Or maybe the colour of really dark wine. I am not amused. Dyed it on Thursday - or rather, my sisters did the job - and the result was... nothing like it should have been. Will have to see, it'll fade a bit as I wash it, but I've got a sinking feeling that it'll probably fade towards lighter purple and lose the wine-like shade of red, rather than ( Read more... )

So I've only just started the re-read of Lord of Chaos, where Taim makes his first on-screen appearance, but I felt like I had to get some of this off my chest.

( Cut because of emo fangirl rant & possible spoilers for whateverbooks. )

Finally finished The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book of the Wheel of Time series. Took longer than I'd expected. But then again, I did have various other things to do this week. Anyway, gonna cut the whole thing, because of spoilers and tl;dr.

( Spoilers for The Fires of Heaven and possibly a bit for later books also. )

Just finished The Shadow Rising, the fourth book of the Wheel of Time series. And yes I know it's a re-read and I've read all this before but it was ten years ago and I'd forgotten so much and just plain missed so many details the first time around and if I said the previous book wasn't quite as good as the first two then holy shit did this one ( Read more... )

Just finished The Dragon Reborn. This felt shorter than the two previous books (not sure if it actually is or it's just my imagination) and didn't give a similar rush. Although it certainly had its moments.

( Spoilers for The Dragon Reborn, book three of the Wheel of Time. )

So I just finished The Great Hunt. (Yes, I read fast when I actually read.) And I was surprised again at how good it was. I was fully expecting to find Wheel of Time barely worth reading, after reading stuff like Malazan or Coldfire or so, but damn. I'm very happy to have been proven wrong about this. Finding that the books I used to love so much ( Read more... )

So instead of Malazan, I started a long planned re-read of the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan. The last book (written by Brandon Sanderson, who has been working on finishing the series after Jordan died) should apparently be out the upcoming summer, so I should have caught up by then.

( LJ cut in which I go on about the Wheel of Time. Some fairly obvious spoilers for the first book. )

And I'm not talking about Ghost Voyage this time.

I've always had huge respect for bands/artists that are active in their fan communities, be it Facebook, twitter, forum. It gives us the impression that these guys (or gals) appreciate the fact that we appreciate them. That our love for their (in this case) music isn't meaningless to them. And it's ( Read more... )

I'm being spammy tonight. I apologise. Anyway.

Anyone who's familiar with Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen will know that line; "The timeline is not important." The story is full of timeline inconsistencies and outright impossibilities (so wait, it's been a year since the Pannion war but this child who was conceived during that war is ( Read more... )

Figured I'd actually keep track of what I'm reading this year. Will edit this as I read more.

January-February:
Audrey Niffenegger: Her Fearful Symmetry
Ian C. Esslemont: Stonewielder
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet

The Wheel of Time re-read:
The Eye of the World - finished 20.2.
The Great Hunt - finished 22.2.
The Dragon Reborn - finished 24.2.
The ( Read more... )