Mind candy

[bibliogramma]

I have been buried in books since Christmas morning. It's been wonderful.

One of my favourite writers of what I call mind candy is Mercedes Lackey. Please understand that this is not a derogatory term. I love mind candy. It's a total indulgence in the kind of stories that are just plain fun, without having to be "good for you" in any way. I've read most of Lackey's earlier books at one point or another, but she's so damned prolific that there's always three or four new ones hanging around, and I don't actually have in my library all the older ones I have read.

So my dear partner glaurung bought me vast numbers of Mercedes Lackey books for Christmas (among other wonderful book surprises).

Since Christmas, I've happily indulged myself in the frothiest mind candy, and it has been a wonderful time.

Lackey re-reads:
Arrow's Fall (last volume of the Talia trilogy - I already had the first two)
Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise (first two volumes of the Vanyel trilogy - already had the last one)
Winds of Fate, Winds of Change (first two volumes of the Mage Winds trilogy - already had the last one)
The Black Gryphon (first volume of the Mage Wars trilogy - I'm currently in the middle of The White Gryphon and still have The Silver Gryphon to read from my Christmas bounty)

New reads:
Owlflight, Owlsight, Owlknight (Damian trilogy)
Joust (first volume of her Dragon Jousters series)

And there's a Diana Tregarde waiting for me to re-read as well - Burning Water.

Mind candy.

Bounce, bounce.
Yum.

Comments

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear, I didn't mean to do that. I'm 53 (or I will be in a month and a half). I hope to be around for quite some time to come (at least long enough to read all the books on that booklist of mine, plus the ones I keep adding to it).

It's more that as one ages, one's sense of mortality becomes more present, even if it's still in all likelihood decades away. I know that, even if it's a goodly chunk of time, that it is a finite amount, in a way that I didn't know when I was younger. So I make my choices with more of an eye as to whether or not there is something I would rather be doing with my time.