http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/ CataNetwork-Readers Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:42:52 GMT kudzoo222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27707 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27707 I forgot to give you the link http://singletitles.com/?p=2637 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:36:55 GMT kudzoo222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27706 Blog: Writing Romance From the Male Point of View by Michael Baron and a Book Give Away!! Now is the time to read what a man feels when he is writing a Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:48:41 GMT Morgan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27705 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27705 It's that time of year again. The leaves have all turned color, many of them have tumbled to the ground, there's a nip in the air, and the sun goes down Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:44:49 GMT kudzoo222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27704 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27704 Here is another way I know the book is a keeper. I put my name in the inside cover and only let my daughter, mother or sister borrow it! But even then I Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:38:04 GMT Jude http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27703 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27703 I do have a few books that are keepers. This only happens when I can see myself reading it again. It either made me laugh or cry or it touched me in some Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:26:32 GMT Deborah Macgillivray http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27702 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27702 Anne Stuart (resident genius of romance and bad boys) does this all the time. She set out and takes an anti-hero that we HATE and makes us love him. Amazing Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:21:13 GMT Alice Anderson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27701 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27701 Susan, you have a good point. A great author can take a character that I wouldn't normally like and make me sympathetic to them. In fact, many authors wouldn't Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:16:35 GMT Susan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27700 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27700 What's really amazing, and, I think makes for keepers, is that some authors can get us to want to be friends with vampires, werewolves, dragons and blue people Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:15:30 GMT Ali http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27699 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27699 Um, actually, even I didn't like a book, it's hard for me to part with them, hehe. Now, I do have certain ones I'll go back to, and for those, it all depended Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:13:49 GMT Alice Anderson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27698 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27698 Adding to what Susan said... I think keepers are those books that are big enough that you want and can read again and still come away as if it were a fresh Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:33:49 GMT Susan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27697 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27697 Lots of times Keepers for me involve my favorite writers. Then I think what makes an author a favorite writer and it's usually her treatment of story and Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:25:16 GMT kudzoo222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27696 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27696 Single Titles has a fantastic contest for all authors of romance, thrillers and mysteries. Win free advertising on this prestigious website by entering at Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:25:02 GMT EmilyH http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27695 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27695 For me a keeper is a book I can't put down and once I am done I think about for days. It is also a book that I can't wait to reread in case I missed something Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:09 GMT kudzoo222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27694 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27694 You must come read the interesting interview given by Karen White and leave a comment or question at http://singletitles.com/?p=2728. You just might win one Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:06:54 GMT kudzoo222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27693 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CataNetwork-Readers/message/27693 What Makes a Book a Keeper???? I must admit that I have oodles of books that I can not wait to read, have read and were given to read but not all of them would