I had an interesting discovery yesterday... not that I hadn't on some level known it all along, but I put a name to it yesterday... "comfort books".

You see, on Friday my money woes whacked me upside the head, and I finally had to do something that I really didn't want to do. Yeah, I know it'll all work out okay, but this weekend sucked while I was trying to deal with this.

And to deal with it, I pretty much ignored my kids all weekend and curled up with my comfort books... Amanda Quick... and read 6 or 7 over the course of the weekend. Old ones, new ones, it didn't matter as long as they were hers.

In fact, I'm just realizing now, that under all of her pseudonyms, she's my comfort author. When I'm feeling a little down I pick up her Castle books. When I'm seriously yucky, I pick up her Krentz books. But when I'm truly down in the dumps, I resort to Quick, and I bury myself in them until I either run out of books or whatever is bothering me works its way out of my system.

So, if you'd have asked me before this realization who my favorite author was, I would have said Laurell K. Hamilton, because she is the only author that I buy in hardcover and I buy her book the day it's released. But... LKH isn't who I turn to over and over again like I do JAK... interesting.

Comfort books... an interesting term. Do you have any comfort books?