But fear not, gentle reader, the heroine of this daring quest will not fail you yet.
As soon as this semester is over (May 11th), I will be retroactively posting my stats and comments for the books I have not yet discussed here (there are at least four). Then, all bets are off (or back on again? I'm not really sure how this idiom makes sense).
I plan to kick off my summer reading with something antithetical to what I have been reading (it might help if I told you that I just finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road in a single, two hour sitting). I'm looking for fast paced, funny, and all around entertaining. Carrie Vaughn is all of those things and more. I already read book one of her Kitty Norville series (Kitty and the Midnight Hour) either in December or January (and since I can't remember which I can't count it on this blog). So, I will start the summer with book two: Kitty Goes to Washington.
There. Now I've got something to look forward to, and you've got my slightly tarnished word as a Book Worm.
I often turn to Urban Fantasy when I'm in a reading slump, because it tackles important and current issues in such an irreverent, interesting, edge-or-your-seat thrill ride sort of way. It's an intriguing cultural product (one that isn't too far afield from the topic of my Master's Thesis: crime fiction, specifically female detectives) that is thought provoking without being consciously so. I love it. Words you never expected to hear from an English major, I know.
I've been known to read Urban Fantasy novels in a day or less. I chain read. It's like chain smoking but better for your lungs and worse for your eyes. You never know, I may read the whole series in a week (there are 11 right now, and that would put me almost 1/4 of the way to my minimum goal).
The Bookworm
