FINISHED!! NOW WHAT?

[bookwyrm]

I'm so proud of myself! I just finished a series I've been working on since ninth grade! That's right! Almost nine years of reading a series. As soon as a book would come out I would read it. However, I've just read the last of the series, and now I feel kind of lonely. I've been following Richard's life for half of mine, and now I feel empty and alone without him, even though I know how everything ends. This is the only problem with a series. Harry Potter is not a long series, it's only seven books. The one I just finished is roughly about fourteen books, spread over nine years of reading and waiting.
I've also been working on Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms books since about tenth grade. These are characters that I know, that I love. So what happens when we're done with books and we have to say goodbye to the characters? What do we do when we read our last adventure with someone that feels like our best friend?
I've cried my eyes out because a character in a book dies. I've felt physically sick when something bad happens to one of my characters, and yet I have to keep reading to reach the end, to know what happens. And then, when I reach the end, what do I do?
I find another book. I meet new characters in new situations that I can then begin to relate to. I find new people. I think this is why I only have two human friends that are really here in this world (and I'm married to one of them). I have too many book friends to go around worrying about living friends as well! Yes, you might end up like this. But it's not so bad, guys. I promise you this...you never want for a good adventure.

-Mrs. Poor

[Grim Reaper]

All I can say, is I wish you well on a journey for more books.