I just spent a while entering all my books-read in for Saturday’s monthly reading list post, so I don’t have a lot of time left for "regular" blogging. One thing I thought interesting, though? I needed to look into my archives from last year for something and, since I was going by, I was curious about what I was blogging about last year.

Well, my post from a year ago yesterday looks pretty similar to my post from yesterday–even to the picture of my knitting bag and mentioning Cate.

Now, because it’s Thursday and I haven’t done one of the BTT questions in a couple weeks….

Do you get on a roll when you read, so that one book leads to the next, which leads to the next, and so on and so on?

I don’t so much mean something like reading a series from beginning
to end, but, say, a string of books that all take place in Paris. Or
that have anthropologists as the main character. Or were written in the
same year. Something like that… Something that strings them together in
your head, and yet, otherwise could be different genres, different
authors…

I DO get on rolls and sometimes find it interesting the way my brain connects one book to the next, how, as I’m reading one book, there’ll be another in the back of my head, waving its hand, saying, "Me next! Pick me!" Even when it seems completely unlike the book I’ve got open in front of me–sometimes the connection is obvious, like Victorian mysteries, or something like that–but sometimes, the only apparent connection is something only my subconscious knows.

The only drawback to getting on a roll with the book-selection thing? When it finally comes to an end, I feel totally bereft and "bookless," because I have such a hard time finding whatever I want to read next!

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