{"id":2710,"date":"2018-10-03T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2018-10-03T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T07:24:19","slug":"series-i-havent-finished-and-dont-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":";series i haven&#8217;t finished (and don&#8217;t know why)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-893 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bookworm-things.jpg\" alt=\"bookworm things\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bookworm-things.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bookworm-things-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi, hello, and welcome to today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Ara, What Are You Doing With Your Life And All Those Books.&#8221; Today, we will be talking about the book series I own and adore, and for some strange unquantifiable reason, have yet to complete!<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m serious. I don&#8217;t even know why I haven&#8217;t finished these series yet. I enjoy them, I want to finish them, I just haven&#8217;t yet?<\/p>\n<p>Someone help me?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2716 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/series-i-havent-finished.jpg\" alt=\"series i haven't finished\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/series-i-havent-finished.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/series-i-havent-finished-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Part of me thinks that I haven&#8217;t finished these series&#8217; yet because if I do, then that means they are actually over&#8230;<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Let us start with one that everyone has read and loved, and I scoured for the final book, and somehow still have not read it. <em>The Raven Cycle<\/em>! That is right, I have not completed <em>The Raven Cycle<\/em>. The last book has been sitting on my shelves since shortly after it came out. Why haven&#8217;t I read it? I don&#8217;t know! (I have somehow managed to keep from major spoilers though. Go figure.)<\/li>\n<li>Another series I scoured the shops for? <em>The Firebird Trilogy<\/em>! I loved the first book, I was excited when I found a copy of the second &#8211; and yet somehow, books two and three remain on my shelves in the plastic covering they came in. What is wrong with me?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2718 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unfinished-series.jpg\" alt=\"unfinished series\" width=\"520\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unfinished-series.jpg 520w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unfinished-series-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I adored the first two books in the <em>Penryn And The End Of Days<\/em> series. ADORED. I am super excited for the conclusion. SO WHY HAVE I NOT READ IT YET???? I could not tell you.<\/li>\n<li>At least not having read the final book in <em>The Illuminae Files<\/em> trilogy has a justifiable reason. I can&#8217;t find a copy of the book in local bookstores. This one is not on me. I mean, not really? I could, arguably, order it from online but then I&#8217;m worried it won&#8217;t match the rest of the series covers&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2717 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/curves.jpg\" alt=\"curves\" width=\"520\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/curves.jpg 520w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/curves-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else do this? Start a series they are super excited about and then for some weird reason, never complete it? Despite wanting to?<\/p>\n<p>Just me?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1143\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/signoff-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"ara\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/signoff-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/signoff-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/signoff-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/signoff-1200x592.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, hello, and welcome to today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;Ara, What Are You Doing With Your Life And All Those Books.&#8221; Today, we will be talking about the book series I own and adore, and for some strange unquantifiable reason, have yet to complete! No, I&#8217;m serious. I don&#8217;t even know why I haven&#8217;t finished these series yet. I enjoy them, I want to finish them, I just haven&#8217;t yet? Someone help me? Part of me thinks that I haven&#8217;t finished these series&#8217; yet because if I do, then that means they are actually over&#8230; Let us start with one that everyone has read and loved, and I scoured for the final book, and somehow still have not read it. The Raven Cycle! That is right, I have not completed The Raven Cycle. The last book has been sitting on my shelves since shortly after it came out. Why haven&#8217;t I read it? I don&#8217;t know! (I have somehow managed to keep from major spoilers though. Go figure.) Another series I scoured the shops for? The Firebird Trilogy! I loved the first book, I was excited when I found a copy of the second &#8211; and yet somehow, books two and three remain on my shelves in the plastic covering they came in. What is wrong with me? I adored the first two books in the Penryn And The End Of Days series. ADORED. I am super excited for the conclusion. SO WHY HAVE I NOT READ IT YET???? I could not tell you. At least not having read the final book in The Illuminae Files trilogy has a justifiable reason. I can&#8217;t find a copy of the book in local bookstores. This one is not on me. I mean, not really? I could, arguably, order it from online but then I&#8217;m worried it won&#8217;t match the rest of the series covers&#8230; Does anyone else do this? Start a series they are super excited about and then for some weird reason, never complete it? Despite wanting to? Just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[464,59],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-post","tag-series-i-havent-finished-and-dont-know-why","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}