I just did a rough count on the number of books mentioned by Fantasy Book Critic in his May Spotlight. Why am I counting books you might ask? It is a slightly strange thing to be doing on a Saturday. But this Saturday I’ve been making lists. List of books. Lots of books and I haven’t really finished yet. Seeing as a big part of this blog is promotion both of books, authors, and other book blogs where you can find out about more books.
At the moment I’ve counted 31 books that have been or will be released in the UK that take my fancy. That’s one a day? And it can take me anything from a couple of days to a couple of weeks or longer to read a book. So there are always choices to make. And for someone who walks into a shop what are they supposed to choose?
I’m not sure why but this has me slightly disturbed. What books am I missing out on whilst trying to catch up with the massive flow of books that has already passed and those that are yet to come? I guess that’s why people stick within their comfort zone as it is quicker and easier to read someone or a genre that you are familiar with than challenge yourself to read heavy sci-fi when you’ve only really read urban fantasy….
Anyway, I’ll have a post shortly with my picks for May and I hope that you find a few that you’ll want to spend time with and give a good home to.
Loading ...