I don't know about you but when I finish reading a book, particularly one I've loved, a fantasy land of some sort, I enter some sort of grieving process. I don't want to move straight on to another book- I want to remain with those characters in their world a while longer. It feels callous to just move on to another book straight away and I find it hard to open the first page of a new book.
It's always a delight to discover there are sequels to a series but do you guzzle them all in one go or do you wait and savour the sense of knowing that you get to return to that world for a while longer and it is still waiting whilst you haven't opened that new book?
I feel like that about the Worlds of Chrestomanci books. I adored them so much and I have only got one book left to read in the series- Mixed Magics, a set of short stories. Do I read it or do I wait? I don't want to say goodbye to Chrestomanci but I long to find out more. Similarly, having just finished "The train to Impossible Places", I am delighted to know a sequel is coming soon- well in October.
What's your attitude to this? Read all at once or savour and wait?
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
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I felt like this the first time I read "Lord of the Rings" - I thought I still had 200 pages to go, and it was appendices! I was so crushed.
ReplyDeleteHave you read the Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemison? They are future fantasy (not sci-fi). I read them all in one go - even knowing that I should savour. If I get the chance to reread them, then I savour.
Yes, I sometimes feel the same. I need time before I can move onto another book. In the bookish community they sometimes call it a book hangover or a book break up, meaning you need some time to get over it and move on.
ReplyDeleteYes, I often feel the same, somewhat bereft.
ReplyDeleteI've been known to start reading a book all over again.
I completely agree with you about this. Some books really just absorb you completely. In fact it often spurs me on to buy any sequels, so that I can continue to hang out with the characters for a bit longer.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly how I feel when I've finished a book! As for sequels, I was once given part 2 of Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles. I tracked down part 1 shortly afterwards, and while I was reading that, I found parts 3 and 4 in a charity shop in Cardigan. I binge read them one after the other! xxx
ReplyDeleteI love the Harry Potter ones and reread the whole series from start to finish every three years or so. I know exactly what you mean when you finish an amazing book.
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Yes, but not with books. I'm not much of a reader, but I get like this with TV shows. I watch a lot of Korean dramas which are usually one-off series, maybe 16ish episodes and I have such a hard time moving onto something else if I've really enjoyed it. I finished watching Romance Is A Bonus Book a week ago and can't bring myself to watch something new yet...I've picked up a couple of old ones and am rewatching those, but it's hard to leave whatever I've just watched behind. I binge them so bad when I get into them though, that's it's over too quickly!
ReplyDeleteYes, I get this. Then sometimes I will want to read but I'm still so hung up on my previous book that nothing sounds appealing. With series it depends. Sometimes I would like to read the next book immediately but I don't have access to it! But then I've had the second book in Holly Bourne's spinster club series since last year and haven't got round to reading it yet even though I loved the first one.
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