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Wednesday reading notes
Just read:
Protector, by C.J. Cherryh, the second volume of the fifth Foreigner trilogy. Which I devoured in two days when I really should have been doing other things, but was left oddly unsatisfied by. We do get a bit of offstage station politics retconned in along with the Atevi politics (and ( spoiler ) -
WOT observation
I just finished a reread of The Eye of the World, the first volume in the epic Wheel of Time series. It strikes me that, in pacing at least, it's a miniature version of the whole series: a promising beginning, a saggy, baggy, tangled middle that goes on far too long, and an epic and rather awesome confrontation at the end ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday reading notes
What I just finished: Cold Days by Jim Butcher (wow, is Harry Dresden getting over-powered or what?), and a few days earlier A Memory of Light, which I mentioned in an earlier post.
What I'm reading now: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (reread) and Powers by James Burton. (I probably won't do a straight back-to-back reread of the whole WOT ( Read more... ) -
An ending
I just finished reading A Memory of Light. At first I was reading a chapter or two at bedtime, but the last couple of days the story gripped me and wouldn't let go; I've been reading most of the day. And now, after twenty-three years and fourteen fat books, the story is done ( Read more... ) -
Winter wonderland
After a week of feeble flurries, we finally got some worthwhile snow last night, coating every tree and fence.
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Wednesday reading meme
What I'm currently reading:
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss -- started yesterday. The first page is dire (as I commented on G+, I suppose a book as long and eagerly awaited as this can get away with starting with the badly-written boredom of a secondary character), but it gets better quickly. That's my big fat bedside book; for portable ( Read more... ) -
Books read, 2012
I started out meaning to do a monthly book post, but that fell by the wayside after March. Here's the list for the year, anyway.
(r)=reread, (e)=e-book, (l)=library book; otherwise it's a hardcopy that I own, or owned at the time of reading it.
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Writing prompt free to good home
Unpacking replacement seahorse
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