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[adiva_calandia]

Am now in Ottumwa, IA. jothra, I am nearly done with that birthday fic I promised you.

There are intimations of thunder in the distance, I think. (I'm probably misusing that word horribly.) ETA: Never mind, that's real thunder. ...And a tornado watch. FUN TIMES.

I finished Crown of Swords (*hums "Another One Bites the Dust", doubtfully*) which means I have no more WoT books with me. HORRORS. I'm afraid that if I don't keep reading, I'll lose all my momentum and interest in the series. Which would make me sad, because I'm still enjoying it, somewhat to my surprise.

To make up for it, though, I'm rereading Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, and man, it's making me feel much, much better about this whole college thing. I've been going through a lot of "Crap crap crap living on my own and making decisions and being responsible and OMG" emotional turmoil, and following Janet through her freshman year is amazingly comforting. Even considering the ominous Melinda Wolfe and Professor Medeous.

Of course, recognizing reference after literary reference makes for fun, distracting reading anyway. And why on EARTH did I not pack any of my Narnia books? What was I thinking?

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[slutbamwalla.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that if I don't keep reading, I'll lose all my momentum and interest in the series.

That's what happened to me. I was halfway through Lord of Chaos and quit reading because I had to focus on job hunting. And then I never picked it back up.

Which kind of sucks, because I was interested in the series, and I was more or less enjoying it. I just don't have the oomph now.

[adiva_calandia]

Yeah. :\ A lot of people have told me they stopped because they just got so annoyed at the characters/ploddingly slow plotline/writing/whatever, but my irritation has been keeping me engaged (Clinging to the belief that Nynaeve will one day lighten up, over here).

But now, unless it's right in front of me . . . Eh. I'll pick up the next one at the next bookstore we get to and see what happens.

[varadia]

Lighten . . . up.

Um. Sadly, no.

But!! If you can make it through to Knife of Dreams she gets PRETTY DARN KICKASS.

So. There's that?

[adiva_calandia]

She sort of has! A little! I mean, there was the whole thing about lying, and then her block.

*sighs* Oh, well. I shall settle for kickass, then. (Not to mention hilarious and sweet when in the same room as Lan.)

[batyatoon]

Tam Lin is so awesome. *hugs it*

[kd7sov]

Well... If you have any intention of continuing your examination of WoT, I'd suggest you reread the ones you have until you get more, or something. Shortly before... I think it was the winter one... was released, I was reading through the series and I got to that point, but it was something like three to five weeks before I got ahold of it. By the time I did, I had no idea who was whom (except for a few - the Two Rivers youngsters I still remember fairly well) or where they were or why they were there or what they were doing. I gave up after about one and a half chapters.

So if you want to keep going don't lose the momentum.