Sometimes (quite often, actually) I need to read something just for fun, and when I am in this phase, I need to do this by the dozen. Luckily for me, there are so many really well written, fun reads out there. And when I discover one of those jewels, I keep on reading the books by the same auther until I’m through or the “easy reading” phase is over.
The writer I am currently “on” is Meg Cabot. She is mainly known for her books for young adults, but has also written a bunch of novels for a more mature public. Her trademark is the way she enters into the personality of her subjects and lets them tell the story by themselves. Three of her adult books are in the form of e-mail exchanges (and phone messages, IM messages, journal entries, notes on menues and so on). Some of her books are in the form of a personal diary – best known of the lot is of course the princess diaries series (made into two movies, of whom sadly only the first one is worth looking). For the adult crowd she has also written two crime novels, with a songwriting heroine worrying about her weight.
To me it really does not matter which of her books I read, I love the ones for younger people as much as those for us more “elderly” readers. They all have a freshness to them that I really enjoy. I read somewhere that Cabot ”writes about dreams coming true”. And this certainly is a worthy cause, isn’t it? She can be incredibly funny, has some real insight into the troubled souls of teenagers, and seems to enjoy what she is doing to the hilt.
She has her own website with blog, of course. See Meg’s diary.
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