Hello, everyone! Once again, it’s Read Around the Rainbow time. I’ve been working to get back into the swing of doing more than just writing. I'm hoping to sneak onto social media more, post on my blog, and start emailing my reading group a little more often by including my rare Read Around the Rainbow posts. Speaking of, welcome to our new members! I have even gone so far as making a schedule! Ofelia Gränd would be so proud of me!
Since we last spoke, I have a few new things in the works, including organizing for the rerelease of a story that is reverting to me from the original publisher, with a second book in that series nearly complete. I’m also working on an upcoming box set for the 10th anniversary of another of my series. But I’ll let you know all about that in the coming weeks.
Now it’s Read Around the Rainbow time! (Typing that made me think of Reading Rainbow, which somehow led to me think of 3-2-1 Contact and then to The Bloodhouse Gang. I need more sleep!) Each month, the Read Around the Rainbow gang posts about the same subject on the last Friday of the month. This time around, we’re talking about Comfort Reads!
Oddly, I’ve never really thought about comfort reads until now. I might have even argued, I didn’t do them. But, after sitting down to really think about it, apparently I’m all about the comfort; I’d just never put that name to it.
In elementary school, I listened to the same Alice in Wonderland audiobook every night as I went to sleep. In middle school, high school, and college, I would watch the same cartoons every morning when I was getting ready for class. Whatever cartoon was showing in that time slot, I’d watch it every day, even repeats. I would actually feel edgy when they switched the schedule around, until I got used to whatever cartoon they’d put in its place.
When I was in my twenties, I started a business with two partners. I drew the short end of the straw and got stuck with closing the books every year to hand over to our accountant. And since then, for close to twenty years, I’ve watched the A&E Pride and Prejudice mini-series while doing it.
Why it’s only occurring to me now that it’s kind of the same thing, I’ll never know. Then, I just needed to apply that same logic to my reading habits. And sure enough, I do have comfort reads!
