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I just got done reading 2 different series from Holly Lisle, both good reads. Read Rhiannons Ride by Kate Forsyth, fairly good quick read. I’m in the middle of Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars series…um, what else…Ofcourse eternally waiting for George RR Martin to get off his bum and finish A Dance With Dragons…Jennifer Roberson’s Karavans series has been excellent, I’m looking forward to the next one.
I burn thru books when I like them 😆
ghostndragon wrote:The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. They are excellent!
I’m on the last one of that series… I hate finishing series. Then I have to think of another series to read. Poo.
Or another book… but then I have to think sooner, rather then later.
Does anyone else get depressed when they finish a series? I actually get sad when I finish up a series. It’s like saying goodbye to good friends. I know I’ll find another series I like just as much, but I still want to know what happens to these characters I have fallen in love with!
Like with this last Holly Lisle series…Do Lauren and Molly succeed in fixing the entire world chain? Does Molly get a new soul? What happens between Lauren and Pete? What role is Jake going to play in the future? What about Baanraak and Molly, do they work for good or end up going evil??
See, I still wanna know more 😆
Recently read Faefever by Karen Marie Moning, part of a series about fae and ancient magic in the modern world. Her writing style is very catchy and it’s getting really dark and interesting. 🙂 (Be warned though, heavy sexual content). And am slowly working my way through Bone, a surprisingly endearing epic fantasy graphic novel.
Am trying very hard right now to NOT buy Twilight, as I just know I’ll end up ditching all my work and reading all night…
And yes, it’s very depressing to finish a series. I still need to get off my butt and just read the last Sandman already! But I don’t want to see it end…
asinnamon wrote:Does anyone else get depressed when they finish a series? I actually get sad when I finish up a series. It’s like saying goodbye to good friends. I know I’ll find another series I like just as much, but I still want to know what happens to these characters I have fallen in love with!
Like with this last Holly Lisle series…Do Lauren and Molly succeed in fixing the entire world chain? Does Molly get a new soul? What happens between Lauren and Pete? What role is Jake going to play in the future? What about Baanraak and Molly, do they work for good or end up going evil??
See, I still wanna know more 😆
Yes….. lol
Tally Mark wrote:Am trying very hard right now to NOT buy Twilight, as I just know I’ll end up ditching all my work and reading all night…
Yes it is that kind of book! 🙂
Dragonsrest wrote:Tally Mark wrote:Am trying very hard right now to NOT buy Twilight, as I just know I’ll end up ditching all my work and reading all night…
Yes it is that kind of book! 🙂
My friend and I were taking bets, at the release party of Breaking Dawn, how many of the people who had pre-ordered a copy would finish it before the sun came up 😉
asinnamon wrote:Does anyone else get depressed when they finish a series? I actually get sad when I finish up a series. It’s like saying goodbye to good friends. I know I’ll find another series I like just as much, but I still want to know what happens to these characters I have fallen in love with!
Me too! It’s so sad. Sometimes I miss them so much I go looking for fanfics to comfort me. XD That usually doesn’t work out so well. 9.9; An exception would be when I read all four of the Twilight Saga books in short order, but strangely, was not sad about the ending in the 4th book (I had no idea there was going to be a 5th one at the time). It was a very comfortable conclusion, and did not leave me wondering much. Not sure why, because they definitely had some issues to work out. Just nothing I was particularly interested in, apparently. And I have yet to have any interest in looking at any fanfics for those books. I suppose I felt quite ‘fulfilled’ by them, lol.
I get the same way with TV shows, especially when I buy the entire series at once (Alias and Stargate, for example), and then watch the thing in order, like 1 or 2 episodes a night. I get very attached to the characters, and am so depressed when it ends. XD I guess because you know that if it was real, life WOULD go on. But you just don’t get to see it. >.>!!
I do enjoy Stargate & Alias fanfics. =DP.S. – I loved the Twilight Saga. I agree, it’s something you can’t put down. >.> Before the fourth book came out, I was like, whatever, that’s some tweenie version of a vampire romance novel (and there is quite a proliferation of those these days, isn’t there?), and had no interest in it. Then someone else I worked with told me it was good, and the movie trailer was not, so I gave it a chance, because we had a used copy at the time. =) I’m really glad I did! I have the collector’s edition of the first book on order. <3
P.P.S. – I will probably go and see the movie anyways. I’m not sure if I want to go right away, and be amused by all the little teenage girls fainting & giggling at the sight of Edward b/c Kyaaa, he’s so dreamy, etc…or if I want to wait a few weeks, and watch it in peace and quiet.
Stephan R Lawhead
I love his books. Read the Arthurian series last year and now I’m reading his Welsh version of Robin Hood aka King Raven
http://www.stephenlawhead.com/books/kitsunelady wrote:asinnamon wrote:Does anyone else get depressed when they finish a series? I actually get sad when I finish up a series. It’s like saying goodbye to good friends. I know I’ll find another series I like just as much, but I still want to know what happens to these characters I have fallen in love with!
