Book Feast or Famine

I hate it when I am trying one book after another and I'm not liking those books.  That is a Book Famine.  On the other hand, I love it when I am on a roll, finding and reading one good book after another.  That is a Book Feast and I'm in the middle of a Book Feast!

  Some of the good series I've read lately are:

I'm in the middle of the "44 Scotland" series and I'm really enjoying these books.  The chapters were originally published as a serial story in an Edinburgh, Scotland, newspaper in daily installments, and the author admits to having been never more than two or three installments ahead.  I just finished book #3 and will pick up book #4 and #5 if they're in the library today.  

 As you may recall, I really enjoyed "The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series by the same author, Alexander McCall-Smith.  I must note here that I liked the first book in that "#1 Ladies' Detective" series, but not enough to read any other books in the series.  Then, because I was in one of those Book Famines, I picked up book #2 in that series and I was hooked.

I have really enjoyed reading the young adult "Samurai Mystery" series by the Hooblers.  It is set in ancient Japan and the story is told through the eyes of a young man who is about fourteen.  He wants to be a Samurai but because he was born into a merchant family, he has to become a merchant.  Thought a series of circumstances, he is taken under the wing of a judge who is also a samurai and he helps the judge solve mysteries.  I've read four of the six books and the local library doesn't have book #5, so I'm waiting for a used book to come from Amazon.  I think all three of my teenagers would enjoy this book.

Other than the scriptures, I almost never re-read any books.  In fact, I can probably count on one hand the number of books I've re-read in my whole life.  I read a book, enjoy it, and move on.  However, sometimes I read books that I would almost want to read again and this "Stuff" book is one of them.  It is non-fiction, written by Dr. Randy Frost, a professor of psychology and an expert on OCD and compulsive hoarding as well as the "pathology of perfectionism" and by  Dr. Gail Stekette, a professor of social work.

My sister and I have been sorting through my parents' "stuff," and therefore seeing our own "stuff" in a new light, so this Stuff book has been timely.

Well, I'm off to run errands and, of course, to stop by the library!