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Hooo boy. Finally through Numbers.

Now Deuteronomy tends to be a favorite amongst people, or at least has a lot of good stuff (I remember a disproportionate amount of Old Testament scripture mastery material being in here), so I’m excited for it. Almost done with the Torah.

Read 12 chapters (of 25) so far. Surprised by how some of the repetitive and back-and-forth story telling elements of the book aren't annoying me like they would in any other book. You can tell there's some intense intentionality to it.

Forgot to update this morning, but I’ve now read through Part 2…and continue to be pretty unimpressed tbh.

Definitely think this one is gonna be a miss - and probably one of the biggest misses I’ve read.

Part One done.

Not sure I’m clicking with this one. Nothing is inherently interesting or hooking to me, and even the humor isn’t working.

(This is compared to NotM where it was rather amusing in its absurdity and DID hook me from the start).

Daughter of Swords stands tall and holds up strongly. Very good story - great life lesson material in it too.

Tales 3 is such a good collection. I very story is a big hit for its own reasons. Ruocchio has his work cut out for him with future short fiction.

After well over a year I’ve finally gotten back to listening to this. Several more chapters in Numbers done - a couple were interesting, regarding the topic of cleanliness after handling a dead body and such, but still a lot of it is hard to get a grasp on (of course, partially because hardly any of the laws and rules in the Torah apply to non-Orthodox Jews lol).

Gutter Ballet is still one my of favorite Sun Eater stories. Tone and vibe of the noir setting is awesome and makes me even more excited to finally reread Parliament of Owls in Tales 1 later this month.

The Archaenaut isn’t quite so wow-ing as it was the first time, since I knew the reveal, but the way it plays with language is still really cool 😎

Mother of Mothers may just be one of the most lore-rich stories of the side-material. It's so cool, and - though not as mind-blowing as the first time around - totally worth looking back into before Disquiet Gods comes.

A Parable in Iron is such a solid parable. It’s a really neat anecdote with just enough to dig into to make more than 1 read totally worth it.

[Re]incarnation is SO much cooler reading it with no real tense or perspective errors (as there were a handful when I copy edited it).

Very VERY cool thematic stuff here too.

(Re-Read as part of my proofread for Anderida of The Dregs of Empire & Other Stories)

After the Feast is seriously SO FIRE.

Finally back on this train. Gonna try to plow through as much as possible before Oct.

Chapters 7 and 8 down. Got a good bit of context for Feanor's character and some family drama here - plus some stuff with Melkor that I tooooooootally did not at all in any way see coming (mark the sarcasm there.)

Still a lot flies over my head; still I enjoy what I read.

Haven’t updated for a few days but been reading like nobody’s business for a few days - though still mot as much as I hope because of other obligations popping up lol

Book good.

GUYS. BRETHREN (Chapter 43 of the book) IS SO FREAKING GOOD ON THE RE-READ.

I went through every emotion and every memory and every cool foreshadowing moment in this chapter and it broke my heart and wowed me and widened my eyes so many times.

How Christopher did this in BOOK 2 I'll never know. (That's a lie; I do know: it's called Outlining LMAO)

Got a couple more chapters. Now a few more-familiar names are being dropped.

I kinda wish I had a full size map of all the lands mentioned cuz I would honestly make a lot of this a lot easier to understand for me lmao

Couple more chapters next Monday probably; otherwise, setting this down till November.

HUGE progress today. Idk why I came back to this instead of starting Return to Edan next…but I think I just want to have this re-read and then Majority both finished as soon as I can at this point to clear my plate a bit so I’m waiting a bit on Edan I guess lmao

Definitely gonna finish this in a couple of days! Loved every moment of this book. I think this book will have a place in my Top 10 of the year.

Though I do hope to get to The Shadow Rising this year too...and maybe that'll take that spot over. We'll see.

All sorts of omens being thrown out there, good and bad. I can tell the story is building to some crazy stuff here very soon.

I don't think all of that is going to be at the end of this book though. I think The Shadow Rising is where a lot of this stuff will come a head in a "First Act climax" for the series.

Obviously, I'll RAFO regardless

Book good

Forgot to update after the absurd amount I read yesterday.

So much fucking shit to talk about I already recorded the week’s WoT Diary for the channel and it’s 25+ minutes LMAO

Got a huge chunk read today. Still greatly loving what I'm reading, and there's a lot of little shifts to developments that have me quite intrigued for future developments. Probably gonna get right up to Perrin's (finally) next POV tomorrow.

Wow. I was initially sad to leaving Perrin POV's for the girls in Tar Valon...but man this Tar Valon shit is pretty great too.

Definitely my favorite of these first three books so far tbh.

Quenta Silmarillion:

Ch. 3 - very good.

Ch. 4 - didn’t understand a thing even tho it was literally only 1 page lmao

BOOK IS FIRE. Honestly, I'm liking this first 100 pages more than the first hundred pages of TGH.