Love of reading | clair-brett

My Thoughts on the Mystery Genre

Mysteries. To be honest, when I was younger, I never liked mysteries per se. I compared them to the game of clue, I guess. I think that...

The Great Thing About Rereading Beloved Books

Books, books, and more books! If you were to look at my various TBR piles littering every room in my house, you would think I never have a n

Fall Colors and Banned Books Oh, My

As I write this post, we are having a magnificent day up here in northern NH. The colors are breathtaking, but there is no sign of the comin

Mature Couples as Heroes and Heroines

I have always believed that human nature is human nature no matter the time period. And, just like today, there are people who choose to tak

What I am Working on Right Now

This is going to be a fun ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ type of romp in the English country side with snowflakes falling and shenanigans

Book Covers I Love

I am in love with my latest book’s cover. I wanted the reader to get a feel for the back story, as well as getting a glimpse of the story pr

What Great Book Have I Read Recently

More recently, I use reading for pleasure as my reward for getting my own work finished, so I have been in a bit of a dry spell trying to ge

Those Characters that Stick with Us

It is universal in the book world that any reader or writer has that one book they hold near and dear. They will have it I all formats (I ju

A Rainy Day is a Perfect Day.

Yup, there is a name for people like me. No, not that one... The name for people who love and find calm by the rain is Pluviophile. While it

The Importance of Reviews

I woke up this morning to a new review on Goodreads for my latest book Visions of Pleasure. It makes my coffee a little sweeter when I hear

What I Read When I'm Not Writing

have a huge TBR pile. Who are we fooling? This isn’t some cute pile next to my bed, we are talking bookshelves in multiple rooms worth of bo

Why I Love Writing

Like my favorite authors; Julia Quinn, Hannah Howell, Karen Hawkins, to name a very few the other thing I love about writing is to bring joy