture,
I’ve managed to pass my obsession to at least one of my children. Shannen is nearly as addicted to reading as I
am, though at any given time her taste is a lot more eclectic and less focused
than mine has been of late. As hard as
it is to choose from among our vast shared library, we’re offering up some of
our favorites, in case you’d care to have a look. I hope you come to love them as much as we
do. Since I’m also a writer forever in
search of fans of my own, I’m going to help out my fellow authors by giving
you links to the author’s web page
wherever I can find it, and to the book on Amazon if I can’t find an author
site. Buy, read and enjoy.
Sarah’s top picks -in no particular order:
Claimings, Tails and Other Alien
Artifacts and the other two Liam and Ondry books by Lyn Gala (the series
doesn’t seem to have a name but I love all three books and I keep hoping for at
least one more.)
Almost anything written by “Gangsta
of Love” Sean Michael
Tell Me It’s Real – TJ Klune (rumor
has it there’s a sequel in the works. I so hope that’s true.)
Anything and everything ever written
by Mercedes Lackey
Shannen’s Favorites:
Serpent's Shadow - Mercedes Lackey- I also love pretty much every single things she's ever written.
- The seeds of inspiration for a tattoo I now have were planted by this book! When I love, I love hard.
- I laughed so hard I cried when I read this book. I stayed up all night reading it and woke up my partner laughing hysterically.
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