I tired of the politics I was dealing with in self-publishing, so I took my book off the market. It can be read at http://myspiritualwindows.info/files/1601451288_content.pdf

or still Kindle through amazon, but I guarantee you have not quite had a energy read like it before, which was part of the problem. I lacked the comparison value.

Page turners.  The books that once picked up that dare you to put them down  more often than not are not best sellers in the usual sense.  And yet, they are timeless, with their words and their stories remaining with you long after the reluctantly finished that last page. 

As one who reviews books, I look far and wide.  But my tried-and-true source for the most rewarding fiction comes from looking at the web site of the Canadian bookseller McNally Robinson(www.McNallyRobinson.com).  I am sure you will be as impressed as I over the quality of selection and the number of books by English, Canadian, and Australian authors most often, who seem to ascribe to my sense and sensibilities, raising the bar in writing a bit further.

I could write a page, but I will, for now, suggest a single author, Kate Morton, whose two books are page-turners and then some.  In The House at Riverton she takes us back and forth over a century of aristocratic England as seen by a servant in the household, laying a hold on the reader with her beautiful use of language and story.  The Forgotten Garden, laid in England and Australia, again over decades, settles us into another time, another world that we will never see again.  Each is more than escapism for it gives a further understanding of what lay beneath the manners and the outward beauty of upper-class life in England at this earlier time.  To me, both are a "don’t miss".

I always like to have book recommendations. Somehow recommendations make it seem the book is really worth buying and burying my nose in for hours.

But sometimes I find that books I read decades ago are just as exciting.  I recently picked up a copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens….and before I knew it, I had finished it.  

My friends and I are all avid readers, but we do not read the same things.  One of the nice thing about books as well a music, there is something for everyone.

Recommendation: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Was marketed for young adults, I guess because main character is young girl,  and book club member recommended after glowing reports from her daughter.  I am looking forward to more books from this author.