Who else rations series books? There have been a few series that I've read very slowly over time since they are so very good; I save them for a special treat. Four that occur to me offhand are the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian, which I read over the course of eight years and sadly am done; the Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser which I've been reading since 2016 and where I've still got a few in hand; the Judge Dee series by Robert van Gulik; and the Martin Bora books by Ben Pastor, which is still ongoing so my method is to stay at least one behind the latest release.*
There are other series, especially mystery series, where I pace myself but there isn't quite the same sense that a pleasure deferred is all the greater even though I will be very sorry indeed to read the end. With these, I read one when I'm in the mood. The Nero Wolfe books by Rex Stout and the Albert Campion books by Margery Allingham are examples. I don't binge, ever. Too high a likelihood of a loved series going stale on me.
So do you ration? Binge? Somewhere in between? And for which noteworthy series, if you've a mind to name some.
*Sigh. Some of the rationing with these is involuntary. The books exist,
in English, but they are released at an excruciatingly slow pace. The author is a native Italian speaker who writes them in English,
someone else! translates them into Italian and then they're released in Italy. The most recent book, released in English last year, was originally published in 2006!
