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8/4/11 - Feature & Follow #57

This week's #FF Blog Hop question:

Q. Talk about the book that most changed or influenced your life (was it a book that turned you from an average to avid reader, did it help you deal with a particularly difficult situation, does it bring you comfort every time you read it?).

Oh, my! What a question. How am I supposed to pick one – repeat one! - book? 

Hello, I've read forever. In real world terms that's about ten-years twenty-years... Yeah, let's not touch the age thing. Shall we?

Let's just say I started reading in grade school and I have loved nearly every book I have ever picked-up.

Okay, let's answer the actual question. So many of you are going to groan, but I can't change the past. When I hit my mid-thirties, I decided to go back to school. I now have a bachelors in accounting and several years killing myself during tax season. Hated it. Loved the numbers & the people, hated the tax law. After a season of working 6 ½ days a week, I quit.

Talk about burn out. I went straight from killer accounting courses in college to insane work hours. No life. No reading.

The first thing I read was Twilight. Yeah, I said you would groan. I inhaled all four books (I love the Twilight series!) then read Rachel Hawthorne's Dark Guardian series. I can't say which series touched me the most. That was all in the first two weeks of quiting my job. I read really fast.

I'd always loved fantasy writers like Mercedes Lackey, but I quickly became hooked on paranormal romance.

I made the decision to follow a dream I'd had since I was a teenager. You see, I stopped writing in my teens to find a 'real' job.

I've been writing for the last two years and love it!

Jodie B. Cooper
http://sidhinews.blogspot.com/