Lee Weick

I love family drama, mysteries, magical realism a bit.

And I enjoy trying the unusual.

For example, the English Understand Wool and the History of Sound are two that I read in the last year that were unlike, each of those was unlike anything I'd ever read before and I enjoyed them.

But I also like my old reliable favorites like Jane Austen and a new favorite, thanks to you, Maggie O'Farrell.

My favorite three living authors are Maggie O'Farrell, Eric Larson, and Amar Tolles, although none of them show up in my books that I'm going to bring.

Yeah, they deserved a shout out.

They're so great.

I noticed that I was reading a certain type of book over the last few years.

It was great because I'd been introduced to these new contemporary fiction, but I was reading books that all fell in the 350 to 450 page count and were primarily, not exclusively, but primarily contemporary fiction books.

I had a number of lengthy books on my TBR and really wanted to get to them.

Team of Rivals has been sitting on my nightstand for two or three years.

And it's a long book, more than 700 pages.

But I really wanted to read it.

And so I was asking myself, why don't I pick it up and read it?

And I discovered that it was because I like having several different books going at the same time.

I don't just read one book straight through.

I want some variety.

I'm a little bit of a mood reader.

So I want to be able to dip in and out of some different topics or some things that feel different in their style.

And if I start into a long book...