Prologue

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 

I have always loved books. 

I can't remember ever not loving books.

Like Ross and Rachel, we may go on a break every now and then, 

but we always find our way back to each other. 

I sometimes have very passionate feelings for these inanimate companions 

and I want to put these thoughts somewhere. Let's start from where I am now.

The book I've been reading the longest right now is The Wizard of Oz series.

Good Lord, is this long! When I worked for Borders they had some bargain

books of the entire collection of L. Frank Baum's books - it's 3 volumes. I

have been trying to make it through the first volume since July and there's

always something better that I'd much rather be reading, even if that's a 

product label on the back of my Snickers. The first - and most familiar story, 

thanks to the film - was pretty easy, but Dorothy just seems to get more 

annoying as the series goes on. For some reason she randomly drops 

syllables in words, and they aren't natural drops. The forced dialect is making 

me crazy. Even the story without Dorothy is packed with such ridiculous 

puns, you can get dizzy from the constant eye-rolls. Did children really find this 

amusing once? Maybe that's the benefit of having to wait for the next in the series. 

My to-read list is far too long for this...

On the other hand...

The book I've been reading next longest is The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey. This is 

the second in a series that began with The 5th Wave. It's been a while since I've read 

the first book. I can't tell you one thing about that book. It's some kind of alien invasion

thing. One thing I was kind of irked by while reading the Harry Potter series once upon

a time was the repetition. Each book in the series, you had to read about how Harry 

lived in the cupboard under the stairs, blahblahblah. Just get to the point, JK! Oh, how 

I miss those days. I guess a writer needs to strike a delicate balance between hammering

the audience over the head with the same information over and over again and leaving 

them out in the cold every time. However, I'm just in the beginning, so maybe that will change.

The other books I'm reading are in the Bibliomysteries series. If you are unfamiliar with

these books, I would encourage you to seek them out. They are maybe 100 pages or so by

notable authors. Some of them you will thank the god of bookbinding are short, but others

will introduce you to some authors you haven't experienced before. The one I'm on now is

the 20th in the series and is called The Nature of My Inheritance. So far, so good.

So those are my thoughts for now. Let's see how this goes.