Diane asked Terez Mertes Rose:

What books do you like to read ?

Terez Mertes Rose I've always got half a dozen books I'm reading at once. Always a few nonfiction, like a biography or history-based, and toss in another two books that have a educational or self-exploration angle to them. As for fiction, which I simply can't live without, I love novels (and authors) that develop the characters so distinctly, you feel like they are a close friend and you want to follow them anywhere they go. That tends to be in the women's fiction and literary fiction category. I'm curiously uninterested in the new subgenre of "domestic thriller." Little dark secret: early into those books, I'll page to the end, find out who did what, or what the dramatic point was about, and then return to reading so I can enjoy the characters, the writing. I enjoy thrillers IF the characters are interesting, compelling, and grow through the story. Novels that are heavy on plot and light on character growth I don't often read, although my bookshelves hold a staggering variety of reads, because, hey, some days you want a different type of read. I'm a sucker for a love story, but I'm not a romance reader, because they tend to follow a formula and there's rarely a lot of character development. In the end, I absolutely love escaping into a story and being caught under its spell. It probably sounds melodramatic to say that life without books isn't worth living, but I kinda sorta believe that. I just love having those sanctuaries to slip into. No surprise that I turned to fiction writing, then, as a career.

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