How am I reading six books right now!
I was just puttering around my goodreads account and came across my currently reading list. Six books! Yikes.
So, here's the scoop. I'm not actually reading six at once, more like three. Of course, I started the first of those sometime late last week, and wrapped three by Sunday afternoon.
I think the culprit is that I'm trying out a new "favorite" author, David Estes, and when I do that I tend to simply read everything they have to offer, and he has a bunch. I think he mentioned having something like eleven published books out there. So far I've tackled two and a half of them: Fire Country (awesome), The Moon Dwellers (exciting), and the in progress The Star Dwellers (loving it so far). Next up will be The Sun Dwellers, which will wrap up the Dwellers books.
Fire Country is actually a sister series to the Dwellers series. All of them are set in a post meteor apocalyptic future and feature strong young people as their main characters. I am particularly impressed with the strong female characters in the books I've read so far. I haven't read many books that ring true to me from a female perspective, but his do. And, as an added bonus, these stories managed to tear me away from reading The Two Towers, which isn't easy to do.
Besides the David Estes books and LOTR, I've also just wrapped up a fun little series starter, Run, Witch, Run, which features a young girl just coming into her powers dealing with uncaring adoptive parents who are over the fun of having a kid as well as mysterious stalkers who seem to be after her. A tiny blond Mountain Witch (a breed of being, rather than a profession) befriends her, but has her own secrets. As the name implies, she decides to make a run for it and hide away from all of them. I really loved how the author juggles the different perspectives. It's almost like three stories in one and they're all woven in together wonderfully.
That leaves number six, which I've just started. Since I'm on page 17 out of 700 or so, I think I'll wait to give my impressions on it. Just in case you're interested though, it's Askari: Child of Muralia Book I.
This weekend, I plan to write reviews for all the 100% read, currently reading books I have in my queue. Perhaps then it won't look like I'm an insane reading machine.
So, here's the scoop. I'm not actually reading six at once, more like three. Of course, I started the first of those sometime late last week, and wrapped three by Sunday afternoon.
I think the culprit is that I'm trying out a new "favorite" author, David Estes, and when I do that I tend to simply read everything they have to offer, and he has a bunch. I think he mentioned having something like eleven published books out there. So far I've tackled two and a half of them: Fire Country (awesome), The Moon Dwellers (exciting), and the in progress The Star Dwellers (loving it so far). Next up will be The Sun Dwellers, which will wrap up the Dwellers books.
Fire Country is actually a sister series to the Dwellers series. All of them are set in a post meteor apocalyptic future and feature strong young people as their main characters. I am particularly impressed with the strong female characters in the books I've read so far. I haven't read many books that ring true to me from a female perspective, but his do. And, as an added bonus, these stories managed to tear me away from reading The Two Towers, which isn't easy to do.
Besides the David Estes books and LOTR, I've also just wrapped up a fun little series starter, Run, Witch, Run, which features a young girl just coming into her powers dealing with uncaring adoptive parents who are over the fun of having a kid as well as mysterious stalkers who seem to be after her. A tiny blond Mountain Witch (a breed of being, rather than a profession) befriends her, but has her own secrets. As the name implies, she decides to make a run for it and hide away from all of them. I really loved how the author juggles the different perspectives. It's almost like three stories in one and they're all woven in together wonderfully.
That leaves number six, which I've just started. Since I'm on page 17 out of 700 or so, I think I'll wait to give my impressions on it. Just in case you're interested though, it's Askari: Child of Muralia Book I.
This weekend, I plan to write reviews for all the 100% read, currently reading books I have in my queue. Perhaps then it won't look like I'm an insane reading machine.
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