Mom’s Romance Reads for Mother’s Day
With mother’s day just around the bend, I decided it would be appropriate to pick the brain of the woman who inspired my lifelong reading habit. Now, my mother is your typical geek. Lover of all things star trek, forensic science, and murder mystery. She was very disappointed when all of her three children became “artsy-fartsy” like our father. Yet, for some reason, as far back as I can remember, every shelf and corner and general flat surface in my parents’ home has been overflowing with romance novels. Specifically, historical romance novels. So today, in honor of mom, I decided to wake her up from her day-off nap to bombard her with some questions and get her reading recommendations.
The Interview
When I say “interview” it was really more of me rattling off questions to my mom and forcing her to scroll through her kindle and give me names. That said, I did find out a few interesting tid-bits:
When did you start reading romances?
Way back when, as a young teenager, about twelve or thirteen.
What drew you to them/what do you like about them?
I like happy endings. With romances it always goes back and forth, there are good times, hard times, adventure, they break up, but in the end (at least in the ones I like) everything turns out well.
Paper or eReader?
Paper, but I swapped to electronic because I ran out of space. I don’t like to get rid of books, I won’t throw them out, and always think ‘maybe I’ll go back and read it again’. So I read ebooks out of necessity, but I don’t prefer it.
Any idea how many books you have?
I don’t know, but venture to say they number in the hundreds. *author note: at the very least! Seriously! every nook and cranny! since I was a kid!
“I detest a book that does not have an epilogue.”
~mom
Mom’s Top Picks
Probably top on my mom’s favorite author list, this was Mom’s most recent read. She’s been a fan of the Cynster series from way back. She says she likes series because you get to find out what happened to the characters and continue their story.
It’s all about the Dukes, right? My mom’s preference is regency era England, like so many other romance readers out there, I don’t know what it is about a country that gets so much rain… maybe just the accent?
This author combines a couple of my mom’s favorites: historical and paranormal. Yes, that’s a thing. Remember my review of Meara Platt’s regency dragon series?Anywho, in this case it’s witches and wolves. I stole a few of these out of my mom’s collection from time to time, definitely fun and worth a look.
I hadn’t heard of this author yet, but she must be on my mom’s current most read list because her name came up pretty fast in conversation. I might have to take a look.
And there you have if folks, sage info and recommendations from this Author’s favorite mother ever!
To all the moms out there: Happy Mother’s Day!
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