Booking Through Thursday… A Little Late
Hello and welcome once more to Booking Through Thursday. Once more we have a question about books to think about. The question for last week (due to the site being down)…
Think about your favorite authors, your favorite books . . . what is it about them that makes you love them above all the other authors you’ve read? The stories? The characters? The way they appear to relish the taste of words on the tongue? The way they’re unafraid to show the nitty-gritty of life? How they sweep you off to a new, distant place? What is it about those books and authors that makes them resonate with you in ways that other, perfectly good books and authors do not?
One big thing that gets me on an author’s fan list is the characters and their relationships. Well done characters can have you sympathizing with them or hating them faster than you can blink and you don’t even know it. What they do, say and think are things I want to know and enjoy reading.
A good author also doesn’t let their writing overwhelm the story. The story always takes the main role and the writing just gets you to wherever the story is going. I don’t like it when authors get so caught up in the fact that they are writing that the story becomes secondary.
My favourite authors have a wonderful ability to take me to places that are familiar enough to give me a bit of footing but different enough to make me want to explore all the wonderful spaces the new world holds.
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