The other day I mentioned that I had been experiencing the reading blahs. As it turns out, I'm not alone. Before my post I had already heard from a couple of friends that they too were going through the reading blahs, and these are friends I consider to be heavy readers (i.e. read upwards of a book a day) which makes the whole reading blahs thing that much stranger. After my post on Thursday I heard from more people who were also experiencing the same thing. Could this be a nationwide epidemic? If so, I think I have the cure.

On Saturday I decided to hit the bookstores. After all, what better way to beat the blahs than to surround yourself with the thing you aren't all that excited about (think of it as a twist on immersion therapy). And I didn't hit just one or two stores. Oh no. I managed to take in four bookstores before my brain said no more. It was a regular book buying bonanza. I scored so many good books, and at one store I managed to find several things that aren't even suppose to be out yet. I debated about buying them (as I know how frustrated authors can get about bookstores that put books out early), but I gave into temptation I bought them anyway.

At lunch I finished the first of my freshly purchased books: Charmed & Dangerous by Candace Havens. I think I might be in love with this book (or at the very least serious like). Have you ever had one of those reading experiences where you read a book and really enjoyed it, but when you thought about the book later or were talking to others about it you realized that you really, really liked it. I had that kind of experience awhile back when I read Shanna Swendson's Enchanted, Inc., and now I'm having the same experience with this one. Does that ever happen to you?

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