Karen Robards is the New York Times, USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of fifty novels and one novella. She is the winner of six Silver Pen awards and numerous other awards.
Her new novel is The Moonlight Runner.
Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Her reply:
Thanks to the movie that just came out, what I’m reading, or re-reading, right now is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, one of my very favorite books of all time. I first read it when I was around ten years old. I’d been sent to stay with my grandparents while my parents traveled. Theirs was a big old house in the country and it seems to me in retrospect that it rained the entire time I was there. Which meant I was trapped indoors with little to do except explore the house, so explore I did, all the way up to the cobweb-festooned attic. In the attic I discovered a trunk filled with old books. I was already an avid reader of Nancy Drew and that type of mostly age-appropriate fiction, but what I found in that trunk was a literary revelation. Gone With The Wind, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, The Hobbit – and, among many others,Visit Karen Robards's website.Wuthering Heights. I loved them all (well, maybe not The Grapes Of Wrath, though I grew to appreciate it later), but Wuthering Heights is the story that lodged in my heart and remains there to this day. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” said by Cathy about Heathcliff, was and is the most romantic line I’ve ever read. And yes, this is a romance, a tragic and tortured romance, but a romance nevertheless. Orphaned, foundling Heathcliff is the ultimate antihero, spoiled, privileged Cathy the classic gothic heroine doomed by her own hubris. Theirs is a haunting tale of passion, obsession and revenge – and ultimately, redemption. This comes in the form of the younger version of their characters, Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw, finding happiness together, while (in my mind, at least) the ghosts of Heathcliff and Cathy are left to wander the Yorkshire moors together for eternity in their own dark version of a happily ever after.
--Marshal Zeringue
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