With the Kobo being out now, and cheap, I am thinking of loaning mine to my about-to-retire mother, with the aim that if she likes it, she can keep it as her retirement present. I want to load it up with some books for her. She has commented that she thinks she is not sure she would like my books, but in the past we have shared paper books so I am not sure where this is coming from
I know she'll like these ones:
Nora Roberts (she may like the JD Robb stuff; not sure she'll like the straight romances)
Jodi Picoult (she enjoys this author already)
Pat Conroy (his newest is a sweeping saga-esque thing; she goes for that)
Janet Evanovich (she likes mysteries and female authors/characters)
And here are some maybes:
Norbert Davis (she likes mysteries and is a dog fan; this author will be new to her though and is a bit dated)
Ariana Franklin (may be too 'historical fiction' based for her)
Jon Grisham (there are heaps of these in the public library e-system here; she may have read much of them in paper already though)
J.A. Jance (this is just her thing, but I don't have the earlier books so she may feel lost and prefer to start with book 1)
Jeff Lindsay (Dexter is too smarmy and unlikeable for her, I suspect)
I think sometimes I confuse her because I read very different things. So she sees me with Jodi Picoult and tells me she is reading the latest one and enjoying it. Then she sees me with Charlaine Harris and thinks all my books are weird
The two types of books I see her with most often are mystery/suspense type stuff and 'chick lit' like Barbara Delinsky. She takes these massive books to Florida every year that are long enoug to take the whole vacation. They are usually stuff like those giant sweeping romance epic things which follow several families through multiple generations of love and war and babies over the course of a hundred years or so. Oh, and she has a husband with a Tom Clancy habit. She'll read those in a pinch but I don't think she prefers them.
She's still doing this whole 'I don't see why I need these things if I can go and buy a book in paper any time I want' thing, but as the reader will be free, and she's retiring and feeling adventurous, I am seizing the moment. What are some other good authors I can include for her?