So, while on our trip up to Colorado Springs, my husband and I had a lot of time to talk while driving the 1,800 miles (including there and back again). Some of the time we talked about books, authors, series, those types of things, sort of like when our children were small and we would play “What am I?” types of games.
Let me say, before I pose the following question we talked about, that I am utterly spoiled by my Kindle. Taking all sorts of mysteries, a whole lot of authors, and even games in one tiny, little “book” is incredible. But, my husband posed this question to me:
You’re on a deserted island, you don’t have a Kindle (or Nook, ETC), you have only two authors’ books, who would those two authors be?
Of course, my first question was: Is each of the authors a single-name author, or can I lump all of that authors’ pseudonyms and series into that authors’ books? So, here is the revision of this question:
You’re on a deserted island, you don’t have a Kindle, Nook, or any other library-type of reader, you have only two authors (each author is allowed all of his/her pseudonyms and/or series), who would those two authors be?
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I went through all of the authors who you all said you would want to take with you to a deserted island. Here is the list:
Amanda Ashley (aka Madeline Baker)
Jane Austen
Donald Bain (aka Jessica Fletcher)
M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney)
Kathleen Brooks
Charles Dickens
Michael Dibdin
Doris Miles Disney
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Diana Gabaldon
Peggy L. Henderson
Reginald Hill (aka Patrick Ruell)
Mercedes Lackey
Mary Lasswell
Joyce and Jim Lavene (aka J. J. Cook & Ellie Grant
Barbara Mertz (aka Barbara Michaels & Elizabeth Peters)
Terry Prachett
Nora Roberts (aka J.D. Robb)
J.K. Rowling
Dell Shannon (aka Lesley Egan & Elizabeth Linington)
I hope I didn’t miss anyone!
I wish time hadn’t passed so quickly, and that we were getting ready for the four of us (my husband, son, daughter, and me) making our yearly summer trip up to Colorado to visit my father, mother, and younger brother. We would always leave early in the morning so that we could stop by late afternoon. Our son and daughter always looked forward to swimming in the hotels’ pools. We would wake up the next morning, really early, so that we could make it to Colorado Springs as early as possible, since both our son and daughter couldn’t wait to see Gramps and Maya, Uncle Stephen, and Aspen (my dad’s Cocker Spaniel). Our yearly trips would always include a trip to up to the Denver Zoo, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, putt-putt golf, swimming at the neighborhood pool, and barbecues. In short, fun!