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I'm getting older. My memory is going. I'm a slow reader. I like books with familiar characters and worlds. I can be a little obsessive.
So I'm kind of torn. There are a few online book clubs I occasionally take part in. But my heart sinks if I see the book to be read is first in a series. Because I'll end up feeling like I 'ought' to read the rest in the series and even if I enjoy it that feels like pressure. It also leads to the memory problem.
The memory problem is that within a very short period after reading a book I'll have forgotten most of the details. Much of the broad strokes too. So inevitably I have in my TBR pile books which are the next in a series where I kind of want to go back and re-read the earlier books to refresh my memory. But that takes reading time away from new books.
I realise these are idiosyncratic reasons to be ambivalent about series but they're true for me.
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