Discovering a "New" author

The delight in "discovering" a "new" author is always a thrill to me. When I find an author I like, I want to read all their books, and in order of publication...sometimes. I am savoring another novel by Elinor Lipman at 4 am...and I am agreeing with myself, that yes, this is an author that I will have to read everything. Tonight the novel is Isabel's Bed. I kept picking this book up, reading the end covers, turning it over in my hands, intrigued. But it hadn't really crossed my radar, that's my euphemism for a book that catches my attention mostly for the number of times I read a review, hear something about it, or even notice other people reading that book. Afraid that it might be about a lesbian couple, I put it back, and go on to something else. But, it is now the third novel by Lipman that I have read, okay, I'm not one quarter done, but I will finish it and I am enjoying it. Basically the story is told in the first person by a woman who takes up residence on Cape Cod with another woman, to ghost write the home owner's story and get free room and board in the trade. Who wouldn't like that? Cape Cod in the winter, there's a place I want to go even if I'm only there in my book travels. I have inherited the Cape Cod envy from my Mother, which she craved from her readings of books like the Gilbert's ( of Cheaper by the Dozen fame) Nantucket books. Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House...My Own Cape Cod by Gladys Taber to name a few. My sister sent me Susan Branch's cooking books about Martha's Vineyard. But, I think its Lipman's writing style that I like the most. I started with The Pursuit of Alice Thrift , a delightful comedy of an intern's love life in Boston. Then I read My Latest Grievance which is told by a sixteen year old daughter of houseparents at a small private college. I loved the whole premise of the book,, she discovers her father had been married before her mother, and she meets her father's first wife through the ex-wife's present to her through the mail on her sixteenth birthday. What a delightful way to begin a story. So, I am happy for now because I have an author's books to look forward to for the coming year. And maybe I'll introduce this author to others readers and see where that goes.