February - Next Book in a Series

[Stina]

I have a bunch of series I keep meaning to get back to, so this is a welcome excuse to do just that. What are your favorite book series?

[Cheryl]

Ooh, yeah!! I have multiple mystery series that are ongoing (Donna Leon is probably tops at the moment). Also the Irish Country series by Patrick Taylor (I am reading two of those at the moment -- one holiday themed - and I have several more lined up.)

[Marie-thérèse]

Yes, this should be easy and quick

[Amy]

I just checked out Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, but I think I'll turn it back in for now and use it for February.

[Cheryl]

Amy wrote: "I just checked out Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, but I think I'll turn it back in for now and use it for February."

Excellent reminder -- I shall check out which book in that series comes next and see if I have it on the shelf (I tend to pick up series books at LFLs and used book stores as I see them)

ETA -- apparently the next one for me is Thrice the Brindled Cat. Now to see if I have it.

[Marie-thérèse]

Many years ago I started a collection of Art Guides, all kinds of subjects, and part of this collection was Art by Century. For I don't remember which reason, I never got the "Art in the XVII century": I bought it only recently, and it is my book for this month to complete the serie. (the original is in Italian, I read it in a French translation)

I found a link of the English version for you https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...

[Stina]

Cheryl wrote: "Amy wrote: "I just checked out Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd, but I think I'll turn it back in for now and use it for February."

Excellent reminder -- I shall check out which b..."

Next up for me is A Red Herring Without Mustard, but I think it will have to wait for another time. The series books I've wound up with already on my February TBR are Mulled to Death, Some Enchanted Éclair, The Silkworm, A Master of Djinn, and The Bloody Sun.

[Stina]

Marie-thérèse wrote: "Many years ago I started a collection of Art Guides, all kinds of subjects, and part of this collection was Art by Century. For I don't remember which reason, I never got the "Art in the XVII centu..."

Oooh, that looks like a treat!

[Marie-thérèse]

Stina wrote: "Marie-thérèse wrote: "Many years ago I started a collection of Art Guides, all kinds of subjects, and part of this collection was Art by Century. For I don't remember which reason, I never got the ..."

Yes ! What are books for ? and Art ?

[Amy]

I did end up reading Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. It was better than the previous volume.

[Cheryl]

I have also now read Thrice the Brindled Cat and enjoyed it (although I also enjoyed the last volume). Sad ending, but Flavia goes on since there are more in the series. I may or may not proceed to the next one if I have it on the shelf.

[Cheryl]

And #8 in the Irish Country Doctor series -- Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor is now completed as well.

[C]

I'm reading Immunity, the sequel to Contagion. Like the first book, it's not necessarily doing anything particularly new and spectacular with the tropes it's using, but the first one hit all my "investigating Bad Things happening to a remote location in an environment that wants to kill you" buttons and this one has a space-jailbreak and a space-heist which are also things I'm very on board for, so I'm enjoying it.

[Jacqie]

Sounds fun!

[Jacqie]

I just finished the final book (#9) in the science fiction Expanse series, called Leviathan Falls. Feels good to finish a series!

[Cheryl]

When you read a series out of order as you come across the books, sometimes the Next Book in the Series that you haven't read is #3. For me that was Aunt Dimity's Good Deed.

[Amy]

Cheryl wrote: "I have also now read Thrice the Brindled Cat and enjoyed it (although I also enjoyed the last volume). Sad ending, but Flavia goes on since there are more in the series. I may or may not proceed to..."

It was really sad, and I was not expecting it! I think I didn't really care for the previous one because I missed Buckshaw. I love that house!

[Cheryl]

Amy wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "I have also now read Thrice the Brindled Cat and enjoyed it (although I also enjoyed the last volume). Sad ending, but Flavia goes on since there are more in the series. I may or may..."
Yes, indeed -- I started the next one and it says that Buckshaw is to be sold. I put it back down for later because I cannot bear that idea.

[Stina]

Cheryl wrote: "Amy wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "I have also now read Thrice the Brindled Cat and enjoyed it (although I also enjoyed the last volume). Sad ending, but Flavia goes on since there are more in the series. ..."

What? What?! ::sigh:: Dammit.

[Stina]

The only one I managed was Some Enchanted Éclair. Which goes some distance to explaining why I have so many unfinished series going. It's not the books' fault, I'm sure. I'm just too scattered to keep up.

[Dawn]

Soooo.... I have been reading Brian Sanderson's series The Stoplight Archive. The guy writes Bricks, for books, but they really suck me in. He is a premier world creator, and his character creations are very real-feeling, not cartoony or overly Hollywood. Incidentally... he helped finish out Robert Jordan's work on the Wheel of Time series, along with Jordan, and Jordan's son.

The Stormlight series is both a little bit of a coming of age story, as well as a nation building/ breaking political thriller, with magic thrown in for good measure.

[Andy]

Khare: Cityport of Traps, by Steve Jackson. I hard a hard time thinking of a series I was currently reading, then remembered I'd re-read the first of these gamebooks last year. Choose your own adventure, with the added twist of memorising spells and finding the artefacts to cast them with. Quite an entertaining though challenging set of encounters and puzzles.

[Stina]

Andy wrote: "Khare: Cityport of Traps, by Steve Jackson. I hard a hard time thinking of a series I was currently reading, then remembered I'd re-read the first of these gamebooks last year. Choose your own adve..."

Ooooh, that sounds cool!