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Bk5 of July is done! The 10th book of WOT & The world is rapidly moving toward Tarmon Gai‘don & while Rand has cleansed saidin, men who can channel are still distrusted. Mat has escaped Ebou Dar with Tuon but finds keeping a High Lady more difficult than he feared. Perrin is making a deal with the enemy to rescue Faile & Elayne is fighting for Andors crown. Four more books to go! #BookspinBingo #SeriesLove2023 #ChunksterChallenge2023

Another one done!! Did both audio book and physical to crank it out. Bit of a dull one but still managed to be engaging.

Now this one deserved to be put in the category of "The Slog". There was some good character development, especially with Perrin and Mat, but the plot didn't seem to move forward that much from where we left out characters at the end of Winter's Heart. One good thing about the book is that it showed how the recent event at the end of WH impacted the rest of the world. It will be interesting to see how the alliances forged will play out.

I made some good progress on the little ornament while I finished CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT. This is the last of the books I read as they were released, and the moment I finished it I vowed I wouldn‘t come back to the series until it was complete and in paperback. Because y‘all? Very little happens here, and the hardcover was LONG and HEAVY and TROUBLESOME. The ebook (and, most recently, the audiobook) went much better for me. #audiostitching

Yawn! This was very much a "bridge" book. The Big Event that closed out Book 9 is revisited here half a dozen times, from the viewpoint of multiple factions spread across the world, as we see what they were doing and what their reaction was when it occurred. It's an effective narrative device given how huge and momentous the Event was, but still, it takes up the first 300 pages of the book, and the rest is just build up to the inevitable climax ?

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Rodel Ituralde hated waiting, though he well knew it was the largest part of being a soldier.

#wondrouswednesday @TheSpineView

1. Crossroads of Twilight
2. Taking my daughter and her friends trick or treating
3. Getting a good night's sleep for once.

Tag: @Ast_Arslan @IuliaC @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

Finally starting book 10… I will eventually finish this series, it just may take me several years 😬

#doublespin @thearomaofbooks
Square 1 ✔️

Definitely the least eventful of the WoT books up to this point, but still a decent read. Four books to go!

1. Crossroads of Twilight and The Buying of Lot 37
2. A Deadly Education (not specifically called witches, but definitely magic-users)
3. Not yet

This week's reading plans:
Crossroads of Twilight
The Once and Future Witches (so excited for this book!)
The Buying of Lot 37
Lolly Willowes (at least start the book)

And here we go again!

Well, the prologue is only 100 pages this time 🤪😂

Finally a nice day to enjoy this book outside!

I liked this one and didn‘t feel bogged down or bored at all during my time reading. I can understand the criticism about there not being any big events during this installment but sometimes just following friends around is good without everything being high stakes.
#WheelOfTime
#BuriedAliveChallenge

Weeeellp, slog is over at least. Time for some action (I hope). #BuddyReadWoT

#bedtimegoals #BuddyReadWoT #itsnotthatbad

Onto book 10, smashing my way through #theWheelofTime #WOT BuddyReadWOT because all I want to do is read the #Nevernight chronicles from start to finish 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 Anyone finished it? As good as I‘m expecting it to be?

I‘ve also finished Bks 8-A Path Of Daggers, Bk9-Winters Heart & Bk10-Crossroads Of Twilight of my #audiobook #reread of #TheWheelOfTime. It‘s been much quicker(and easier on my head)listening to these doorstopper novels & just as enjoyable. This series is still my favourite high fantasy series of all time and always will be I think. I really hope they don‘t screw up the tv adaptation!🤞

And that‘s number 10 in my WOTReread done!💪🏼 Mat‘s storyline was good fun, Rand and Nyneave achieve the unachievable but nobody knows/believes which causes some creative plotting... I‘ve given up trying to pace myself with these books, next one will be started on today!🥴☺️
#WoT

Finished book ten in the Wheel of Time series, and just as with the previous installment, next to nothing happens despite the needlessly inflated word count. I‘ve come to the conclusion that this series has devolved into the literary equivalent of crab legs. It‘s good, but it‘s far too much effort for too little meat. #WheelOfTime #RobertJordan #WheresTheDamnCliffsNotes

I made the decision to go with the audiobook for this installment of “The Wheel of Time” series, and I‘m liking the readers, a husband and wife team. The previous book ended with an attempt to cleanse saidin of the taint that drives men insane. I am more than halfway through this book and STILL no scene to show if it worked. Jordan loves to waste time giving the life history of every character who so much as sneezes in the POV‘s presence. 🙄 #WTF

What better way to start the year than with an excruciatingly long Robert Jordan prologue?

As I‘m getting near the end of this series, I‘m so sad for it to end! I‘ve been reading WoT since February and I don‘t think I‘ll know what to do with myself when I‘m finished.
This was a great installment and definitely more fast paced than the previous nine. I‘m on to the next! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Had a nice coffee & reading date with Josh this morning 🥰

Day 7 of the #WriterNerds challenge. Favorite literary quote
There are SO many I quote all the time from "Dragons love pie?" To "Chocolate. Eat it, it helps."

