My all time fave author since I was 13 until now even in my 70's is Mary Stewart. She wrote gothic suspense set in all the countries/cities in Europe. My very fave is THIS ROUGH MAGIC set on the island of Corfu. (I actually got to visit there last year on a cruise - it was wonderful). More well known of hers because a movie was made is Moonspiners. I also loved My Brother Michael, Nine Coaches Waiting, Madam, Will You Talk, and Airs Above The Ground. I have all theses and more in paperback and reread them every several years. Some are in audiobooks as well, and I've listened to all of them that are.
Oh thanks for the reminder. Mary Stewart's books were right up there with Heyer, and was really the only Mystery/suspense I read before I discovered the Golden Age writers and the new crop of female protagonists started popping up with Grafton. And yes, I have probably reread her books nearly every year for years.
I tend not to reread books but when I discover an author I enjoy reading I want to read everything they've published. A couple of years ago I read a book that turned out to be part of a five-book series so I read them all. I eagerly waited for the promised sixth and was so disappointed when it came out to unfavourable reviews. I still bought it but the reviews were right. I have reread the classics from time to time, like Dickens and Anthony Trollope (The Barchester Chronicles). It's comforting to be back in a world you know and enjoy.
I regularly reread all of Kerry Greenwood's work, not just the Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman series. I just reread the Murderbot Diaries since I'm about to start the new one. Clifford Simak is another I happily return to. David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin hold up well to return visits. Oh yes, there's this series about a young woman named Annie Dawson, who runs a boarding house in Victorian San Francisco that's due for a read...
I am getting such good suggestions for new authors, so little time. I have enjoyed the Pharynx Fisher tv shows, but had never heard of the Murderbot diaries which sounds fascinating.
I think you might really enjoy Murderbot! It's not what you might expect, and there are subtleties that I suspect you would notice and like. Martha Wells is the author, and the first one is All Systems Red. Best read in order, and there are also audio books.
Oh, the TV version of Phryne...let's just say they watered down the books to the point where about the only relation to the books are the characters' names and some titles. Just one example - Phryne, who ran away to be an ambulance driver on the Western Front at age 16, who shoots trench raiders to protect her casualties, becomes, on TV, a caricature of a 1950s cartoon housewife when she sees a spider. Kerry's characters deserved better.
I have never liked to re-read books. Probably because my reading list has always been long. The exception has been in listening to your books after having read them. Even with the stories already known, listening to the audiobooks deepens my experience. I'm finding that my imagination gets more actively involved while listening, especially while listening to your sci-fi series. Now those I will listen to again.
My all time fave author since I was 13 until now even in my 70's is Mary Stewart. She wrote gothic suspense set in all the countries/cities in Europe. My very fave is THIS ROUGH MAGIC set on the island of Corfu. (I actually got to visit there last year on a cruise - it was wonderful). More well known of hers because a movie was made is Moonspiners. I also loved My Brother Michael, Nine Coaches Waiting, Madam, Will You Talk, and Airs Above The Ground. I have all theses and more in paperback and reread them every several years. Some are in audiobooks as well, and I've listened to all of them that are.
Oh thanks for the reminder. Mary Stewart's books were right up there with Heyer, and was really the only Mystery/suspense I read before I discovered the Golden Age writers and the new crop of female protagonists started popping up with Grafton. And yes, I have probably reread her books nearly every year for years.
I tend not to reread books but when I discover an author I enjoy reading I want to read everything they've published. A couple of years ago I read a book that turned out to be part of a five-book series so I read them all. I eagerly waited for the promised sixth and was so disappointed when it came out to unfavourable reviews. I still bought it but the reviews were right. I have reread the classics from time to time, like Dickens and Anthony Trollope (The Barchester Chronicles). It's comforting to be back in a world you know and enjoy.
I would add Dorothy Dunnett!
And Pamela Dean!
I regularly reread all of Kerry Greenwood's work, not just the Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman series. I just reread the Murderbot Diaries since I'm about to start the new one. Clifford Simak is another I happily return to. David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin hold up well to return visits. Oh yes, there's this series about a young woman named Annie Dawson, who runs a boarding house in Victorian San Francisco that's due for a read...
I am getting such good suggestions for new authors, so little time. I have enjoyed the Pharynx Fisher tv shows, but had never heard of the Murderbot diaries which sounds fascinating.
I think you might really enjoy Murderbot! It's not what you might expect, and there are subtleties that I suspect you would notice and like. Martha Wells is the author, and the first one is All Systems Red. Best read in order, and there are also audio books.
Oh, the TV version of Phryne...let's just say they watered down the books to the point where about the only relation to the books are the characters' names and some titles. Just one example - Phryne, who ran away to be an ambulance driver on the Western Front at age 16, who shoots trench raiders to protect her casualties, becomes, on TV, a caricature of a 1950s cartoon housewife when she sees a spider. Kerry's characters deserved better.
I have never liked to re-read books. Probably because my reading list has always been long. The exception has been in listening to your books after having read them. Even with the stories already known, listening to the audiobooks deepens my experience. I'm finding that my imagination gets more actively involved while listening, especially while listening to your sci-fi series. Now those I will listen to again.
That pleases me no end! Thanks for sharing.