I Pulled On My Crabby Pants

Just now. I did. Because look at what I found! LOOKIT!

A 4th Matthew Swift book!

I thought there were 3. I'm not sure why I only thought there were 3 because I swear I've seen this cover before. But I was CERTAIN there were only 3.
But there are 4.
Why does this make me crabby, considering how extensively I adore this series? I don't know. I really don't. I should be thrilled because Matthew Swift is exciting! fun! interesting! peculiar! But... but I... I have so MANY books to read...

And I'm stupid so I pick up a book that I KNOW will have follow-ups (if they aren't already sitting on the shelf when I buy the book). So EVEN THOUGH I have like, 8 dozen books waiting to be read, I keep buying books under the assumption that EVENTUALLY I'll get to finish a series and be able to stop buying that line of novels. At least that's the theory.

So I guess I'm not really crabby that there's a 4th MS book, making my trilogy a quad. For all that, this won't be the end either, and I'm getting caught up in another "epic" like Anita Blake by Laurell K Hamilton. Unlikely, but altogether possible. I wouldn't fight it I guess. I might learn to be excited about it again.  I just buy too many books. hahaha.


I'm surprised by how much I'm reading lately.
I picked up Fury's Kiss, the 3rd Dorina Basarab book by Karen Chance when I went home for Thanksgiving and I already finished it. (=  Huzzah! I suppose I should blog about it for you, eh?

Except that I seem to be discussing series in groups lately considering that I'm sort of attempting to close them and it's better to just start from the top, eh?  Maybe. It's more informative anyway.  Kinda spoils some of the surprises if you intend to read them, but when all of the books are already published you don't REALLY worry about the main character(s) dying off every time they're in trouble. Hello; there's three more books to go. =P But the reason I say "except" is because it's been like, ~2 years or something since I read the last one and I don't even really remember what happened in it. I mean I sort of do, but... not THAT well.

The Neon Court (Kate Griffin) and A Trace of Moonlight (Allison Pang) should show up in the mail tomorrow, hopefully. They were SUPPOSED to get here today, but I live in North Dakota, so 2-day shipping is kind of a farce. hahaha. Oh well. I'm excited anyway.

I also need to go pick up books #17 and #18 in my Anita Blake series, since I'm starting in on #16, Blood Noir. I'm ALMOST caught up. Almost. I feel like I'm spacing them out a bit more with my other literature so that I can keep having material to catch up to without having to constantly wait for the next one, you know? So that I have a steady stream of Anita Blake at my disposal, whether I'm actively reading it or not.

I'm still waiting for that next Merry Gentry book that she promised us. Book 7, which was supposed to be the end, was too damn open-ended. There HAS to be another SOMETIME. Hopefully, anyway. hahaha.

Wasn't I just saying I need to stop buying books...?