Let's Hop! - Book Blogger Hop (4/22/11)

It's been a while since I've hopped!  I miss interacting with everyone and the hop makes that super easy!  :)

If you haven't participated in the Book Blogger Hop before, feel free to join us!  Jennifer at Crazy-for-Books hosts this book party every week.  Just click on the logo below, read her instructions, and you're ready to go!

This week's question is:

 "If you find a book you love, do you hunt down other books by the same author?"

Yes, if I love a book, I always look on goodreads to see what else the author has written. I don't always read the books, but if they sound interesting and have good reviews I'll add them to my TBR list and probably check them out from the library.  

The author I can think of where I REALLY got into searching out their books is Tamora Pierce.  I read her first book, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness), kind of on a whim - I'd stumbled upon it in the MG section of my library and thought maybe my daughter (Alana) would enjoy it.  Way too advanced for my daughter, but once I'd started reading, I couldn't stop.  I searched online to see what else she'd written and what order the books went in.  I hadn't read a lot of fantasy before, but within a few weeks I'd read all the books based in the land of Tortall - 16 books in all.  :)  

 




Oooh!  I just realized a new paperback version of Alanna was just released this week!  It's somewhat similar to the last version released (which I like), but I seriously hated some of the original book covers, so it will be nice if they redesign the entire set.  :)

 

Tamora Pierce has also written another series titled Circle of Magic and, while it sounds interesting and I've heard it's really clean (which is always a bonus!), I haven't tried reading it yet.


How about you?  If you look up the author's other works, do you usually read them?