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It's that time of year again, the summer time doldrums when I'm looking for new books and authors to read since most authors don't put out new books in the June/July time frame.

For fun, I went through my Calbre library to see which new authors I've found over the last five years. I was a bit surprised that I normally only find one or two new authors a year, or at least only one or two new authors that I buy more than a few of their books. I actually try a fair number. It's pretty common to buy a book and either not finish it or finish it and have no desire to buy more from that author. It's also common to buy an author, think not bad, buy another and by the second or third book get bored with them.

So far this summer, I haven't run across many new authors that looked interesting and none where I either finished the book or felt like buying more of their works. Hopefully that changes soon. There are a couple of authors that I got and liked, but lost track of (i.e. didn't notice they had new books out), so I'll go back and try to catch up. Both are authors that I "follow" on amazon, but new book notification on amazon seems to be very iffy.