Getting too attached to your series? Being there, done that

Have you ever left your office earlier, have you ever been late for meeting a friend or, stayed home on Friday night only to watch your favorite TV series? When you have 1) a good cast, 2) good writers and 3) a good story, it is incredible how much you can get psycho-attached to a series.  

I really miss Mega upload. I followed Desperate Housewives, The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones and Grey’s Anatomy with religious discipline. Then, my Mega friend disappeared and I almost (literally) died. Until I found other pages which seemed to be harmless. I mean, they really looked friendly and for around a month, I was able to continue my sick habit. But, one day one of these friendly pages left me a not so friendly virus. :-§

Yeah! I know! I work in a software company and I should have been more careful. But, Damon kissed Elena and she kissed him back!!!!!!  I HAD to see the next episode. Oh, well.  Virus is away, I have found recaps of Vampire Diaries on www.heroesandheartbreakers.com  Yes! I like to read about what others what reading! So what! Mind your own business!

With the rest of the series, I guess I will have to wait a year until the new season comes to Germany or just buy them on Amazon. Does anybody out there understands how I feel? How can I live without watching hot vampire brothers? How can I survive a night without crying with Meredith and Derek? And what will happen when winter finally comes?

Re-read books with a new perspective

People who know me well are aware of how MUCH I like to read and how MUCH time I spend on it. Re-reading is something I have been doing my whole life. I cannot tell how many times I have read The Mother (Pearl S. Buck), Little Women (Louise M. Alcott) or the Twilight novels (ehem...)

Reading a book for the first time is a defining moment: either you like it or you hate it. And it is almost not possible to change your opinion about it afterwards. But, reading it for a second time -or more- gives you insights about the characters that you probably did not discover the first time; it helps you understand the surroundings, the space in which the story takes place. For example, The Likeness, by Tana French: When I was sure they were gone, I shut the door and stood still in the hallway, listening to the empty house. I could feel it settling, a long whisper like shifting sand, to see what I would do now. Isn't that a great way to describe an empty house? She could have just said: "The house was empty"...

Lately, thanks to our dear S. Meyer and her vamp novels, I have devoted a lot of time to the paranormal genre (urban fantasy, pararnormal romance, supernatural fiction). And... I have noticed I don't exactly enjoy them so much anymore. There is a lot of hype in these genres and now any dumbass teen romance novel is sold as a new-age goth fiction as good as to even rival with Anne Rice's works.

Anyways, I have to decided to re-read all my paranormal books and to evaluate them/analyze them in a intellectual manner and either put them back on the bookshelf or send them directly to ebay (Gotta get the money back)

Sure enough, I will keep Kristin Cashore's books as well as Suzanne Collins'. But the rest, who knows?