SIS: Shares In Squidoo - Best Book Lenses

Since this is my blog about books, I thought I would dedicate my first SIS: Shares in Squidoo to the best book related lenses I have spotted so far:

Alica H. (Lensmaster name: eclypsechic) wrote this Best Chick Lit lens, which I enjoyed. It grew my "books to read" list quite a bit! We like a lot of the same authors.

I'm a fan of Janet Evanovich's Plum series, so I must pay tribute here to audiobooks1, who produced this lens, Janet Evanovich Audiobooks. This lens inspired me to move outside of my Plum series comfort zone.

"Pretty Little Liars," the TV show, is one of my guilty pleasures. Imagine my delights when I found this lens with all of the original PTL books listed in order! Thanks, marciag!

I hope and pray my daughter grows up to love reading as much as I do. I learned a lot about the different awards granted to children's books and discovered some gems I would like to add to her bookshelf reading OneFootPutt's lens, Award Winning Children's Books - 2012.

I just realized I haven't posted a lens about books yet! Guess I better get to it!

How It All Got Started

I have been able to read for as long as I can remember.  It started with Around the Corner, a Mark & Janet book. There were smaller Mark & Janet books too. I can remember my dad reading it to me and I took it from his hands and started reading it myself. That was the start of my love of reading.

I also have vivid memories of my Dad reading a Strawberry Shortcake book to me.

As I got older, I read everything I could get in front of me. It didn't matter if it was junk mail, a magazine, or a cereal box. I loved the physical feeling of my eyes converting the shapes of the letters into words, sentences and paragraphs.

For the last 10 years or so, I kind of fell out of love with reading. I read all day long at work. At first as a customer service representative, then as a corporate trainer, and now as an instructional designer. I read and write (type) all day long. At the end of the day, the last thing I wanted to do was read.

One day it hit me: I'd lost interest because all I ever read was non-fiction. My recreational reading was mostly personal development stuff. I had just gotten burned out on it. I read a couple of fiction books and just couldn't get enough! Then I got the Kindle app on my Android phone and download free eBooks and devoured them.

About a month ago, my Mom bought me an actual Kindle. I LOVE IT! It's much easier on my eyes than trying to read on my phone. Of course I will always read on my phone when all else fails!

I'm also into audio books. I recently discovered that I can download them online for FREE from my library!

My main genres now are romantic comedy/"chick lit" and suspense. With Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, I get both! More on that to come as I review the Plum books I'm reading.