Wow! I have been wanting to put the
pen to paper for awhile now, (well since I saw my baby sister’s blog
cataloguing her time in Europe, it really is amazing check it out: http://ef-flo-res-cence.blogspot.com)
primarily so that I have an outlet to share my thoughts on all of the books
that I read. My husband is becoming incredibly bored with hearing about them;
he’s not really a reader (I judge him for it) so writing about them is good way
for me to get my thoughts out there without annoying the crap out of him. In
addition to describing and reviewing the books I read, I also wanted a place
where my friends can recommend new books to me and give me their opinion of a
book we’ve both read. I think that’s the beauty of books, different people can
dive into the same book and share in the magic of having experienced that book
together. I think that’s part of the allure of the Harry Potter series (along
with it being the most amazing set of books ever written); I can connect
instantly with anyone who has read the books because we have already shared an
experience together.
Anyways, I feel like I’ve been in a
reading frenzy lately because the last three years of my life have been so centered
on law school and, along with sucking the soul right out of you, it really
curbed any desire I had to read for pleasure. So now I feel like I’m making up
for lost time and have literally been reading any book that I can get my hands
on. I’ve started a lot of book series because apparently that’s what hot right
now, but I haven’t finished any of them. I’m really odd because I like to savor
stuff, like with my meals I always save my favorite foods for last. This always
turns out to be a horrible idea because it’s usually cold or I’m full by then,
but I do it every time and that’s how I am with book series, I want to keep the
series going for as long as I can.
I recently started Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series (damn these young adult novels nowadays so good and addictive!), Charlaine Harris' Sookie
Stackhouse novels because I’m in love with True Blood, and Geroge R.R. Martin’s
Game of Thrones series. I’ve only read the first book of the Stackhouse novels,
Dead Until Dark, and the first two of the other ones and I'm enjoying them all. Everyone’s been telling
me not to wait to read Mockingjay, the last book in The Hunger Game series, but
once I read it that’s it, sayonara Katniss, so I plan on waiting a little
longer before I finish it off.
I just started reading Julian
Barnes’ Sense of an Ending for my law gal’s book club and I’ll give you my take
on it after I finish it. Normally, I don’t think I’ll be posting unless I’ve
finished a book and have something to say about it but I wanted to get this
thing going while I had a second.
More to come. B
