A word...

I have of late abandoned what was one of my most favourite pastimes, reading (no not the City in Berkshire, Literature dear boy). The main problem was I hit a wall of really rubbish books, four to be precise (of which none that I managed to complete) and finally my brain gave up and promptly fell asleep.

I was absolutely determined to get back into reading as it's been a great pleasure of mine for a long, long time, so over the Christmas period, having received 5 new books for presents (they were mostly Science fantasy with a couple of Autobiographies thrown in for good measure, well it was Christmas!) I sat myself down and managed to finish two of the rubbish books (as mentioned earlier with dogged determination) and also the two really enjoyable Autobiographies.

One of the Science Fantasy books given was the first book of a series of three books that complete the fifteen book Wheel of Time series (15 books in all, gulp!). I have had great pleasure in reading these since 1990, but, unfortunately the author Robert Jordan died in 2007 and left the eleventh book incomplete. Whilst this was obviously a huge sadness it was also a nightmare for his literature followers.
However, between the publisher and his wife (God bless 'um) they found someone to write up the notes he had made before his death, his name is Brandon Sanderson, I will read it and let you know how I get on.

All the best

Baz