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Wheel of Time Book 11: Knife of Dreams

Yes, my review of book 11 comes only a few days after my review of book 10. Part of that’s due to my taking a brief break from posting — the book 10 review was ready well before it went … Continue reading

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Wheel of Time Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight

Memory can be a little funny sometimes. I’ve mentioned before that this isn’t the first time I’ve read this series — up to a point, anyway. I had read up to a certain book in the series, found it severely … Continue reading

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Wheel of Time Book 9: Winter’s Heart

When I reviewed the eighth book of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, I commented that most of the interesting stuff happens in the first 25% of the book. With the ninth book, Winter’s Heart, it’s instead the last 25% … Continue reading

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Wheel of Time Book 8: The Path of Daggers

Eight books out of fifteen completed, if we count the prequel. When I made the decision to re-read The Wheel of Time novels I had read before, in preparation for reading the ones that were new to me (or just … Continue reading

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Book Review: Robopocalypse, by Daniel H. Wilson

I first heard about Robopocalypse from an article in the Osage News about a year back, announcing it had been published, and discussing the involvement of the Osage in Daniel H. Wilson’s story. Being both an Osage and a science-fiction … Continue reading

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Wheel of Time Book 7: A Crown of Swords

With the seventh book of The Wheel of Time finished, I’m now officially over the halfway point in the series. And I can’t help but notice that this book took me only a little short of two weeks to read. … Continue reading

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Wheel of Time Book 6: Lord of Chaos

As I get nearer the halfway point in this series, it has come time to once again make a change in how I’m approaching and reviewing these. Initially I’d planned just one big mega-review at the end, but then decided … Continue reading

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The Wheel of Time: Books 3-5

It’s starting to look like my original time estimates for reading Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series were pretty close to the mark after all. Although I read the first three books in the span of about a month, the … Continue reading

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The Wheel of Time: Books 0-2

When I started my re-read of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, I initially planned to read all 15 novels (including the forthcoming A Memory of Light), and do a single, if lengthy, review at the series at the end … Continue reading

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Turning the Wheel of Time

The movie section of “Morgan on Media” dominates the other sections, and that doesn’t bother me one iota. I spend more time being entertained by movies than by other media nowadays anyway. Well, with the exception of music; I almost … Continue reading

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