I’m now winding down my time here at my ‘summer home’ in Kentucky and will be heading back to Iowa soon. I’ve enjoyed it — even all the work painting and getting this house ready to sell (again), but I have missed having internet access and being able to visit blogs and comment on them. I’ve gone to the library for my own blog postings, but just haven’t had much time for other book blog community activity. I HAVE had time to listen to lots of audio CDs while working and I’ve devoured some print books as well, most notably the Twilight series, some of Sookie Stackhouse, and some of Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series, all of which need reviews!
Series books can be a comfort in that you already know the characters, but there’s also a danger sometimes, of the series going on too long and becoming dull. For instance, even though Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective series has 10 books, I’m not tired of them yet. I love them and have not tired of them in the least. I’m pretty sure I won’t complete the Sookie Stackhouse series, though, and I haven’t made up my mind yet on The Inspector Gamache series. Usually I can tell by the third book or so if I’ll continue or not. Of course, much of anyone’s delight in a series is simply a matter of a reader’s taste as well. Every reader and book blogger is so different, but that’s also what makes reading books (and blogs) exciting. When I find a book blogger that has very similar tastes to my own, I definitely take notice, but I also enjoy reading those blogs whose owners have different tastes from mine, so that I can at least be knowledgeable about what’s out there.
Book Blogger Appreciation Week is this week, and though I haven’t been able to spend as much time commenting on my favorite blogs as I’d like to, mostly because of lack of internet access, I hope you know that I do appreciate the book blogging community very much.
Here’s to all of you!
I have to say I look forward to you being around more regularly!
Thanks, Kailana, I do, too!