30 Day Book Meme - Day 3

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Day 03 – Your favorite series - There are so many answers for this one, because I read quite a few series. 

There's the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, the Honor Harrington series by David Weber, the Nantucket series by SM Stirling, Star Wars (pre-switch to Del Rey), the various incarnations of Star Trek, LMB's Chalion series, the Discworld books, and Elizabeth Moon's Serrano series and Vatta's War series ...and that's just on the sci-fi/fantasy shelf. 

Mysteries tend to run to series as well: the Gaslight Mysteries by Victoria Thompson, the Amelia Peabody series, Peter Wimsey, early Robert Tanenbaum Karp and Ciampi, Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series, and The Cat Who... books. 

Let's not even open the YA box.

For favorite series, however, I'm going to go with JD Robb (Nora Roberts) and the "In Death" series.  Yes, it's like popcorn or candy for your brain.  I enjoy the range, and I love her characterizations because she does NOT overdo the characters with too many walkons, or give us the LKH treatment of page-long descriptions.  Some of them are better than others in quality and plot, and despite the series having a sort of futuristic facade (set in 2060s, with stuff like hovercars), the one that was actual sci-fi is probably my least favorite of the group.  They're an instant buy-in-hardcover, because she's never let me down yet.  I love Eve, even though in real life I'm probably more like Peabody.  :)  Yes, Roarke is pure wish fulfillment, but if you're going to dream, might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

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