JULY 18th : Best Book Ever & A List of Things You Like

BEST BOOK EVER....

Seriously?

Like.......   SERIOUSLY???

How can you even ASK ME THAT????

GGAHHHHHHHHHH  that is a horrible horrible questions....

 I do NOT have a favorite book ....  I do have favorite BOOKS ...... like .... first and foremost ...

This....... ^^^^ .... yes, all kinds of that .... I love Harry Potter!  💙💚💜 Always ...

BUT .... I can't say those are my favorite books.  I also read Twilight - YES Twilight, and people will hands down go "OMG THOSE WERE AWFUL!" ... nah - they weren't.  I read the last book in like... 24/48 hours.  I couldn't stop.  I liked them a lot....  but I'm not sure they'd make it in the top ten because there are about 200 books I'd put up on the top ten and no be able to decide....  because ...  I do not have favorite books, I have a favorite author.

I haven't met a Nora Roberts book I don't love .... A couple I have had a hard time leaving my chaotic life to get into, but once I do .... LOL

I have a million favorites!!!   Like Sanctuary (loved that the Lifetime movie version was done with Melissa Gilbert because I adore her), Montana Sky was a favorite...  The Collector, a more recent on, amazing!!  The Liar was also amazing!!  I didn't think I'd like the Chesapeake Bay series because it was mostly from a male point of view.... and it was like ...  I don't know why I doubted that I would love it - because I did ....

I love the Wild Ukrainians .... The Concannon Sisters .... The Gallaghers of Ardomore ...  The Bride Quartet ... The O'Dwyer Trilogy ... the Boonsboro Inn series ... I LOVE THEM ALL ....

BUT ...... there is one series that holds a really special place in my heart because it was the reason I got into Nora Roberts in the first place....

I mean, seriously .... I remember vividly ...  my first Nora Roberts book....ever....

It's because I was in high school at the time.  I was dead set against reading "smut" books.  Smut books = romance books.  Sex scenes make me uncomfortable... LOL....  I was one of those girls that wouldn't change in the locker room.  I'm deep down a huge prude.   I mean, deep down there is a big prude in me... lol

When I don't want to do something - I will beat it to death ...  LOL ...

Like....  Fifty Shades of Grey ...  I mean... did you see the part about the old lady prude that lives inside me.... S&M ... no thank you - not my deal....  and then the AMOUNT of S&M that I've heard about .... AND hearing they were poorly written ...  I was just like.... all kinds of NO.  So the first movie comes out and I'm like...... ZERO INTEREST ....  the second movie comes out and I'm like.... oh shit, interest is slightly peaked.... the third movie comes out and she's all "I'm pregnant" ... and I'm all like..... WHAT?  Okay I might want to watch this. 

Then *J* and I make an agreement.  She reads the book I'm writing right now, and I'll watch the movies.  I kept waiting for her to read, and it wasn't happening.  So I ended up just watching the movies in hopes it would get her to read ....

............. nope.  She's coming up with excuses!  (Yep, that's right *J* you are and you know it! LOL) ...   and I watched all three movies in ONE NIGHT.

............. yes, ONE NIGHT ...... I loved them.  I even want to watch them again ......  yep.  It's crazy.

SO ........... back to the smut books....

So in my hometown we had a used bookstore downtown called The Book Peddler.  It was literally my favorite place to be.  I'd go in there and sit and look at books forrrrrever.

One day I was there with one of my friends ... she wanted to look for some romance novels.  With an exasperated sigh I went over to that section with her and I sat on the floor while she looked.  I got bored and I started to pull out books and make fun of the creepy covers of the guys with Fabio hair....

I mean, people actually LIKE being with guys with long hair?  Okay - I admit some guys can pull it off - but ..... just so not my cup of tea.  At. All.

Well on one of those rounds of pulling out a book, I pulled out this book....

Although her intriguing new neighbor, Boone Sawyer, writes fairy tales, Anastasia Donovan fears that he will not easily accept her healing powers, so she keeps them to herself; but when an accident puts a life at stake, she must decide whether to act--and reveal the secret

I was ....  interested.  I'm like..... she's a witch?  TOTALLY hooked.   I bought it...

I read it.

Realized it was a series and had to get the other two books....

So I read book #3 first.  I went back, I read Captivated first, then Entranced, and then re-read Charmed.  I was absolutely HOOKED.  

Then 7 years later she added a 4th book to the Donovan Legacy ... 

So that whole series holds a HUGE part of my heart because that is what got me hooked on Nora Roberts!  She is pretty much ALL I read lately, because I hadn't found the time to read a lot, and when I do start reading, I end up having to put it down for whatever reason... I've been working on the same book... right now .... for over a year now.  It's sad.  Really - really sad.  My Goodreads app is very very neglected ....

Incase you were unaware, Nora also writes under the name of J.D. Robb ...  it's one giant series of books - the whole J.D. Robb set ... set in the future, following a homicide detective named Eve Dallas who has some pretty deep skeletons in her closet ...  I didn't think I'd like it - because I don't like a lot of Sci-Fi stuff ... but I looooove the series.  It's not too far out there with the futuristic stuff.  The stuff that is not our "norm" is easy to accept and logical ...

A LIST OF THINGS YOU LIKE

*this is going to be a LONG list*  I'll keep it to those things I can't seem to pass up ....  that I sit there and if someone goes "we'd like gift ideas for you" ... I would send them this list....

* BOOKS & anything Book Lover related stuff
* CANDLES
* PENS
* MOON & STARS
* MUGS (I drink Coco not coffee)
* the colors PURPLES, Blues & lime green
* the number 13
* Boys Mom stuff
* Bears, Ladybugs, Dragonflies, Turtles...
* Beauty & The Beast
* Pajamas
* Super Soft Blankets
* Cameras (and photography lover related stuff)
* Writer related stuff
* Keep Calm and ....
* Anything to do with my Fandom and all the amazing universes I love, like:  Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Gilmore Girls, X-Files, Castle, Sherlock, Supernatural, Game of Thrones, Pokemon Go...  etc and so on...
* Halloween is my favorite holiday followed by Christmas ...

I could go on and on and on.....

But I'll stop there....