This is a sort of a dodge. I want to write a post but really can’t bring myself to care too much about anything to write about it. Sure I could go on and on about Crossfit, but for as cool as it is, it’s way more interesting and exciting to just do it rather than write about it. So here we are with another Booking Through Thursday question…
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… [permalink]
My knee jerk, no deep thought answer is “No.”. My second thought is, “I do not like this question.”
With a bit more thought…I suppose this occurs frequently when I’m on a tech book binge. Rarely does any one web development technology live alone in perfect isolation behind a wall or on an island. So one tech book usually begets one or more books. For example, If I’m reading up on Coldfusion, SQL comes into play, as does XML, and as does XSLT. So where there was just one book, now there are three. Ah, but when you are doing SQL, you need a database. Boom – another book about databases.
Other than that – I’ve never gotten on a roll with a series of books that were of separate genres but still related somehow…not that I can tell at least without going into some 5 degrees of Kevin Bacon type analysis which I just don’t have the wherewithal to do to try and tie together: Atlas Shrugged by Rand, A Soldier of the Great War by Helprin and Chuck Klosterman IV by Klosterman.
