I love romance novels, especially historical ones. Reading about people who lived and loved years ago is my favorite type of reading. I enjoy research. I adore digging into the history of an event and looking at the broad picture of why it happened. Things are rarely as simple as it appears on the surface. My favorite time period is rather broad, from 17th through 19th centuries. Of course I will read other periods. I enjoy harvesting bits of information, obscure facts and then weaving them into a story of my own.