Booking through Thursday

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for this week’s Booking Through Thursday.

1. How did you come across your favorite author(s)? Recommended by a friend? Stumbled
across at a bookstore? A book given to you as a gift?

Mostly, I stumble upon my favorite authors by accident or through recommendations of some type or other. I discovered Lois McMaster Bujold after everybody and their sister exclaimed over the fact that, as someone who loves science fiction, I had not read any of her work. And I believe that I checked out George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books from the library on a whim. But these days, my favorite new discoveries have come from review sites. I would like to think I’d have picked up a Meljean Brook or a Nalini Singh book without review blogs, but it would have taken me a while.

2. Was it love at first sight? Or did the love affair evolve over a long acquaintance?

That depends on the author. Honestly, both Lois McMaster Bujold and George R. R. Martin started out slow for me, so I gradually had to work up to loving their books. Charles de Lint wrote some books I absolutely adored, but some of his later work leaves me a bit cold–it’s all the switching back and forth between first and third person POV that gets me. And I haven’t read enough from the handful of romance authors I adore to list them as favorites yet.