Books, Books & More Books

I love books, and I love to read. I've noticed a pattern with my reading habit. I won't touch a book for two or three months, and then I'll read four or five books in less than a month. This has been the case since Christmas.

Hank gave me 'One for the Money' by Janet Evanovich for Christmas. My sister gave me 'The Hunger Games' trilogy. My friend gave me 'City of Ashes' which is the second of a series. She had given me the first book last spring for my birthday. Joe gave me the Sarah Palin book, and a book from Rebecca Wells, who wrote 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'....... it's safe to say, that I received a lot of books for Christmas.

I read  'One for the Money' first. The movie comes out next weekend, and I wanted to read the book before I go see it. It was an easy read. I liked it. I decided that I'd more than likely read the rest of the series, since there's so many. I picked up 'Two for the Dough' at our junk store for like a buck. Big Lots had #15 in hardback for $3. So, I picked it up, too. Then, Joe and I had gone to the flea market to get Hank a comic box, and one of the booths was completely going out of business. All books were twenty-five cents!! What? That's crazy!! I dug around and found eight more of the series, some were hardback that looked as if they had never been read. 8 books for $2.00. Score!! Now, I have 10 of the 18. Most are in sequence, too. I'll get the others here and there. I'm saving these to read this summer when we're in the car, on the houseboat, etc.

After 'One for the Money' I decided to read 'City of Ashes'. I had read the first in the series last spring, and it was good. I'm not typically a YA reader, even though I'm guilty of reading 'The Twilight Saga'-- Don't judge!! My friend, Saundra, is a die-hard YA person. She had said that I'd like the books, and I did. So much so, that when I finished the second one, I went ahead and picked up the third book.

I like to read books in order if at all possible. It's part of my OCD tendencies. So, I was saving 'The Hunger Games' trilogy until I had time to read all three. Everyone that I know who has read them said they are great books, and there's a lot of hype and buzz about the movie coming out in March, so I wanted to make sure I had them all read before then. I started 'The Hunger Games' on Monday, and finished it Thursday. I started 'Catching Fire', the second book yesterday when I took my lunch break, and I think I'll have it done before Monday morning.

At this rate, I'm going to need another bookshelf.