Apprentice Mom

Since I had children, I spend MUCH less time on the computer, reading the paper, watching the news on TV, or renting movies.  In fact, it has become so bad, that I actually feel paralyzed if I do go to rent a movie, because I have no idea what has been released in the last five years or what they are about.  One thing I haven’t given up is reading books, however, I certainly no longer have the time to go trolling for new releases from my favourite sci-fi/fantasy authors.  So, I must admit that it came as a bit of a surprise to me to find out that Stephen Donaldson has started a new (and apparently final this time) series of Thomas Covenant books.  I guess I can be forgiven for not expecting this, since the first two trilogies were published between 1977 and 1983, and then all of a sudden, the first in a series of four books was published in 2004.

Now, these books are really complex, so after I found out about the new books, I thought that I should probably re-read the old books given that 20 years or so has passed since I last looked at them.  I am REALLY glad I did this, because I would have been absolutely and completely lost in the new book if I had not.  It did get me thinking though about how tempting it is to return to books (or movies) that we know we will enjoy spending our time on.  I mean, I really do not have a lot of free time, and I would not want to waste it on a book I did not enjoy.  I know there are many, many great books out there that I would probably love, I just do not have the time to find them right now.  My friends certainly are not much help; their typical response being either that they don’t have time to read right now, or, if they do, they don’t “do” sci-fi/fantasy.   At least I still have my sister to give me recommendations…hopefully she won’t run out of ideas when it comes to books until I have more time to think up my own.

Posted on June 30th, 2010 by apprenticemom
Filed under: Yes, I read books