...and a book walked in!

Do books find you?

or

Do you find books?

I ask, because sometimes I will pick up a highly recommended 

book and no matter how I try I can't get into it

Three months later I try again and can't put it down!!

Go figure

Sometimes I have a craving for suspense

sometimes soppy romance

sometimes something historical

sometimes an old classic is all that will do 

but whatever I choose there is

one absolute criteria

It always has to be well written

*****

Whilst we have had a wonderful time with our UK daughter

it has been a sad few weeks here and

I desperately wanted something light and breezy to read

Now doesn't this cover just scream

Chick lit?

Well it did to me

 so I grabbed it and raced home.

Chick lit

it is not

Beautifully and magically written

 it is

Light and breezy

it is not

A book to bury yourself in

it is

But sad and funny and uplifting as it is

it turns out it was just the book I needed

When I finished

I was so entranced with this authors writing

 that I went searching for anything else she had written

and found

this

I wish I had read it first

 as the characters are the same

and Belong to Me follows on a few years later

But had I picked it up first

would it have been the book I needed now?

I don't think so.

I can only say if you haven't read either of these

 do yourself a favour and get them

 but it might help to read in the right order

Goodnight