For whatever reason, this quote by Mat from Wheel of Time was the first to pop into my head. So I went with it, but I have to say (so none of the other quotes feel left out) it isn't my all-time favorite. ?

FINALLY on book 10!!!!

I finished this one last month but forgot to post about it.
Like the 8th volume it is not so good as the others, but still great!
Now I'm reading the last one wrote by Robert Jordan and I'm already sad 🤷

Over 800 pages and nothing really happens until the last 100. Still I found it easier it get through this book than the two before it. This was the last book of the series that I had read previously so I am looking forward to seeing what happens next. All of this build up must lead somewhere.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 As good as the last 9! #WoT #MountTBRChallenge #theyearofthechunkster #LitsyAtoZ #LetterJ

520 of 680 pages
#book10 #WoT
#maleauthor #Readingresolutions @Jess7

416 of 680 pages

Reading on this rainy Sunday while my husband plays Skyrim before having a late mother's day dinner with my mother-in-law. Pickle is braving the rain to spend her adoption anniversary birthday under the blanket between my legs, one of her favorite spots to sleep(the middle rounder lump again). #Pickle #picklecameo #catsoflitsy #petsoflitsy
376 of 680 pages

Nothing like sitting at home on a Saturday night reading 🤓📖
Also Pickle is the middle lump in the blanket 😹 #Picklecameo #catsoflitsy #petsoflitsy
337 of 680 pages

After a busy couple of days it's nice to sit down and read 🤓
267 of 680 pages

1. The baby squirrel that'sbeen visiting for a few weeks now
2. Tagged book, it's book 10 in a fantastic fantasy series!
3. Fantasy or YA or books about books or books with cats
4. 79 F with a real feel of 86! 🌞😎
5. Hopefully getting to see my nephew and niece, probably dinner with my mother-in-law(belated mothers day) and lots of reading
#humpdaypost @MinDea

#Bookishmap #Readingresolutions @Jess7

This is a day late but it looked fun lol
1. I haven't made it very far, busy and when I do get to sit down I've fallen asleep lol
2. My mom, I hated reading when Iwas learning but once I got the hang of it I immediately loved it! My mom read to us all the time growing up
3. All day!
4. I tend to have a really good memory so I'll randomly remember characters from books I read years ago.
#ManicMonday @JoScho

Up next is book 10!!

Bk10 of #TheWheelOfTimeXmasReread is done. One advantage of being bedridden is lots of reading time, when the pains not making you bite through cushions anyway. My doctor came here to tell me I‘ve aggravated my meniscus tear that I‘ve had for awhile now & it could be a few days or a few weeks before I can walk without help. So much Yay.🤬 Here‘s to hoping it‘s days not weeks🤞Oh, the book was as awesome as I remembered btw👍

Bk10 of #TheWheelOfTimeXmasReread after this there‘s only four more books to go, three of those unfortunately written by Brandon Sanderson. Don‘t get me wrong, I like his books, but his style is sooo different from Jordan‘s writing. It‘s like whoever made the decision went with the most famous writer instead of a writer with a similar style to the other books.🤷🏻‍♀️

A rainy, gloomy weekend, is a great time for some heavy reading.

My #doorstoppers keep Totoro company 😍😊. Someday I will finish this series. No, phone, NOT SUNDAY. That's a tad unrealistic 😉😏. #riotgrams

Here's my semi-accurate Goodreads year in books! My actual total is 74, but the way Goodreads handles re-reads throws off the total a bit. This was a banner year for me--I don't think I've ever read this many books in a year and I #blamelitsy. 😏Also, a LOT of these were comics or kids/YA. I have an obsessive method of adjusting for length/reading level (re-reads, kids/YA, and comics count less) and under that system, my total adjusts down to 48.

This one draggggged for me. After some major events in the last volume, this felt like a lot of filler. I'm still waiting for the last book's events to actually have an impact on the plot. And then, cliffhangers. Darn you, Robert Jordan! One more volume down, four more to go. #sequelseptember #seriesseptember

The TBR as it currently stands, for #tbrTuesday. I'm 2/3 through Crossroads of Twilight, and it'll feel good to have one more Wheel of Time volume crossed off the list! I'm hoping to finish the top three before the new semester starts on Monday. I'd like to finish at least one of the bottom four before August is over, but... well, I'll just have to see how that first week of classes goes!

Hey, look! Jordan finally figured out how to NOT include the phrase "underneath her breasts" in a description of a woman folding her arms. ? It only took him nine books to get to this point.

Here we go. Book 10. There are times I really enjoy this series, and times when reading it is literally a labor of love. (It's the husband's favorite series ever, so...) Book 9 was definitely laborious, so let's see how this one goes!