A Reader's Addiction

Read: September 15-21, 2011 read in a week pages: 400 I'd have to say after reading the last of the series in a fairly consecutive order with little other material in between, things flowed nicely, but the repetitiveness and the name dropping did get old REAL quick. I can happily say I'm done with the series, with the exception of the prequel. I'm going to hold off reading it and read other novels for the time being. I need a bit more substance! With this novel it didn't feel like the author was grabbing at straws as much. This novel felt much closer to the first few books in the series, so I enjoyed it a bit more than the last few. Some of the plot lines were still a bit far fetched, and I did find it a bit easy that the "couple" of the past made a reappearance. I felt that was too easy in that the author could have switched things up a bit better. The Blair and Chuck coupling was a nice change of pace, for me unexpected and it worked. At first I wasn...

Read: September 9-15, 2011 read in 6 days pages: 240 Blah Blah Blah. More of the same. Name dropping, incredible and far fetched schemes that some how always manage to succeed. Thank goodness the series is nearing the end. I've had my fill.

Okay so now I'm finally caught up. I've literally read NOTHING this ENTIRE weekend. I did have a good weekend though. I spent some of yesterday shopping which was fun. Don't do that all that often and now that I'm full time well I finally have a little spending money!!! Always a plus. Also I met up with some ladies from work to celebrate a co-worker's birthday which was a good time that in a way surprised me. So I'm off to decide what I may read next. I was planning to read Anne of Green Gables this weekend but what I got from it Friday when I tried to start it....I wasn't so into it. Hmm but I have plenty of other things to read = )

Read: September 5-9, 2011 read in 4 days pages: 208 really? come on. Serena has been secretly in love with Nate this WHOLE time? I know these books are not great literature and they are not exactly deep, but I think the authorvis just grabbing a plot lines as though they are straws. it seems a bit ridiculous that even the reader has never heard an internal monologue of Serena's "realization" until the 10th book. plus wasn't it two books ago that Serena and Nate were "together"? and she never had a chance to say "i love you"? another annoyance is that now rather than span a school year or even a month like the last couple books, you know so the author can milk this series, has now become a week to two weeks at most. ugh get it over with already!

Read: September 4-5, 2011 read in a day pages: 248 Well I liked Fade, but it was not as good as the first one. It took me about 80 pages in to get hooked to this one. The narrative didn't bother me with this one since I picked this one up literally seconds after finishing Wake. I still liked the characters and their interactions with each other. I liked the development of the characters and seeing them deal with their demons. Didn't care as much for the plot line of this one as I did with the first one. Mostly with Fade what I liked was when Janie read Martha Stubin's green notebook and Janie discovers what her future will be like if she chooses the continue down the path she is currently on as a Dream Catcher. I found this very creative on the part of the writer. Intriguing, but not sure at this point if I'll want to read the third installment. I've read some reviews about the third novel and I really don't see myself reading it. Not that I tak...

Read: September 3-4, 2011 read in a day pages: 210 Really good! The narrative is strange but the story just sucked me right in. I'm so glad now that I was able to get book two Fade at the same time. I don't need to feel a withdraw I can sink right back in along with these two characters. It's heart breaking to see these two characters in their broken state intially in this book, but seeing them come together and help one another cope and heal from their individual pain was great. Cant wait to be pulled under once again!

Read: August 31-September 3, 2011 read in 4 days pages: 324 LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! Can not wait for the next three books to be translated. Intrigue and all kinds of mystery involved. I liked the cover so I picked it up, read the back and was interested when I read that the premise had time-travel. Not just time travel....but a TIME TRAVEL GENE! Okay now you have my attention, because not only now are you throwing in an interesting plot there is some serious potential of historical facts and period type action thrown in. Likable characters with some not so likable characters as well. Not that the characters are badly written, because they are not, the author just does well with making the other characters unlikable in terms of the characteristics. Nice little twist, and a teaser ending. Makes me wish I didn't have to wait til Spring 2012 for the next book in the series to be translated and released. Makes me wish MORE that I knew how to read GERMAN!