I finished A Memory of Light yesterday.

I'm off work today, and don't want to give my time to writing a review right now, but I did want to mark the moment.

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I finished The Gathering Storm, book 12 of the Wheel of Time ( Read more... )

Like me, several of you are fans of the late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books. My husband passed the news on that the planned last book is now going to be three:

Splitting A Memory of LightMe? I'm thrilled with this news. Yes, it's going to take longer to complete the story, but you know what? These books are going to be around for a very long ( Read more... )

Courtesy of my dear husband:

Wheel of Time films

Let the casting speculation begin. If you will pardon my cynicism, although I'll see it anyway, I will be greatly surprised if it isn't a disaster. Seriously - there's just way too much ground to cover. You thought it was hard to do justice to Lord of the Rings? Trust me, Peter Jackson succeeded ( Read more... )

Okay, really, this week can stop being eventful any time now. :(

James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known as Robert Jordan, died today, and frankly, it isn't fair and it isn't right. After hearing of his illness, I tuned into his blog, and I think I ended up admiring him more for the spirit and courage with which he confronted his amyloidosis than I ( Read more... )

I've put down Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell temporarily so I can read the new Wheel of Time book, Knife of Dreams.

I'm about 100 pages into it thus far, so no spoilers (and please don't tell me anything after that point, either). Events are moving at a fast pace, however.

Anybody else reading it at the moment?

The new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has been announced, and is due on June 21st of 2003, according to Amazon.


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