Booking Through Thursday ~ September 30th
A weekly meme about (mostly) books and reading. This week’s question is:
If you read series, do you ever find a series “jumping the shark?” How do you feel about that? And, do you keep reading anyway?
There are a few series that I follow. If I like the characters they become comfortable and are like friends, so I want to find out what is happening in their world. There may be an occasional bad book in the series and I look at that the same way as a TV show will occasionally have a stinker episode. It’s only when the character changes in ways that I don’t like that I would say it’s “jump the shark” time and so far I haven’t encountered that. I have heard that about the Scarpetta series but I’ve only read the earlier ones, which I liked, so I can’t comment.
One of my all time favorite series is Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder urban noir crime novels. Another one I really like is John Sanford’s techno-suspense Kidd novels. I haven’t seen a new one in this series in years though. And, I’ve recently discovered The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher; fantasy, magic and wizardry. I could go on, Orson Scott Card’s The Tales of Alvin Maker is another favorite, but I guess I’ve answered the question: I keep reading!
Under My Apple Tree 
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