Come to think of it, I remember exactly when it dawned on me that if you liked one book by an author, you might also enjoy other books by the same author. It was when I decided to read my way through the kids' fiction section at my local public library, starting at one end (authors with "A" names) and working my way through to the other. I found "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" early in that read-through. It might well have been that series that made me realize that if you liked one book in a series you might enjoy reading the rest of the series too. But it was when I got up to Madeline L'Engle that I found a bunch of her writing and realized that I might like all of the books by an author that I liked.
It's likely that I didn't find Aiken's other serieses because "Aiken" is alphabetically before "L'Engle," so it hadn't yet occurred to me to go look.
ps. I never finished my alphabetical read-through. After a long Madeline L'Engle phase, I continued a short way farther through the alphabet, until I reached Anne McCaffrey's books Dragonsong and Dragonsinger. I loved them, so I used my newfound knowledge to find my way out of the kids' section and into the books intended for grownups, to read lots more McCaffrey. I never went back. :)
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Date: 2025-01-21 09:06 pm (UTC)It's likely that I didn't find Aiken's other serieses because "Aiken" is alphabetically before "L'Engle," so it hadn't yet occurred to me to go look.
ps. I never finished my alphabetical read-through. After a long Madeline L'Engle phase, I continued a short way farther through the alphabet, until I reached Anne McCaffrey's books Dragonsong and Dragonsinger. I loved them, so I used my newfound knowledge to find my way out of the kids' section and into the books intended for grownups, to read lots more McCaffrey. I never went back. :)