Ani's Book Abyss

Darlene's Book Nook

I think we've already established that I have a love/hate relationship with book series.  I love them because I love getting more from a set of characters in a world that I love.  I hate them because when you find a good one, there is always, at minimum, an agonizing one year wait for the next book in the series to be released to the public.

And then there's a matter of procuring said sequels to those books (to buy or not to buy, can I find it at a library, so on and so forth).

But no matter what, I'm sure my love of book series totally outweighs my frustrations with them (if I happen to fall in love with the series' world and characters).

I'm probably already shooting myself in the foot by participating in this Reading Challenge, but I figured I'd give it a try since I have this almost masochistic drive to test out new authors and new book series by picking up that first book without reserve, even though I know those actions come with consequences.

But my tentatively put together reading list for this year already contains several book titles that happen to be the first book in a series.

And so, let's see how far I manage to get (amidst all the other challenges I'm already swimming in).  And to be honest, I'm going to be realistic about this list and choose a goal that I have a chance at finishing, but not choose a goal that is an obvious winner.  After all, as per one of my other Reading Challenges, I also need to be finishing a bunch of series rather than just starting them.

In my opinion, this is the easier challenge.

Update: 7/17/2014

Officially completed now!  But there will still be many other firsts to come, so while there isn't an official challenge to anything beyond 30 1sts in a series, I might think about challenging myself to increase the number of 1sts I read.  Of course, maybe I should really focus on finishing series rather than starting them.  Not that I haven't been finishing series.  I've officially completed THAT challenge already!