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I'm doing an awful lot of re-reads of favorite authors these days, while waiting for a couple of new releases (agency books), also by favorite authors who I know won't disappoint. For a book club, I'm currently reading an indy book, a mystery - it has a zillion 5-star reviews, but I just can't get engaged with it. I find I don't really care whodunit, and the detective, rather than being engaging (a Buddhist monk turned cop turned PI) is annoyingly superficial.
The only indy books I find I really enjoy are by authors who started out with publishers (Courtney Milan ftw) and went indy.
But agency isn't any predictor of quality either. Either I've just hit a dry streak, or even the agency books I've purchased have been either depressing (I'm awful sick of vampires and post-apocalyptic futures, be they never so lyrically written) or outright boring.
so - I re-read. If you look at my ticker below, you'll see that I have a huge book habit, but that's money staying in my pocket.
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