Bookish

Winter came blustering in overnight. Yesterday afternoon the temperature was in the low 60's. This morning there is maybe an inch of snow on the ground and the temperature is in the 20's. A few more snow showers may pass through today, but tonight we should see something more significant and the temperature will drop even further. Tomorrow morning should find us with temperatures in the teens and windchills in single digits. Not as bad as some of you are having it, I know, but it's plenty of winter for me!

It's my day off and I have a ton of stuff needing done around here, but I'd hoped to join in the Tuesday 4 first. However, the Tuesday 4 seems to be taking some time off...just like some other memes this week. Not to be put off, I scoured the internet (okay, I just did a quick Google search) and found a couple of questions that might prove to be fun.

1. What are your favorite genres of books?  

I enjoy cozy mysteries...the ones where the people seem like your next door neighbors and you get to know the characters and their community. They are more fun than mysterious or spooky.

I also like what I guess you'd call action/adventures...things along the lines of Indiana Jones. Sort of.

Then there are the rather technical and detailed thrillers.

I also like books with funny women as the main character, but I'm not sure what genre they are.

Lately I've been on more of a literary kick and reading a lot of novels...just good writing and deep examinations of human nature.

Okay, I also admit to liking some romances. Mainly the ones set in the present with smart, strong, but likeable women. I don't like historical romance or the ones with swooning women or the ones with explicit sex scenes.

2. If you hosted a dinner for authors, who are the six authors you'd invite (living or dead)?

James Rollins because of all he knows about weird science. 

Janet Evanovich because anyone who can invent Stephanie Plum and all the folks who populate her world has got to be really funny.

Ernest Hemingway because he has always fascinated me and I would love to hear about his adventures and what the Keys and Cuba were like in his time.

Louisa May Alcott because she wrote Little Women, my most favorite book ever.

Mark Twain because, like Hemingway, he'd have some pretty amazing stories to tell.

Harper Lee because I'd like to hear from the mind that created To Kill a Mockingbird.


Those are my choices. It was really hard to decide on the authors. What are your choices?