My favourite author wrote the last good book I read
I have never been good in deciding what or whom I
like most. When I read Harry Potter
for the first time, I decided J.K
Rowling would become my all-time favourite author. But then I read Percy Jackson and thought Rick Riordan should be my favourite. Every
month, if not every week, my favourite book changes and so does the name of my
favourite author.
For the time being, my favourite author is Rainbow Rowell. And I crowned her this
spot last month after reading Fangirl
and Carry On. About a year ago, she
had been my favourite for quite a few months when I read Eleanor and Park but was later dethroned by Robyn Schneider (for his brilliant work on The Beginning of Everything).
I am very fond of Rainbow Rowell’s writing style with
the brilliant and heart-smashing endings that each of her books carry. I won’t
rant about how good her books are in this post but a quick visit to GoodReads
should tell you all about it. It is a shame I haven’t reviewed any of her books
here on my blog yet. If you happen to like John
Green, you are bound to like my current favourite.
My reading taste is strictly limited inside the Young
Adult genre and even though I have books from Harper Lee, Salman Rushdie and Aravind
Adiga on my shelves, they are yet to be read. Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
is the farthest stretch that I have gone out from my comfortable genre. Oh!
Also Dan Brown’s books featuring
Robert Langdon.
The list of authors that I called favourite before Rowell is a long one. All
of them are YA authors and are pretty famous. They include the likes of Ernest Cline (Ready Player One), Suzanne
Collins (The Hunger Games) and
many more. Closer home, I can’t name anyone except Durjoy Dutta and Chetan
Bhagat. Even though not all of their books are likable, Till the Last Breath of the former and the
latter’s Revolution 2020 are commendable
works.
Everyone in bold above has been my favourite for a
period or two. I understand that I have so many more authors to try out and
crown the good ones as favourites, to move out of my genre and explore literacy
works, to fall in love with more worlds and swim in the lyrics of excellent books
and that my reading universe is very very small. I can’t wait to read more.
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