I've been doing a fair amount of reading this month.

September:
( The books )

July:

( The list of books )

This month's books seem to cover a wide range.

( May's Books )

This month I seem to have been on a history kick. The reason for that is that while I was working in the bookstore over Christmas, I was able to buy a set of books on history at an incredble deal. Four of the five books are on this month's list.

( The list of books )

I know it's a day late. With New Year's Eve, what do you expect LOL?

December:
( The book list... )

What is considered to be the first book in a series when you are reading it? The first book the author wrote, or the first book in the chronology? They're not always the same thing.

Mercedes Lackey, for example, started writing with the Arrows set, followed by the Last Herald Mage books, but the first set in the chronology is the Mage Wars set.

L.E. Modesitt's Recluse books are another example, I believe (though I'm not sure) that the Magic of Recluse was the first book in that series to be written, but The Fall of Angels is the first in the chronology.

Or, the Darkover series of Marion Zimmer Bradley. The first book in that one is Darkover Landfall, but I doubt that it was the first book written. I think that honour goes to the Heritage of Hastur or one of those. I know I started reading this series with Exile's Song, which made a good introduction to the world and the characters.

Anne McCaffrey's books are written like that as well. Dragonsdawn was written well after Dragonflight and Dragonquest, or so I understand.

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

I'd say I've been doing a lot of reading this month :)
( The book list )

Admittedly, this one's a day late, but here's the June book list. It's a fairly long one too. There's going to be more science fiction and Andre Norton in July as well as I was at a garage sale and got about thirty books this month.

June:

( List of books )