New books

Today the sun is shining and it actually got up to 29 degrees. Some dear friends of ours stopped to visit this afternoon. And I got a box of books in the mail today. As I mentioned in my last blog, I ordered a bunch of books from Christianbook.com. My favorite author is Karen Kingsbury. I read the five books in her Redemption series several years ago. But they are followed by 3 more series that continue about the same family, the Baxters. The firstborn series has 5 books, and the Sunset/Sunrise series has 4 books I think and then the Above the Line series has 2 but 2 more to come yet. The Redemption ones I checked out of the library but then my daughter bought me one of them knowing I wanted to own them all. For Christmas she got me the first two of the Above the Line series. So I decided to bite the bullet and order the missing ones so I could start over and then read on through all 16 of them. I couldn't put my finger on the one she bought me from the Redemption series but I had it in my head that it was the first one. So I ordered the other 4 and all the rest. Now that they are arriving here, I found the one I had and it was actually #2 Remember. So now I have a second one of that one coming and will not have #1 unless I send in another order. I am so frustrated with myself that I didn't look before I ordered. Now it will be another 2 weeks before I will have the whole set and can start reading them all. Oh well, books don't spoil for waiting. I love books! My daughter does too. I used to just have one or two authors that I collected. Now my whole house is nearly full of books. Shelves are completely full, 2 deep and others piled on top. There are books in boxes and piles of books in corners. I have started weeding some out to give to our church library for others to read. But I have so many favorite authors that I can't part with! Who are your favorite authors? We won't part with any Karen Kingsbury, Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, Linda Nichols, Tracie Peterson, Liz Curtis Higgs, Nicholas Sparks, Richard Paul Evans, and quite a few others. My favorite all time book was Not My Will by Francena H. Arnold. I first read that one when I was a teen and I've reread it so many times and I cry every time I do. What authors do you collect? What do you do with your overabundance of books?