What I'm reading - 27th April

I've been meaning to read another George Orwell book since I finished Animal Farm in November 2011, so it's been a while. Nineteen Eighty-Four was the most obvious choice in furthering my adventure into the Orwell experience. It's also been sitting on my bookshelf for close to seven years. I picked it up last Saturday and have read 50 pages in the meantime. It's a book I want to read, but at the same time, I don't really feel like reading it right now. And so instead of reading anything at all, I watched seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Game of Thrones. It wasn't the most productive thing I could have done with my time, but I don't feel bad about it.

Watching so much GoT put me into a massive fantasy-needing state. I still haven't finished reading the Wheel of Time, I started it a few years ago and had hoped to finish it last year. I didn't, and so I still have three books left. Three books out of fourteen. I've spoken to a few people about this series and many have told me not to bother finishing it. But there are only three left for me to read; I'm not going to stop this close to the end. I'm going to do it. The last three books (or last book split into three if you want to get technical) come to a total of about 2,800 pages. It's not really all that many.

The Gathering Storm is admittedly moving a bit faster than many of its predecessors. I'm not all that far through, and have forgotten many of the events up to this point, but I don't think there's going to be too much pain in reading it. Things are happening and as long as I don't have to see too much of Perrin, it will be fine.

It's not very often that I read more than one book at once, it's not something I like to do, but right now such an action feels necessary. I will finish both of these books and then move on to Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light finishing the Wheel of Time at last. I will probably read some smaller books both alongside and in between which should break it up nicely.

I hope you're enjoying the book/s you're currently reading.