Favorite Author

Ok for my next Chalet blog challenge, I picked favorite author as the topic. Of course I'd have to put JK Rowling high on the list for bringing us such a magical world with the Harry Potter series, but for adult books I adore Diana Gabaldon. http://www.dianagabaldon.com/ The book pictured is book 5 of the series. She has written a series of books that I adore. It's the Outlander series and they are amazing. It's basically a love story that crosses time and parts of the world. A nurse in the 1940s steps thru stones in Scotland and gets transported back to the 1740's Scotland. She meets Jamie a young Highlander and they fall in love. Ok so you're thinking, hmm, romance novels, a dime a dozen right? Well not these......her books have unfairly been classified as romance novels, but they are so much more. This woman does her research, whether it's on herbs and medical treatments of the 1700's, or what happened during the Scottish Uprising, on to now they are in the Colonies at the start of the Revolutionary War. Each book is huge, filled with great visual information and detail (ok sometimes the detail may bog you down, but you push through it and it's worth it)........the characters seem so real - flawed but brave - and very funny! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll go "eww" at some of the things Claire deals with as a nurse and later a doctor.....they just wow me - I'm impatiently waiting book 7 just as I was with Harry Potter. Meanwhile I just finished rereading all of them to refresh my memory....if you love to read, and don't mind very long books, I highly recommend them!!!!