This was suggested by Mary.
Connect any six books in your library to each other by any way you want. One book will remind you of another because the author's name is similar, a fictional character shows up in someone else's book, another author is talked about by characters in a book, maybe the same friend recommended both books, or whatever. Books from a series count as one entry in your list.
Okay, in high school I read an article in Rolling Stone or somewhere about Sting and he said that one of his favorite reads at the time was Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice around that time we also did a unit on Edgar Allen Poe in English class. Those two authors have pretty much led me into everything else I have read to date. There was a big break in my "free" reading time as I was a Literature and Education major in college so when I did have free time I did NOT want to read(usually I wanted to get drunk). After college I was starting work and working on my Masters, so again, not a lot of free reading going on. Then I decided to combine my love of Rice/Poe into something related to adolescent lit.(because that's what I taught). That led me in 1998 to Harry Potter(which of course is much less edgy and grim). Harry led me into spending more time in the Science Fiction/Fantasy section of the book store where I happened upon Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind that series had me hooked until about the 5th book when it started getting too weird for my liking. In my search for a place to discuss Terry's books online, I found out about Laurell Hamilton's books, I remember when I first read Guilty Pleasures; I finished it in two days and ordered everything else she had in print at the time. My long standing love of vampires/werewolves and my new found love for the way Laurell brought them into the present led me to Sherrilyn Kenyon. I read Fantasy Lover rather quickly and as I read more of her books I became completely obsessed with the Dark Hunters. I could go on and on about them--I'm not so much into the love story aspect of each of the Dark Hunter books, but of the culture and hierarchy of the Hunter's themselves--the way Sherrilyn has used ancient history to form their present.
**as I am sitting here thinking about it, I think there is even a series I started reading before Anne Rice. It was the Vampire Chronicles, I think. It was a series of four books about a high school girl in Virginia who met a vampire attending her school(remember I was, in fact, in high school at the time). The four books went through their relationship. I want to say their names were Elena, Stephan, and Damon(Stephan's brother). Does anyone else remember those? I think I still have them somewhere.
Booking Through Thursday
Reach out a hand, and grab the book that is closest to you. Turn to page 231, or pick a page at random if the book isn't that long. Locate the first sentence of the last paragraph on that page.
This week's questions were suggested by Kim.
