Top Ten Tuesday Authors I Wish Were Still Writing

 

Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday sponsored by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today's theme is authors you wish were still writing. This is going to be a meloncaly list. With that said, I had a fun conversation today with the receptionist at the Physical Therapy office I go to. Not sure how we got to talking about books, but we did, and she reads Christian fiction and mentioned how she missed Jim L. Rubart's writing. She's not alone. I miss his writing too. 

Frank Peretti

Jim Rubart

Sandie Bricker 

Candace Calvert

Bonnie Calhoun

Tosca Lee (Unsure. She might have a book in the works.)

Carla Laureano

William Frank Lattimore

Varina Denman

Liz Tolsma

Outside of Sandie Bricker, all of these authors might have a book in the works that I don't know about. When you get used to authors having a new book every year or so, you miss them, and I miss reading these authors.

Who do you wish were still writing? 

Top Ten Tuesday - Favorite Troublemakers

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is characters I loved that were in Non favored/disliked books. Fair to say but if I didn't like the book then I probably didn't like any of the characters. Plus, I can't think of one book that I didn't care for but loved the character. So, I'm going rogue this week and posting my favorite troublemakers. I was going to do villains but most of the books I read have a character or two that just cause trouble.
You'll probably recognize some of these characters as the books have been featured on my blog over the years.

Tuck the father from A Woman of Fortune. . . he makes a mess of things causing a nightmare for his family to clean up.

Tara from Deliver Us From Darkness

Aunt Andra from Love's Fortune . . . she's not very nice to Wren which made me want to sock her!

Ben . . . from Unfailing Love (Isle of Hope #1) . . . Lacey's surgeon father who kicked her out years ago and is still kind of a putz when Lacey returns.

Stella from Love Arrives in Pieces . . . while she's the heroine she sort of gets in her own way.

Captain Luke Whitfield from Mist of Midnight . . . even though he's the hero, the heroine finds him in her family's home which he's claimed as his. Might make romance a little hard.

Sweetness from Fetching Sweetness . . . A lovable dog is the troublemaker in this cute canine book, and she gives the heroine a run for her money, literally.

Prince Nikola from Firstborn  . . . He's determined to kill the heroine over a secret she now remembers.

Charity from A Passion Denied . . . you knew one of the O'Connor girls would be apart of this list, huh?! Charity is a troublemaker with a capital T!

Jack from A Hope Undaunted . . . Katie's boyfriend who is determined to "encourage" her to do things that get her in trouble with her father, Patrick.

And there you have it! My favorite troublemakers! Looking at your current read or the one you just finished who's the troublemaker? Let me know in the comments!

Top Ten Tuesday Book's I Can't Believe I Read

This top ten topic is a different one. The Artsy Reader Girl's topic is: Books I Can't Believe I Read.
Before I started reviewing, I couldn't tell you the main genre of books I read. I was kind of all over the place. My twist: is how different books that were out of my go-to genre hooked me on different genres.




Before I dive into which books turned me to genres there are two book series' that I still can't believe I read...mainly because so many pastors had negative things to say about the Harry Potter and  Twilight series when they came out. I almost missed out on very imaginative books, because I thought I would be "sinning" if I read them. I was raising children when Harry Potter came out, and it was hated by our pastor, which gave me the opinion that no one has a right to tell anyone what to read or not read. As a reviewer, I can recommend or not recommend a book, but each reader needs to decide for him or herself what is okay for them.

Click the covers below to go to their Goodreads page.

I was in my mid-twenties when this book came out; our entire Sunday School class read it. This Present Darkness was way outside of my comfort zone, but I am so glad I read it. It gave me a new perspective on spiritual warfare and led me to read some other great books with the theme of spiritual warfare.

Before I started reviewing in 2007, I don't think I heard the words biblical fiction together as a genre. When I think of the Bible I think Old Testament which means boring. I was so wrong! Thanks to Jill Eileen Smith I now love biblical fiction, it is one of my favorite genres.

This may sound really strange, but I thought fairy tales were for kids. Melanie Dickerson proved that thought very wrong. We all want to wish upon a star, and have our prince charming rescue us.

Dreamspell introduced me to well written time travel. I tried reading others and just couldn't get into them. Dreamspell is so different and so good!

Dystopian isn't my go to genre but I love Sara Ella's novel Unblemished which led me to read The Evaporation of Sofi Snow.

Let me know in the comments what books you can't believe you've read, and if they enticed you to try a new genre.