Daniel Shellenbarger > Recent Status Updates

two things keeping me from finishing this quickly. First, for some reason, I can't get it to show up in my Kindle cloud library (on my kindle devices, yes, on the cloud library, no), which dramatically reduces my reading opportunities, and second, I REALLY want to read a physical copy, and I don't have it yet... (sadness)

Perrin has put down the axe, guess that means it's hammer time... :)

Ok, here's another reason this is the worst book in the series; spending so much time with the Egwene and her petty crew of Aes Sedai dithering while the world burns. Also, it drives me nuts how pretty much all the characters only bring up Rand to blame him for their problems, yet while their stories are going in circles, he's fixing a millennia old problem no one thought anyone could fix.

woohoo! we've finally moved events to the next day (the first half of the book pretty much all takes place on the day that Rand & Nynaeve are at Shador Logoth messing with the Source, which certainly reinforces my previous theory about this book's origins)

Given how much of this book happens concurrently with the end of Winter's Heart, I do wonder whether this book began as a collection of chapters that Jordan had to cut from Winter's Heart and then stretched out to book length; this would explain much.

Mat can't get help from anybody, Perrin is mopey, and Aram is NUTS, yup, easy to remember why this is the worst book in the series.

woohoo! I'm through the prologue!

it's been almost a month and a half since I finished my reread of Winter's Heart. Yes, I HAVE had other things to read in the interim, but that's not the real reason I took this long starting Crossroads of Twilight; however, I made it through this book once, I can do it again... probably.

Still don't have the hardback (WHERE IS IT!?!) but I couldn't restrain my need to read anymore.

a very interesting book, I hope Tchaikovsky can stick the ending

you really don't know what you're getting into, reading a book by somebody you follow on youtube, but so far I'm pleasantly surprised; Shad isn't just a talented swordsman and amusing pop culture critic, he's a decent writer; there's some rough edges, but overall, I'm really enjoying the book so far.

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