reading series

[Keri]

Reading book series is similar to watching a TV series. Sometimes we are immediately drawn to them but sometimes they grow on us as we get to know the characters and they fill out and are drawn into their personalities, relationships and how they meet challenges in their lives. Recently a funny internet thing happened to me here on this site. I have recruited some family members to the site. Recently I noticed that my daughter had added a book in a favorite series as to read on here. I was thrilled and recommended she start at the beginning and I had all the earlier books I could loan her. Well it turned out she had borrowed my phone and signed in here. I later went on via my phone not noticing I was on her account and it was me who had added the book to read. Later when I was on my laptop I essentially was recommending and offering to loan myself all the earlier books of the series. :p I hate it when you see people in public who seem to be talking to themselves and are really talking on the phone. Well sometimes we get caught actually talking to ourselves. Usually we know we are doing it but sometimes we are tricked into it.

[Keri]

I am really enjoying reading series and series or just trying to read a favorite author I find that ebooks are easier to find the book you really want to read when you want to read it. Otherwise I like real books. However they also have the disadvantage of taking up room. I try to pass them on to others and don't ask for them back but that doesn't always work.

[Julian]

I live in rural Asia, English language hard copy books are there but ordering in is difficult, especially if you're chasing a series.
eBooks make it all so much easier.

[Keri]

I am completing the Mary Russell/Beekeeper's Apprentice Series now after reading some regular non-historic mysteries.

[Keri]

I had been reading a lot of courtroom or legal mysteries but then my favorite historical mystery series came out with the latest book To Die but Once. Now I have found another historical mystery series that I hadn't read before A Famine of Horses. I am now reading the second book of the series. It was interesting that the 1st book had a foreword by another favorite historical mystery writer Sharon Kay Penman. Well she is an author of historical literature but has one of the best historical mystery seriesThe Queen's Man. Any one read any of these series? How about the Sir Richard Carey Mystery series. He is the "Robin" favorite of Queen Elizabeth. I was in the mood for a good historical mystery and found a whole series.

[Julian]

I'll certainly take a look at them now Keri, I'm currently betraying the genre with a fantasy, one of Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series.

[Keri]

The Merchant's House This series by Kate Ellis provides a twofer with a modern mystery set in modern Devon England and a related historical mystery. The detective has a degree in archaeology. There are 24 books in the series and I am on #6. A great main character is enriched with an ensemble of friends, family, boss and fellow detectives. I nice find I must say.