TSS: Series

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them, and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....

On a Friday night I compiled a list of book series that I had started and have not yet finished.  Yes, I know what a fun Friday night.  But it was the first day on my four day weekend and I did not want to leave my house for any reason.  No human contact wanted, needed or required.

I put myself on a no new series ban, especially series that haven't been completed yet.

This ban is hard because it seems that series are really popular now.  Most of the book blogs that I subscribe to feature series.  And not all books in series are clearly labeled series.  I feel a little bit of disappointment when I read an synopsis and then notice that a book is part of a series.

I don't save it for later, I move on.

I have five series that I need to complete.  I don't have time to start a new one.  There is no telling when I will be able to finish it.

I also have a thing against starting series that haven't been completed yet.  I want the option to read all the books back to back.  The thought that I would have to wait to read the next book, bothers me.

On that note, I'm determined to finish off the series that I have started.

To do that, I needed to make a list.

I am putting the list here, so I won't lose it.

Vampire Huntress Legend (by L.A. Banks):

• The Wicked (Book #8)
• The Cursed (Book #9)
• The Darkness (Book #10)
• The Shadows (Book #11)
• The Thirteenth (Book #12)

Lion's Blood Series (by Steven Barnes)

• Zulu Heart (Book #2)

Nappily Series (by Trisha R. Thomas)

• Nappily Faithful (Book #4)
• Nappily in Bloom (Book #5)
• Un-Nappily in Love (Book #6)
• Nappily About Us (Book #7)

The Hollows (by Kim Harrison)

• A Fistful of Charms (Book #4)
• For a Few Demons More (Book #5)
• The Outlaw Demon Wails (Book #6)
• White Witch, Dark Curse (Book #7)
• Black Magic Sanctions (Book #8)
• Pale Demon (Book #9)
• A Perfect Blood (Book #10)

Women of the Otherworld (by Kelly Armstrong)

• Stolen (Book #2)
• Dime Store Magic (Book #3)
• Industrial Magic (Book #4)
• Haunted (Book #5)
• Broken (Book #6)
• No Humans Involved (Book #7)
• Personal Demon (Book #8)
• Living with the Dead (Book #9)
• Frostbitten (Book #10)
• Waking the Witch (Book #11)
• Spell Bound (Book #12)
• Thirteen (Book #13)

One of the things I noticed is that most of the series are paranormal.  Vampires, Witch, Werewolves, OH MY.

I don't know what my plan of attack is going to be, but I am thinking of completing the Vampire Huntress Legend first.

But we shall see.

Happy Reading!