Today’s guest post is by award winning author Maggie Thom

I love to read and I read a lot but one thing I find I really can’t do is read a book twice. Some people seem to really enjoy doing this and some don’t. I think I fit into the don’t category. Are you someone who reads a book and then pick it up again later, maybe months, maybe years and re-read it? I’ve tried to reread books but I just don’t enjoy it and it sometimes ruins the story for me. I just don’t quite enjoy it the same. One of the following seems to happen for me:

• I pick up a book, I know I really enjoyed and start reading it but because I remember it so well I find myself skimming really fast. So it doesn’t have the same impact it did the first time. It really just turns out to be a trip down memory lane.
• I start reading a book but I know where the good parts are so I skip to them and read mostly only that part.
• I start reading a book and think I’ve read this before but I don’t quite remember it, so I spend the whole time I’m reading trying to remember what the book is about and where the twists are, etc. So I kind of miss out on the whole story. I don’t really get to experience it again.
• I start reading a book I know I liked and I find that it doesn’t quite hit me the way it did the first time. I don’t think there is anything worse than realizing that book that you thought was awesome, is now meh.

For these reasons I tend not to re-read a book I’ve read before. I don’t want to change that original impression and feeling the book gave me. I want to keep that novel as my favorite and not have it end up in the ‘it’s okay pile’ the second time around. How about you, can you read a book twice?

About Maggie Thom

Award winning author, Maggie Thom, took the challenge and leapt off, leaving a full-time, twenty year career in management, to write full time. After publishing her first suspense/thriller book Captured Lies, October 2012, she published her second novel, Tainted Waters, April, 2013.

Tainted Waters went on to win Suspense and Thriller Book of the Year through Turning the Pages Magazine.

She is excited to publish her third novel, Deceitful Truths, March 2014. An avid reader and writer her whole life, she decided to break the monotony of wishing to be an author by making it happen. She is an avid nature lover and likes nothing better than to take a book, hike to a remote spot by a river or waterfalls and read.

Married to her best friend, she is learning that humor, love and patience help her navigate her way through her twins’ teen years. Her motto: Escape to read and Read to escape.

“Maggie Thom writes a fast paced thriller laced with romance that keeps the reader interested and on edge!” InDtale Magazine.

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Captured Lies by Maggie Thom
Published:  October 2012, Re-release March 19th
Publisher: Quadessence Solutions
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller
Recommended Age:  Teen +

Synopsis:

She was kidnapped not once but twice and now someone wants her dead because of it…

Her life was a lie!

Bailey knew her upbringing wasn’t normal but she’s worked hard to stabilize her life. At 29, she finally has a good business, a stable home; her life is miles from that of her childhood. Then suddenly her mother dies, leaving a gaping hole and a discovery that they may not even be related. If Guy, the private investigator is to be believed, her life is a lie. Using the skills she learned on the streets, Bailey travels back through a sketchy and dangerous past, to find answers. Dodging bullets, staying ahead of those who want her dead and convincing Guy she can do it alone, are making it difficult to discover not only the secrets of her mother’s past but that of a family claiming she is theirs.

Everyone seems to have a story… but who’s telling the truth? And who wants her dead? Is Guy part of the solution? Or part of the problem? To discover the facts, she’ll have to untangle a web of deceit, lies, and secrets, dating back over thirty years.

But can she do it in time…

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