Author suggestions

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Hi, my community. :)

I think I get pickier with age. I'm fairly particular about what I like to read now. I like it when books make me feel hopeful and inspired. I tend to prefer somewhat light-hearted stories with a female main character. It's nice when she's in her 30s like me, but I'm kind of flexible. I'm not really into high-school-aged main characters anymore, though (but there are exceptions when it's a unique situation--such as in Cinder). I like some romance, but I don't want it to be the entire topic--a little goes a long way with me. I like happyish endings. I don't mind an unlikely situation, but I don't want super cheesy lines and completely unrealistic reactions. Mysteries are fun sometimes.

Authors I've really enjoyed lately:

Mary Kay Andrews
Sophie Kinsella
Beth Harbison
Emily Giffin
Sarah Strohmeyer
Kristen Heitzmann
Rainbow Rowell
Lauren Weisberger

I'm currently reading one by Hester Browne, and it's pretty good so far.

Authors I've tried but am not really in the mood for, in case you're going to suggest them: Jennifer Weiner, Mary Stewart, Cecelia Ahern (actually I have never made it through a book of hers--so boring!), Elizabeth Peters, Elizabeth Adler, Dorothea Benton Frank.

I loooove audiobooks and don't put in a lot of time reading book-books, so I'm looking for suggestions of authors who have audio of some books available. I'm open to Christian and non, provided the Christian isn't totally corny, and the non isn't full of sex scenes.

So...have I been too specific, or do some of you have some ideas for me? :)

Comments

[mainemilyhoon.livejournal.com]

Dorothy Cannell's The Thin Woman mysteries are fun - they're mysteries but they're light and a bit goofy (in a good way)

The Thing About Jane Spring by Sharon Krum

I haven't read any but I've heard good things about Sarah Addison Allen and Marisa De Los Santos.

Madeleine Wickham is Sophie Kinsella, though her books under that name aren't quite as funny. And Hester Browne also writes as Lucy Dillon.

I think you might like Where'd You Go, Bernadette, too.

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I actually have read most/all(?) of Sarah Addison Allen's books. You will probably want to check her out! Although I think I liked her first books more than her more recent ones.

I tried a Wickham book and couldn't get into it. I know it's Sophie Kinsella but they seem to be a bit different. I love Sophie Kinsella except she seems to include a lot of cheating in her books, and that was a factor in whatever one I started under Wickham...I don't remember now. I didn't raelize Hester Browne was also Lucy Dillon--thanks!

I have What Alice Forgot on hold now. :D