What is the best bottle of wine that you can buy?

Is it a bottle that costs $10 or a bottle that costs $1,000?  Would it be a French wine, Italian, South African, or from another country?  There are so many possible answers to that question because there are so many to choose from.  You can try a friend’s recommendation, or you might do research on what different wine experts say and try one of their choices.  However, the best answer I heard to this question is that the best wine to buy is the one that you enjoy.   That is logical, I am sure you will agree. People differ.  Personal tastes differ.  What you like, I might not like and vice versa.
The same kind of question can be asked about books.  What is your favorite novel?  What kind of fiction do you like to read?  Do you prefer romance fiction, crime fiction, horror fiction, mystery fiction, fantasy books, or suspense fiction?
The answer might vary depending on how you or I feel at the moment.  Yet, whatever genre of book that I might wish to read at any given moment, my preferences often have something in common.  I like a novel or a story that stimulates my imagination and that draws me into the scene that the author is creating, while at the same time engaging my emotions and interest.
One author who has that effect on me is the late Georgette Heyer.  Some of you might ask: “Georgette Who?” Georgette Heyer!  Among other things she wrote romance fiction, crime fiction and historical novels often set in the 1700’s and early 1800’s in England and Europe.  Though she may not be too well known to many modern-day lovers of fiction, one book-selling company said that she is one of their top 10 bestselling authors!  Not bad for someone who died in 1974!
One reason why I like her books is her use of description.  As mentioned, some, in fact, many of her books were set in the early 1800’s or to be more precise, what is known as the Regency period in England.  Namely, the decade of 1811-1820 when then king of Great Britain, George III was deemed unfit to rule, and his son, later George IV, ruled as his proxy as the Prince Regent.
This period was about 100 years before Georgette Heyer lived and vastly different from her world and that of her readers; in language, in dress and customs.  So to help her readers understand the setting and time period of her novels, she included a lot of detailed information in them.  This information was also apparently very accurate as Heyer collected reference works and kept detailed notes on all aspects of Regency life.
Yet, despite the level of detail that she gave in her novels, it is the way she did it that makes me marvel at her as an author.  As I read through such of her works as The Grand Sophy, Regency Buck, a collection of short stories Pistols For Two, I am not weighed down by an avalanche of detail, but I am fed just enough information at each moment to make me feel I am part of her scene, while being absorbed in her characters and her wit at storytelling.
If you have not read any of Georgette Heyer’s works, why not give them a try?  You can find them well enough online.  I may not be a literary expert, but she would be one of my recommendations!