I finally found the time to update my list of books. I read quite a few since I added some to the list the last time. But I need to admit that I really don’t feel like writing a review for them. I should really start doing that as soon as finish one, would make a lot more sense, because it is still fresh in my mind. Maybe I do better with that in the future.
I started with the Game of Thrones series now. Actually this is nothing I would read or buy out of own ambition, but Nathan Fillion (actor, Castle, Firefly, Serenity…) speaks so excitedly about the series – also because of the TV show – that I just had to give it a try. I am in the middle of the first book and already come across one main problem I have with such books – too many people. I sometimes feel my head cannot deal with stories that tell around many people and their relationships to each other. It confuses me. But so far I pretty much like it, however, by now, I don’t understand the massive hype, yet.
I also still have Ken Follet’s Fall of the Giants in progress. I think I would already be through with it for a while if this wasn’t a huge and heavy hardcover book. I just cannot take it with me, it is too uncomfortable to hold in the train or bus, also it is hard to carry it around with me all the time, because of the weight. So far I like it better than Game of Thrones and wished I could read a lot more in it. But since I don’t have it with me, the only time I am able to read it is in the evenings and normally I am too tired to read many pages. Still I hope to finish it during the remaining time of my vacation.
Referring to the subject of this post: This is one of the reasons why I don’t like hardcover books. I mean alright, they look neat in the shelf, but for actual reading purposes they are just a pain. Also they are pretty expensive. In the Fall of the Giants case it wasn’t. It had the price of a paperback and I also expected a paperback. I didn’t read that it actually was a hardcover.
The only other books that I have in hardcover are mainly Sebastian Fitzek books, because I want those the moment they are released and nowadays they are released as hardcovers first. I read them within one night anyway and don’t have to carry them around.
In short: I am glad my list of books is up to date again and I still have quite a few on my SUB.
