Hi! *waves* I'm newish, I guess, to the boards in that I made an account here over six months ago, probably around the time I finished reading AFFC, but didn't really start to regularly visit until a week or so ago (and read through entirely too many back-pages of threads in General Chat and Literature and Entertainment. Ah, the joys of having a mundane job that makes such reading sprees possible!). I'm a big fan of the books, though a reread is on the back burner until ADWD is in sight and until some point whereby my hold on the mountain of a prospect that is reading the Wheel of Time is not so tenuous as to be very likely derailed by diving back into the world of Westeros. Reading more than one book at a time just never ends well for me. I always end up wanting to read one more than the other so the other gets cast aside until the first is done. And then to pick up the second means having to reread a fair bit, which so close to the first reading is merely a painful practice in trying to not skip ahead. Thus, a reread is just not doable until a much later time. Such is the case with Wheel of Time, which got derailed back in 2008 by the Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series, which was itself derailed partway through by none other than A Song of Ice and Fire (ta da!), which incidentally was not derailed by the barely-a-pit-stop that was the latest Dresden Files book. That aside, I spend an increasingly respectable amount of time (that is to say LESS time) playing WoW, which is great: more time for other things like reading (the list of To Read NEVER gets shorter >.<) and thinking about stuff and trying to train our standard poodle to attack my boyfriend, just as he tries to train her to attack me. Anyhoo, I suppose this is introduction/rambling enough for now. Cheers!
