Reading Jane Eyre and GoodReads.com

So I've started reading one of the books on the list  I posted yesterday, Jane Eyre. And so far I am really enjoying what is said to be classic, but I do have a hard time sometimes understanding what the Author is talking about. I'm just now at the part where is has been sent away to the school and let me just say I'm glad she is gone from the horrible home. I'm so thankful to have grown up in a time where being cousins isn't like that and that my Aunt's and Uncles are caring. I feel so bad for this young girl who has NO ONE. I hope to give a better review once I'm done reading this book and think I'm going to truely enjoy it.

Onto another Topic I recently joined www.goodreads.com and its a pretty neat little website for people to review and talk about books. But what I really want to talk about is a message I got from a Gentlemen from New York.
 Here is the message he sent me:

NYKen said to you: Hi Gina, Good evening. I’m Ken from NY. The genres that I read consists mostly of Mystery and Suspense/Thrillers. Aside from that, I would also read non-fiction. I wanted to try reading something new for a change. A friend of mine suggested why not read romance novels. I was somewhat surprised at the suggestion. Of course, I thought about it, and googled the top romance authors at this time. I chose Nora Roberts from the list, and typed her name here at Good Reads. And this novel, “Vision in White” appeared at the top of the reading list. I will give it a try and drop by Barnes and Noble sometime this week. Your name popped up as one of the many people that rated this book. I hope you don’t mind me asking you two questions about romance and romance novels. 1] In your opinion, what is romance to you? 2] What do you as a reader, get from reading romance novels? I am sorry to take your time, but thanks very much for taking the time to read my message to you. Your time is very much appreciated. Have a good weekend. Thanks & Best Regards, Ken

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Okay for starters I like a guy who is going to give romance novels a try , I like a guy even MORE when he picks Nora Roberts for his first Romance Author to try, so of course I replied back how could I not. 

But before I post my response I want to ask you Why do you read a certain kind of novel over another? 

What do you get from reading those kinds of books? Me I love almost any book about any subject, yes I have my favorites but I will read just about anything.Why you ask? Because I like to read! Reading is the ultimate way for us to use our imagination, we as the reader get to visualize the characters how we seem them and the author gets to share their vision with us. Well I hope you all learned something from this and that is to go outside of your comfort zone of reading and try something new , you never know you might like what you read but before you go here is my response to his questions:

 

			Good Morning! I personal think Nora Roberts is a perfect author to start off with if you want to give romance a try. But I want to suggest a different book series to you other than "Vision in White" it is a very good book but to me very girlie. Try the Sign of Seven Trilogy , the books are "Blood Brothers" "The Hollow" and "The Pagan stone, it is a romance but it also has a little bit of thrillers and somethings that go bump in the night plus the main characters are 3 guys. But to answer your questions 1) To me Romance is about how to people fall in love and the obstacles that stand in their way to get there, hence one reason why Nora Roberts is the perfect author to read to me for romance. It's all about how either how these two people have to fight for their love or are fighting something together and don't even know they are in love that gets me. 2) I get joy from reading them just as I do from any other books that I read. I'm not one of those "I wish that this was my life " kind of readers. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't complain if my husband wanted to take a few ques from the romance books I read . Romance novels aren't an escape to a world where knights in shining armor still exist to me they are just simple joy to read about how to people simply fall in love.