Booking Through Thursday

On the workout front, I have actually worked out every day this week--alternating cardio with abs--I'm still sore but it's not as bad. I'm soldiering on :)

I took my first trip into a yarn store yesterday. I had two Knitting Pure and Simple patterns I was looking for and String had them. I put my blinders on--looking at nothing but patterns and books, went in, grabbed the two patterns, paid for them, and ran out--seriously.

Have a great weekend--Stashalongers, I'll be popping through starting tomorrow(as usual)!


Booking Through Thursday

I'm thinking here of any story that is split into more than one volume, stories such as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Rowling's Harry Potter volumes, Eddings' Belgariad, to name just a few. Christie's Hercule Perot stories do not count, nor do Gardner's Sherlock Holmes stories, as the reader can consume them in any order. Savvy?

1. Do you enjoy reading multi-volume stories? Oh yes, as long as the story maintains some consistency and doesn't get too wierd. I'm thinking of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series--I made it through the first 5 or 6 then it lost me--the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series has been getting dangerously close to doing the same thing--although honestly I'm too in love with Richard and Asher to completely bail on the series even if Anita has completely gone over the edge and is now for everything she was against at the beginning of the series(I mean who won't she sleep with--THAT should be the topic of one of the books), but I digress. I actually prefer series books to most others anymore. I find that when I read a single volume piece I'm always left with questions--there is a smaller chance of that in a multi volume work.


2. Do you prefer the shorter stories that are done in two or three volumes, or do you willingly go for longer tales? I like both--I think it's the quality of the story that keeps me reading not the length of the series.


3. What do you like/dislike about these long tales? As I said above, I don't like it when a series goes into some sort of bizarro tangent or gets too "out there". I also don't like the fact that you usually have to wait forever for the next book in the series to come out--if it's a newer one. I love the fact that you really get to know the characters(at least if the author is any good) it's always like getting together with old friends when a new book in a series comes out. I find it's much more fulfilling to reread series books as well--I always glean new information each time I reread one.