HI! I’m Lyndsi 🙂
Here is my reading story.
I have considered myself a ‘reader’ since late elementary school. My favorites were Sweet Valley High, Bridge to Terabithia, and The Chronicles of Narnia. In high school I lost the bug, but found it briefly in college with Anne Rice. I found it again after my kids were born (they are 19 and 16 now). The books that hooked me this time were murder mysteries and romance, such as the In Death series, anything by Nora Roberts (loved her magical trilogies), Linda Howard, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, etc. These books got me through the newborn/toddler phases of motherhood. Once they got into preschool/early elementary, I discovered paranormal romance — Twilight, Karen Marie Moning, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, Sookie Stackhouse, etc. Parenting in the elementary/middle school years did not leave me much time for reading, but I drove a lot for work and thankfully discovered audiobooks! At first, I mainly stuck with nonfiction and memoir audiobooks. One of the first couple of fiction audiobooks I listened to were The Book Thief and A Man Called Ove and after that my audiobook world was blown open.
Now that my boys are driving and don’t need me as much, my main hobby is reading. I still enjoy a good paranormal romance and memoir, but also fantasy, contemporary romance, historical fiction, and young adult fantasy. My go to authors at this moment include: Sarah J Maas, Erin Morgenstern, VE Schwab, T.J. Kline, Nalini Singh, and my perennial favorite Nora Roberts.
One of my favorite things to do is listen to an audiobook while working on a puzzle. It is the perfect introvert activity! Sometimes the cat likes to ‘help’.
Some Favorite Quotes
“‘You could rattle the stars,’ she whispered. ‘You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.’”
Sarah J Maas, Throne of Glass
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them. ‘I would like to look at you’ seems like such an awkward request.”
Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
