This past week I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to read very much. Like I said in yesterday’s post my evenings were busy with Mr. Bubba being out for meetings at work. I had snuck in a few minutes here and there while waiting in the car to pick up the kids but on Friday evening I was able to curl up on the recliner in my pajamas with a blanket and my book, One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. A friend of mine, Molly, had recommended this series of books to me months ago.

On New Year’s Eve, hubby and I decided to take the family out on a date and we went to watch The Muppets at the movie theater. We saw the poster for the movie version of One for the Money. When I was talking about it with Molly we decided to watch the movie together but only after I read the first book. So I went on Paperbackswap and searched for the books, not just the first book but the entire Stephanie Plum series. I had a lot of credits stashed away on Paperbackswap…

Look at what I got in the mail:

All received from Paperbackswap.com

A nice big stack of books! I was so excited to see all these books coming in… Now, I’m at a crossroads, I finished the first book:

It was great, as I said on Pinterest, it “cracked me up, made me gasp and sucked me right in once I actually sat down to read.” I really liked it! I saw mixed reviews on Goodreads but everyone is entitled to their opinion. It was a fast read for me, I read the majority of it in one evening. As my husband likes to remind me, I read fairly quickly.

Now to my dilemma: At the beginning of the year I posted about a stack of books that I already have that I would like to read in 2012 but now that I have this whole new stack of books that are in a series, should I read the series or go back to my original stack of books?

I think that if I read the next books of the series, I’ll get through them quickly and put a big dent into my reading goal for the year. The only thing is that I don’t want to forget about the stack of books I already have.

What do you recommend? What would you do?

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I call it DEAR Monday because when I was in elementary school, yes I know that was in the last millenium, the reading time during school was called Drop Everything and Read or DEAR. I also found that I would complain a lot about another Monday coming along and I decided to be nicer to Mondays. Mondays are the days I come to my little corner of the Internet and write about what I’ve been reading or plan to read.