swimming through the fog

[rootofnewt]

Boy is going to drive me to the pool after work.

I don't think I can drive today, either, which sucks. I need to mail two packages out--they're well overdue. I also need to go to IY and WalMart and I need to check out one of the furniture stores.

*sigh*

I finished Robert Jordan's latest novel--A New Spring, the first of three WoT prequels. I don't know what to read next. I have Fagles' translation of The Iliad, Heaney's bilingual Beowulf edition, and Mieville's King Rat. Truth be told, I'm not sure my brainfog is sparse enough for any of them. I do have a bunch of Clive Cussler and Dale Brown, but I need to figure out which Dale Brown I read last and see if I have the next in the series (I dislike reading out of sequence).

Hrm... decisions.

My tummy is bothering me, too. I'm thinking I can handle Splenda in small amounts, but not daily. This is a new things. :/

Comments

[quix.livejournal.com]

A New Spring, huh? What did you think of it?

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a fleshing out of an earlier short story I've already read. It's interesting. It delves more into Moraine and her early years as an Aes Sedai and her search for the child Foretold.

It's a really fast read--I just normally only read right before bedtime.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I read uh, I think the first 4 or 5 books of WoT, somewhere in there it just all started to run together, I didn't even know he was now doing prequels to the damn thing. How many books were there, finally, and there are going to be three prequels?

I keep thinking I'll unpack them and read the series again, since I'm trapped here in freaking -40 (with windchill) degree crap...sigh.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

There are, thus far, 10 WoT books. Five and Eight, I think, are two of the interminably long/tedious ones. ;)

I think he's planning on 12 WoT books, not including the prequels. Who knows--it could go further. ;) There are supposed to be three prequels total. The first one was just released last week.

[krues8dr.livejournal.com]

Wait just a damn minute. He wrote a fucking prequel without finishing the first series? I'm gonna hunt the bastard down and lock him in a room with monkeys and typewriters, dammit. I won't forgive him for the last two pieces of shit in shiny book jackets. Ignore Mat for the entire book? What the hell was he thinking...?

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

and those books are big...and loooooong...yeesh. Guess I need to start adding to my amazon wish list.

[merii.livejournal.com]

i loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove <3 Beowulf!!

some of my friends used to call me Grendel as a joke. hehe! not that i'm ever monsterous! O:)

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

i think i read the first 4 WoT books, i liked them quite a bit. my dad quit supplying them about then, so i went on to other things. i would have kept reading them, but i'm one of those fruit people who, if i have some number of books of a series in hardback, i want them *all* in hardback...i won't mix. i couldn't *afford* the hardbacks, so stubborn me just quit. i keep thinking i'll re-start them, but there are *so* many other books! heh.

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

Would definitely recommend the Heaney Beowulf. I read it over break. Fantastic!