Whether it be romance, sci-fi/fantasy with romantic subplots or mainstream fiction, I enjoy reading a good book. Honestly, who doesn’t? Covers draw me in; back cover blurbs hook me. When I read, I want two things:
1. A good story or plot
2. An escape
There, I said it. An escape.
I read to get away from the mountain of clothes in my laundry room, the dust bunnies chasing the cat on both floors of my home, the endless quotes from Nick Jr. flowing from my toddler’s mouth, the fact that I have 500 channels and nothing on.
I don’t need Calgon to take me away, just a good book.
Take today for instance. My toddler woke up with a raging fever. What did I do? Camped out beside him with a book (The Wilde Women, if you’re curious). I’d ask him if he was going to be sick; he’d tell me no and to keep reading my book.
I cannot write without total silence. I cannot carry on a decent conversation if the television is on. Give me a good book, however, I can read it in the middle of a parade, trumpets blaring, drums booming.
Since I finished The Wilde Women, my only problem is what to read next. Who cares about that dirty laundry.
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Yep! Couldn’t agree more! That’s why I don’t read YA- I have a house full of teenagers I’m trying to escape from. And I read very few non-paranormal, straight contemporaries because they seldom allow me to escape far enough from real life. And it IS all about escape into a little “mind vacation”, isn’t it?
LMAO! That is soooo me too. But I take it a step farther with audio books since they allow me to “read” even when I can’t read.
Yep, count me in on the vote for escape.
But I’d trade the good plot
for good characters.
Give me a couple interesting characters
and I’ll happily “listen” to them
discuss the weather.
I always have at least one book with me. I too could read in the middle of a parade. Who wants to do laundry when you can escape into a book and forget about it? Hope your son feels better soon.
Flood books. That’s what my friends up in the Texas Panhandle called the books they carried around with them in purse or car. Because in that part of the country, it doesn’t rain real often, so if you live out in the country, usually your road home includes at least one low-water crossing. (San Antonio is full of them.) A place where you can cross when the gully is dry (as it usually is), but if it’s come a gully washer, you have to wait till the water goes down. Usually just a matter of an hour or two. And it’s helpful to have a book to read while you wait out the flash flood.
I try always to have at least one flood book. (I have to replace them–pretty much every day.) I can lose myself in a book at a blink. Historical, contemporary, science fiction or fantasy–with romance or not–the genre doesn’t really matter (though if it’s romantic suspense, it shouldn’t be too scary because I’m a wimp)–the story just has to be compelling.
Yeah. Books. It’s an addiction. One I’m not particularly interested in kicking…
Give me escape too. My husband gets so irritated because all of four of my children and myself can read without hearing anything. He speaks and no one answers!
Gail, I love the “flood books” designation. But not every genre will do for me, no matter how good the writing or compelling the story. Not in every circumstance.
I just got back into town after nursing two adult kids through surgeries. I’d saved the new Nora Roberts to get me through the waiting period at the hospital and packed a Susan Andersen from my TBR pile to lull me to sleep.
This week, I needed the romance promise that everything was going to work out right.