Challenge Complete: Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book

Last summer Gina at Book Dragon's Lair solicited our top five comfort reads--books that we love and could read over and over again. She gathered all those together to make up the Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book Challenge.

The rules were simple:
*Go to her site (click link above).
*Select five books from the list that you've never read before.
*Read them.
*If you like, post reviews about them. But if not, she'd like to hear about why you chose the books you did.

Here are the books I decided to read for the challenge:
1. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (7/18/12)
2. Venetia by Georgette Heyer (4/7/12)
3. The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun (5/22/12)
4. The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman (5/24/12)
5. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (5/4/12)

 

In short, here's what influenced my choices: the Gaskell book had been on my long TBR list for quite a while. I love Georgette Heyer's books (both Regency romance and mysteries) and Venetia is one I haven't gotten to yet.  I originally chose The Spy Wore Red  as my third book because it takes place during WWII, one of my favorite periods. But I had to change to a Lilian Jackson Braun book.  I could have sworn that The Spy Wore Red was available at my library when I made this list.  It is no longer.  The Lipman book just sounded good when I read the synopsis. And Anne of Green Gables was one of those books that it seems like everyone in the world has read but me--I decided to change that.