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Oh gosh, John Norman...I read some of the Gor books when I was way too young for them...my parents had no idea! 

And hah, I completely went off into non-romance right away, didn't I?  Like Paisley, it's a new genre for me, so most of my prolific reading was in sci-fi, fantasy, or mystery.  I forgot about Agatha Christie!  Read a bunch of her when I was a kid, too.

 

Oh gosh, isn't that annoying, when you finally have time to read getting constantly interrupted...I've been a horrible reading slacker this year, caught up with school and work and this and that, but I'm improving slightly this summer. 

Good luck with your reading!

Interesting...now I'm wishing I had a database so I could see which authors I've read the most of...it would probably have to be one of the authors of a series I read as a kid, but I'm not sure which ones were written by ghostwriters.  I know Nancy Drew and the Sweet Valley books were, so they don't count...what about the Babysitter's Club?  Hmm.

Otherwise, I'd say probably Anne McCaffrey...prolific, and I really enjoyed her books, so I read most of them.  She beats out Mercedes Lackey and Marion Zimmer Bradley by just a tiny bit, I think.  

Really glad to hear your daughter is doing well...and I totally agree with the book cover rants!  Some of them make me crazy.

FF, that's funny, Lackey is another one that writes some books I can't get into at all (the Lunas), and others that are definitely in my 10+ rereads (so much love for Arrows of the Queen!).

$9!!  Nice!  I`m glad to hear you enjoy McCaffrey, too...some of her stuff is hit-or-miss for me but her early books, especially the dragon ones, are among my favourites of all time.  Hope you enjoy the rereads!

Jeannie--I love it!  I got my little sister into Orson Scott Card and she doesn't read sci-fi, either...guess there's something about him that bridges the reading gap!

Wow, what a neat challenge...I don't know if I could manage it this year (my reading is going very slowly and strangely) but I love the idea.

The first writer who comes to mind for X is Xinran Xue, but I've never read anything by her. 

I keep everything, even those I don't plan to reread, because I am crazy.  Also, I lend them out to friends.

I do have many, many books I reread, though, and some I've reread more than twenty times.  Generally these are literary type books, which I reread to savour the language, or my comfort reads, which are well-written books with characters and plots I love (often these are books I read as a kid).  

Some of my favourite rereads include: Sharon Shinn's Archangel, Charles de Lint's Memory and Dream, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Kelley Armstrong's Bitten...and many more.  Dragonsong and a few other of McCaffrey's I've read almost every year since I was nine.

I'm new to Harlequin (been reading them for fewer than three years) but I expect to have a few favourite rereads from the Bombshells (Evelyn Vaughn, Cindy Dees, Ruth Wind), Lunas (Catherine Asaro, Sarah Zettel) and others (Doranna Durgin's Nose for Trouble, and I'm loving some of the Mira suspense books).  

Take care of yourself and take a break when if need to...you know we'll all be here waiting for your rambling (because we love it) when you get back  

I'm glad to hear you've seen the doctor and are dealing with it.  It's so hard sometimes to recognize when something's crept up on you...happened to me a few years ago with an illness and my doctor said I'd likely been sick at least six months before coming in to see her.  It was such a relief just knowing something was wrong and that I wasn't supposed to feel so run down all the time...

I ended up being sick for over a year and I remember discovering Silhouette Bombshell and just reading a tonne of the backlist--you are so right about the action and adventure, and getting lost in a book--that's what worked for me most of the time. 

Lots of love & best wishes!!