Delicious Desserts?

I absolutely love Anna Quindlen - I fell in love with her when I read Black and Blue. Nancy Horan and my very favorite book ever Loving Frank (her 2nd book just released and I have yet to add it to my collection).  Karen White - I got hooked on her books with Learning to Breathe. Cathy Lamb - her titles always grab my attention but, I've only read one of her books and I don't know why that is.  I need to change that!  Patti Callahan Henry who is my absolutely, fall on my face, die hard FAVORITE author - and, Elin Hilderbrand who takes me back to Nantucket when I need my beach fix, Kristen Hannah who writes a good story with just enough steam and not push it over the edge to smut,  and even Danielle Steele who I've recently found my way back to - but, but, I have to say -  in my mind, no book of hers will ever be as good as Accident.  These women are what I love to read.  They make me want to buy more books and more books and more books and read them all in one sitting!

I do also love James Patterson, when he gets a little romance-y - like his latest, First Love.  I'm looking forward to sinking my eyes into that book!  I just ordered the Kindle edition this afternoon.

I looked at my shelf, stacked full of books in my bedroom this morning and I wonder, will I ever read them all?  What if I get bored with this one, or that one?  I wonder which ones I'll love, which ones I'll close after a few chapters and send to the library to begin the recycling of the awful book.

I looked at my book wish list today in an attempt to justify spending $20 on both Anna Quindlen's and Nancy Horan's latest but, how could I order those and not Elin Hilderbrand's?  How could I choose?  I didn't.  I closed the browser with hopes of coming back next week.  Maybe I'll be ready to make the choice.

I have a lot of books on my Kindle that sounded good at one time and now they're passed over for others I want to read first.  Some I'll keep.  Some I'll delete. Some times it's the biggest decision I can make.  Do I invest my time in this book or that book?  Which book?

I often wonder, if I were to stick only with the authors my heart adores, will I have enough books to read?  Most of my favorites release a new book every summer and that would likely keep me busy for some time if you include, going back and catching up with their older books too.  Yet, I can't help but ask if there is yet another author I'd love as much to add to my collection and then where would this end?

But...if I stick with only what I love, how will I find new authors to love?  I mean...I took a chance on Anna Quindlen, she's new to me.  It was a blind shot when I landed my first Patti Callahan Henry and still, not many of my reading friends have heard of let alone read her.

If I stuck with what I knew, I would have missed some great stories of the Haulocaust and slavery, I never would have met up with historical fiction - which is my new favorite genre.

What to do?  I think, I think I'll keep plugging along, reading my favorites spread out here and there, like a reward for trudging through my not-so-favorites, if only to get me through to the delicious desserts.