Love Sue Grafton E! Though I haven’t read X yet. I struggled through LoTR and I know for a fact that if I’d put anything that wordy in front of any editor I’ve had it would have come back more red than black. But there you go it’s horses for courses isn’t it and fortunately there are readers out there for everything written, pretty much. I have just realised that today is the big day for you 🙂 Congratulations and I hope it has gone very well. My copy will be waiting for me when I next manage to get to my kindle and I shall look forward to reading Second Rainbow just as soon as I can 🙂 May all your sales be big ones E!!

Haha! So true Carol, we pick up such a lot from what we read and what you say about Dickens and Wuthering Heights just shows that books live their own quiet lives and some take decades to be fully appreciated. I find I read all books differently now I have my own out there as well. Thanks for popping in and adding your wisdom to the comments 🙂

Thanks for reading and commenting Cathy and it doesn’t surprise me that you read what you want to read as I am very familiar with your blog! I’m glad you said that about reading books meant for younger people as well. I’m always delighted to see The Very Hungry Caterpillar makes it onto many a ‘must-read’ list and love browsing the children’s section of the bookshop for my nieces and nephews 🙂

I totally agree with what you say here Terry and I would add that I hadn’t even realised I’d only been reading indie books, until it was pointed out to me. I shall be making a determined effort to read more from across the board in future. You’re quite right about the reviews as well, but that’s just down to my lack of confidence. Many thanks for commenting 🙂

I neither know nor care what the ‘must reads’ are, by anyone’s standards, because I’ve only ever read what I want to. I didn’t enjoy LOTR much either; I don’t think I even finished it, but that might be because I don’t like fantasy epics! It’s not silly to review trad pubbed or classics – reviews are for readers, book recommendations, or not, if you like. Books are books – which is why I don’t like to differentiate by only including the ‘indie pub’ in my quarterly top tens on my book review blogs, or my end of year top twenties. To draw a line between the two means maintaining the gap between them, encouraging snobbery, inverted and otherwise. The only way that the self-published can achieve true recognition is to allow themselves to be judged by the same standards as the best of the best, whether that ‘best’ is DIY, small press or traditionally published.

I really can’t get into Shakespeare anymore, probably because I did so much of it at school. I have shelves of traditionally published books waiting for me to get to them and am determined to manage a few more this year as there are some great thrillers on there but I agree with you Heather, read what you want to read. Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂

Thanks for commenting E and you’re quite right of course there are so many different reasons for reading and right now it is my relaxing time so I only read books that I’m going to find pleasurable.