I never got around to answering last week’s BTT question on account of the fact that I was busy with festivities and then I conducted an impromptu camp out in front of Office Depot for some Black Friday sales. But I’m back in the game this week. This week’s question is about getting on a roll with books:

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…

Oh hell yeah, definately. I’ve been known to finish one book and then search for other works by that author and books of a similar interest and genre. For example, when I finished reading one of LKH’s Anita Blake novels awhile back, and was dissapointed, I went off in search of other books with a butt-kicking female that takes no crap from nobody. Completely by chance I stumbled upon Kim Harrison’s Dead Witch Walking which I devoured and then I found Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Other Wold series and ten eventually Marie Brennan’s Doppelganger. Loosely related, but in some ways you have to squint to see the similarities.

Likewise, reading Lackey’s Alta eventually led me to give Paolini’s Eragon a try. Getting on a roll is very commonplace for me.