summer project #1 - read a book for fun

for my first summer project i decided to read a book for fun. it was nice to read a book i wanted to read and not one i had to read for school. of course i am a bit of an over achiever. my one book turned into seven. it all started innocently enough. i will never learn that once i start the 1st book in a series i will not be satisfied until i've read them all. for this very reason i tend to not start a series until the whole series is written. i am a really fast reader and once i start reading i don't want to stop until i'm done and nothing is worse to me than the anticipation of waiting for the next book to come out. especially when it takes years for the next book to come out. this is the case in the earth childrens series. i'm still waiting for the last book of the 6 part series and the author has yet to write it. to be honest i have been waiting 20+ years for this series to conclude. i read the first 2 books when i was 12 which was a long, long, long time ago. they where already out in paperback when i read them. just for fun i googled them and the first book was originally published in 1980. and here it is 2009 and we are still waiting for the last book. almost 30 years. how sad.