As I have shared with you before I am slightly obsessed with audio-books. And the last few months I've been hooked on an urban fantasy series (that I can write about in detail some other time). The problem now is that I'm about to start on the last book... I feel a kind of sadness and anxiety, what shall I do? Do I wait and savour the fact that I have yet one more? Or do I just plunge in to it, get it over with? This always happens when I have become fond of a book series. I miss the characters and that other world. The real world just doesn't seem as magical as I want it to be. I should have a plan what to read when this one is over. Any ideas?

I mostly read (or listen to) fantasy books and I tend to go for series that have many parts. When I've found something I like I want it to continue forever. I emerge myself in that particular universe and can forget everything else for a while - the best reason to read there is! I sometimes read other kinds of fiction - some of the classics like Bram Storkers Dracula and Alice in Wonderland, I love Douglas Adams' kind of si-fi and when I grew up I was all about ghost stories. I recently revisited that fascination by reading H.P Lovecraft.

At least I know there will come another book in my beloved series - but that's not until next April! Luckily I'm not at all alien to the concept of re-reading books. As a kid I read C S Lewis "The Horse and His Boy" about 10 times, and I think I've read "the Hitch-hikers Guide.." three times or more. Many people can't understand this, but it's just such a nice thing to revisit something you like. So I'll probably start re-listen to this particular series that I "read" now starting next year so I have them fresh for the new one in April... Probably sooner if I don't find any substitute.

And finally, I know some people does not think as highly of audio-books as I do. It's for people to lazy or stupid to read for themselves, or something like that. Well, let me just explain to you that before I discovered how easily I could buy books for my iPod I tried on several occasions to read an actual book while walking to work and it was not very practical. Or safe. Listen is a completely different thing, and I can clean, shop, exercise on the same time. Sådetså.