Me too! It’s so sad. Sometimes I miss them so much I go looking for fanfics to comfort me. XD That usually doesn’t work out so well. 9.9; An exception would be when I read all four of the Twilight Saga books in short order, but strangely, was not sad about the ending in the 4th book (I had no idea there was going to be a 5th one at the time). It was a very comfortable conclusion, and did not leave me wondering much. Not sure why, because they definitely had some issues to work out. Just nothing I was particularly interested in, apparently. And I have yet to have any interest in looking at any fanfics for those books. I suppose I felt quite ‘fulfilled’ by them, lol.
I get the same way with TV shows, especially when I buy the entire series at once (Alias and Stargate, for example), and then watch the thing in order, like 1 or 2 episodes a night. I get very attached to the characters, and am so depressed when it ends. XD I guess because you know that if it was real, life WOULD go on. But you just don’t get to see it. >.>!!
I do enjoy Stargate & Alias fanfics. =DP.S. – I loved the Twilight Saga. I agree, it’s something you can’t put down. >.> Before the fourth book came out, I was like, whatever, that’s some tweenie version of a vampire romance novel (and there is quite a proliferation of those these days, isn’t there?), and had no interest in it. Then someone else I worked with told me it was good, and the movie trailer was not, so I gave it a chance, because we had a used copy at the time. =) I’m really glad I did! I have the collector’s edition of the first book on order. <3
P.P.S. – I will probably go and see the movie anyways. I’m not sure if I want to go right away, and be amused by all the little teenage girls fainting & giggling at the sight of Edward b/c Kyaaa, he’s so dreamy, etc…or if I want to wait a few weeks, and watch it in peace and quiet.
HAHA! I’m starting Book 3 this weekend. I devoured book 1, but book 2 had a spot that sort of opened a very sore wound for me far more than expected and I ended up crying my eyes out after reading it. So, I put the book down for 2 weeks so I could actually get work done and compose my self to go back and be able to read some more and enjoy what I was reading. I have to say I love the movie soundtrack though. I do have to find it amusing that ‘Cedric Diggory’ is playing Edward. So, he died in HP and became a Vampire! 😆 Some of the characters look different than how I pictured them (Carlisle as a blonde ?!? James’ hair looks too neat and tidy – pictured it a bit more disheveled, Esme is shorter and more modern faced than I pictured, Emmett I pictured with different hair – not quite so short, etc.), but some are spot on for me (Rosalie, Victoria, Jasper, Alice, Laurent works – not how I pictured him, but he works nicely).
Can you tell I want to see the movie 😉
The fifth book is essentially the first book, but from Edward’s perspective, so the story is essentially over.I guess those are the only books I’m reading at the moment, then I may try to take care of some books I’ve had around the house I need to finish.
I’m wondering if Stephenie Meyer will even finish Midnight Sun since she was so upset about it being leaked. I’d be pissed too.
But I picked up three books today:
Foundation by Merceded Lackey
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
The Way of Shadows by Brent WeeksIn the midst of reading:
Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
Lucinda by Sunny
Living With the Dead by Kelley Armstrongand looking at the other 34 books I have to read all piled beside my bed. 😆
I usually read by author. I find an author I like and then go out and ready everything they’ve written.
I started out with J G Ballard, Asimov, Heinlein, Philip K Dick, William Burroughs, Michael Moorcock, and wended my way pretty thoroughly through the speculative fiction field.
When I learned that Giles Gordon (better known as a literary agent than as an author, but whose handful of novels and stories had affected me tremendously when I read them in the 1970s) had died, and that he’d written a sort of autobiography that I’d not known about, I acquired a copy. I read that, and upon learning that his favourite author was Fay Weldon, as both a person and as an author, I had to see what her stuff was like.
And she is very good, and she has been somewhat more prolific than Giles Gordon was. I have so far read only half a dozen out of the 30-odd books of hers that I’ve managed to get hold of, so I still have months to go. It’s a good feeling.
Fay Weldon writes about women and their relationships with others. Not always favourably to the women, but rarely favourably to the relationships, particularly if those relationships are with men. She also writes with flair and humour, though often the humour is ironic or twisted in some delightful way.
I suppose the consistent theme is: how do women survive and thrive in a patriarchy. The answer is that sometimes they don’t; sometimes they just make the best of it and the best can be pretty bad.
I really wish I had started reading Fay Weldon’s books in the 1970s. I count myself as being a male feminist, but I have never understood the male/female relationship enough to know what that meant. Fay Weldon opens up a whole set of worlds that I had no clue about.
I think I’d have been a better person had I been reading these novels and stories as they came out, so that I could reflect on them and learn from them as I matured.
Oh well. I know that the answer to “Better late than never” is “Says who?” But, in this instance, it’s “Says me”.
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