Wheel of Time series  OY!!  LONG books  LOOOOnger series.  A friend of mine said I should read this series, he's an RPG and I see a lot of influences from big books like Dune as well as Wheel of Time.  I had just finished the fourth book and I think it took me a few months to get that read. I need a break from all that.  I am going to eventually get back to the series and THIS time I will read only ONE book.  I usually am doing FIVE at a time which puts my husband in a tizzy.  'how do you keep track???'  simple, what I am reading is DIFFERENT I could be reading a romance, a true story, a food memoir.  I can read two fantasys at once when they are different.  When reading Renshi trilogy I didn't start on a Wheel of time till I was done, both were long and involved and I would get lost.  I'm reading Vahalla Rising, recommended to me by a friends years ago and NOW I am reading it.  I like the fast pace.  The Wheel of Time books tend to take some time to get into the action. I have to commit myself to reading 10 chapters in order to cement my interest.  I am also going to start reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, always loved that writer and I have been to Monterey many times so reading this will give me a history of it.  Love how he mentiones the stink of the place, now it's a tourist spot with dozens of gift shops and when you get to the warf there you smell the fishiness.  I actually like that smell.  Every time I was there and walking the beach there were always dead seals there... WHY?  You find  two or three carcasses, huge, looking like boulders .  I wonder if it was old age or pollution problems. 

Another book I will be reading soon is Eldest.  Now that I have waded my way through The Shadow Rising I can now relax with a more simpler plot line.  After that I have THe Sight lined up, can't remember the author's name but it's about a pack of wolves and one of them is a seer.  I love wolves and this sounds very exciting.