Category: Random

Ok, I’ll admit that the title is a bit or totally misleading. But this post is mainly about me reading series. I of cause don’t know how you do it, you tell me?

Nothing is set in stone for me when it comes to reading series, sometimes I do this and sometimes I do that. But I do tend to have a few habits.

Depending on how long the series I’ll reread the whole thing again before reading the new book.

That can be a long process. Again it not solid but I would say that if the series is five books or more I won’t reread the all the books again. BUT, if it’s really good and I have it on my ‘To read again list’ I might just read all the books once again up til the new one but I don’t tend to do that whit longer series, I’ll read the new book and then revisit the whole thing again some other time when I feel like it. I do have a few favourite books that I’ve read multiple times, but I don’t do that much because there are so many books to be read. I’ve even had books in a serie where I only read one books out of the all, because that books was better than the other or I liked the story so much. But even then I makes sense because you know the story from the start. Now I know you might find it weird that I just read the new book, I do know the story. I think the reason for that is that I read so many books that I sometimes can’t remember every little detail or as I wrote, I just like it too much not to reread it.

Some authors will release books in a series as a stand alone, and all that is good, however I mostly fell like I’m missing out on something because they mention people or events that happened in a previous book, it may not be crucial to the story or might not even mean something yet you don’t know who the people are and how they fit in so I don’t like that. I’m not going to say I can’t look past it, it just doesn’t sit well with me.

I have read one series I think where the books were in a random oder, no #1 or #2 or whatever. It was kind of confusing and I never really understood why the author didn’t organise the books in a particular order as to be read it would have made sense and no I’m not going to tell you which series, because it’s irrelevant to this post. Maybe I have book OCD or something, I like them to be in order.

How do you choose the books you read?

It’s both and easy and a hard question to answer. Sometimes it pops up in my mailbox from authors I follow, I subscribe to their newsletter. Sometimes I find books on Facebook in various groups that I follow. Sometimes I get the interest from Goodreads, either by searching for books that has similar interest to what I like to read and sometimes just random books that pop-up in the news feeds or liked by other people.

Now I guess that was the easy part, not so easy if you ask me. Finding books that I like is not THAT easy. Because once you find them you will have to choose if that book is for you. Authors you know is kind of an easy pick – I tend to use the keywords that describe the books, if it says anything about paranormal I avoid them like the plage, some people like them, I don’t. I think it the whole Tvillight face, I’m so over it. If the books has been published I usually read the reviews from other readers, I always try to read some of the good (5 stars) and some of the less good (1 or less star) reviews, sort of to get the whole picture.

Does other people affect my opinion? Not really. Just like with people I try to from my own opinion about things, books included. I just use the reviews as as guidline.

Covers ect.

Covers does’t really do it for me, sure a hot cover doesn’t really turn me off. But as the saying goes: Don’t judge the book by it cover 🙂 So true if you ask me. A cover can do a lot of things visually, but it doesn’t say much about the content, does it? A cowboy and a cop. Maybe you can guess that they are the main characters of the story, but the storyline is not a part of the cover and nor do I think it should be, it really just is something to catch your eye. I’m not going to pretend that I totally ignore the cover that would probably would be an outright lie. When I scroll down over a list of books, hmmm I see something interesting. I guess that corespond pretty well with what I wrote – it catches your eye. But again I would choose a book from the cover alone. Descriptions are important to me, that’s what I mainly choose from I guess, does that sound like something I like.

A few authors are must read for me. Should I tell you who? Nah! I don’t think so. However being my favourite authors that doesn’t automatically equals a good review, I read both good and bad books by the same author. A must read for me is just the same as, I generally like their books/their stories, so yes they do tend to get a good review, just don’t think that it’s because they are who they are, it is because they are good writers.

So how do you choose your books?