Of Reading and Collections by Bonnie Le Hamilton

 

There is nothing like losing track of what day of the week it is, let alone forgetting you have stuff that needs to be done.

I’m sorry for the late post, but I didn’t even realize it was Wednesday until Konnie messaged me, and I wasn’t even awake at the time.

My sleep schedule is all messed up right now. I woke up early and got breakfast for myself and my cat, then back to sleep. I was still asleep when Konnie decided to call. Not that I didn’t realize I needed to write something, she had already messaged me, but like I said, I was asleep.

I guess I should point out that lately, I’m lucky if I’m awake by noon. I am trying, but that starts with getting to sleep at a decent hour. So far, I haven’t managed that feat.

And I’d like to say I have been staying up so late writing, but the fact is, I’ve been reading. I’ve been doing a ton of reading. I’m talking somewhere around six or seven books a week.

Yeah, that’s a lot of reading.

For starters I managed to purchase a few new eBooks and of course I had to read them! I had been smart about it when it came to the next three books in the Miss Fortune series and I only read those three, rather than starting at the beginning again. Though the truth is, I read the first twelve books a couple of weeks ago, then I realized I had enough money to buy just three more of them.

Now I have fifteen of the twenty-eight books in that series.

After I read them, I thought about rereading one of my Linda Goodnight series’, I have something like three of those.

Then I considered that I’d read quite a few of her books last month, so I decided I should reread my Brenda Minton books. Some of those are not eBooks, so I had to dig those few hard copy books out first.

The thing is, along with a few stand-alone books, I have one series mostly in hard copy with the last two of that series in eBooks, then the next series she has takes off where that series left off, I have seven books in that series, but I’m not sure that’s all there is. I’m also already on book five of that second series.

And let me remind you that I have several other series in my possession. I also have a whole ton of Dick and Felix Francis books, and they have two series in their collection.

And I have the Percy Jackson and Harry Potter books, but both of them have more books associated with those series’ which I don’t have, yet. Emphasis on the “yet.”

Then there is my Work and the Glory books (an LDS series) and I’m still missing some of the Fishers of Men series. I’d really like to get all of them.

Actually, I don’t have all of the Fairhaven series, yet but I do have the author’s book, The Healing Place. And I wouldn’t mind rereading that one.

And let's not forget that I have the first nineteen of the Boxcar Children books. Please don’t consider getting me any of the rest, the original author only wrote the first nineteen. I’m not interested in any of the others which don’t pay attention to the timeline of the first nineteen. I read one once where Benny was still six, but they knew their great aunt, who they didn’t even meet until Benny was nine, and she as married to Andy in that book, but she didn’t marry Andy until Benny was at least eleven!

Yeah, I collect books along with Nativities or really anything depicting Christ’s life, owls, eagles, and well, Barbies. I just don’t have room to display the Barbies. I do have a lot. And being on the spectrum, I’m pretty fussy about which authors I like and which I don’t. Let alone being picky about sticking the established timeline, story.

Which is why I hate the Harry Potter movies. And it isn’t about what they left out. I understand that it is hard to condense over three hundred pages to only a one hundred and eighty pages at most, but I don’t understand taking out so much then adding in elements that wasn’t in the books! I really hate those shrunken heads. Enough said.

Anyway, Happy writing everyone.