I didn't plan on blogging again today, but I just couldn't resist.
If you could have seen me about five minutes ago, dancing happily around my bedroom, you'd probably think I was on some pretty good drugs or something.
The reality, though, is that I'm a total dork when it comes to books and this was just a more demonstrative than usual example of that.
I just read on AfterElton.com that Armistead Maupin is at work on an 8th book in the Tales of the City series! He published the seventh book in the series, Michael Tolliver Lives, last year after nearly twenty years between books. The latest, which will be called Mary Ann in Autumn, is going to be more like the first six books: "It’s the old format of the multi-character tapestry..." which makes me even happier!
I seriously love these books so much. I'm especially excited that the new book is going to include Mary Ann, who showed up briefly at the end of Michael Tolliver Lives but was mostly absent.
By the end of the six original books, the character of Mary Ann had become a pretty selfish person who put her career ambitions before her friends and her family, to the point of leaving her husband and child behind completely. I think in that sense, her character's evolution over the first six books embodies the change from the more free spirited 70's into the self involved, money and status obsessed 80's.
It was interesting to see where she was at during her cameo appearance in the last book, but I'm sure it will be even more so to have her as a lead character in the next.
The only downside is that Maupin just started writing it and doesn't know when it will be finished. Patience is a virtue, though, right?
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