In today’s busy world it can be hard to find time to sit down with a good book, wrapped in a cosy blanket and sipping on a hot chocolate – or a glass of wine, whatever fills your soul!
The trick is in making sure we create the time, prioritise the need to read over the many competing chores or activities so that getting back into reading doesn’t seem like yet another chore! A good book should never be hard work.
Since a child, I have been a voracious reader, always finding the time for one of my life’s loves – escaping in a fabulous book.
That feel of the paper between your hands, the smell of a bookstore or library brimming with tales of adventure, love, heartache and victory.
Ever evolving technology means reading a book can be so much more accessible now – with audible books that can even be read to you! This makes it even easier for you to reconnect and make the time to get into and listening to a new adventure or a grand love story for the ages.
Perfect if you’re on the move somewhere that you can still listen in – out for a walk or your daily commute maybe?
Personally, I enjoy reading different styles of story, thrillers that keep you gripped to the pages, a light and fluffy romance, perfect when you just want to get lost in a sweet story. Or often as a youth, a fantasy. A whole new word created by a writer’s imagination, how brilliant to shape a whole world and make it so believable that magic and dragons can exist.
Through the years I’ve shifted my genres as my interest sparks or perhaps reflective of those different stages in life, who knows what drivers it, but I like not being stuck on the one thing – variety is the spice of life they say!
One author who gives me all this and more is Nora Roberts, sometimes writing as J.D. Robb, with her fabulously hard-hitting character Eve Dallas, or the ethereal characters built into various series that create a world of magic, mystery and love.
Right now, I am absorbed in Nora’s latest thriller – Identity.
Facing the increasing real-world problem of identity theft, Morgan Albright is left broken after losing her friend and dreams for the future. Returning to her family she gets out of the funk and is starting to make plans – but I am pretty sure her antagonist is not done with her yet!
If you want to try getting back into reading with audible books, you can find Identity here on Amazon.
I can’t wait to finish and find out just how far one man goes to take Morgan’s identity, and possibly her life!
Happy listening. (Or reading if you prefer to go the old fashion way – and don’t forget that glass of wine!)