Catching Up is Hard To Do

I've been bad. So this is a catch up post.

Okay. Actually, I'm going to do this right, and not take the lazy way out. Several posts will follow.

Here are some brief observations:
* I'm reading the 3rd Merry Gentry book (almost finished -- and the 4th is waiting for me --- I LOVE the public library!). I'll be honest and admit that I'm a little disappointed with it. Every page I turn, Merry has to sleep with more men. To some, that might be great, but quite frankly, I'm getting tired of it. Adding more potential fathers to Merry's potential child is advancing the plot; it just seems like some of that could have condensed. Last week, I even skipped ahead and read the last paragraph (which did nothing except confuse me so I was forced to pick back up where I'd left off). I had thought about purchasing the series from the local used bookstore but am now rethinking it. [It's like when I read the Dune series last year; I liked it until all the core characters died then I stopped reading.] I read about Andais' spree last night, which made me want to finish. Action - I like it!
* Diana Gabaldon's Outlander is waiting for me too (as is an entire stack of books). There's just not enough time to do all the things I want to do in a day!
* I've been typing my handwritten historical novel. (I wrote the novella over 10 years ago and, as I am prone to do, I expanded it into an entire universe.) I've decided that (1) I'm switching titles for the books, (2) making the second book entirely about a character introduced late in the first book, and (3) that I stunk as a writer. Dialogue - good; prose - bad to nonexistent
* I came up with the idea for a series of novellas about a fictional town/community. They were all separate ideas I'd written and stored in my writing box underneath my bed but now I'm combining them (and possibly expanding them into full length). Would an agent read a book where the only thing the characters have in common is where they live?
* I placed a hold at, ta da, the public library for the 1st Sookie Stackhouse book. I'm really excited to read it.

[Okay, this wasn't very brief at all.]