The Wheel of My Time

Book 11 complete. Onward to book 12.

The Wheel of Time, a soon to be 14 book series is what I have been reading for the past... 3 years? Maybe 4? I'm not sure. But I do know that I am really late to the series, since the first book, "The Eye of the World", came out in 1990, two years before I was born.

There are 12 books out, and 2 more on the way. If you want to read up on what the series is about, go read it's Wikipedia page. I don't feel like trying to summarize it myself, call me lazy :)

Anyway. The Author of this series, Robert Jordan, passed away 3 years ago at the age of 58. Before he could finish book 12 (A Memory of Light), and what would be the final book of the series. His wife and editor, Harriet picked Brandon Sanderson to finish the series based on notes that Robert Jordan had left behind. While Brandon was working on book 12, he decided that their was to much stuff left to fit into one more book, so they split it to 3 more books, "The Gathering Storm", "Tower of Midnight", "A Memory of Light" (not the first time this has happened, since this was originally supposed to be a trilogy).

Ok, now I think I have laid out a little bit of the back story on what all this is. Now, I really love this series, it shows the true nerdy side of me. I came across these books around 3 years ago when I was in a dallor store in Michigan and found book 10, "Crossroads of Twilight", on sale their. We were going to be heading home to Indiana and so I figured I would buy it so I could have something to do on the ride back. I didn't realize this was the 10th book of the series, needless to say I wasn't able to read the book.

Once I got home I decided to go to my library and search for book 1. I found it, got it, read it, and as I mentioned before, I fell in love with it. For the next few years I read through books 1-9, and finally I arrived to book 10, the book I bought in Michigan 2 years ago. Before I say this, please know, I love these books. But book 10 is very slow and little to nothing happens for the story line. I stopped half way through, and forgot about it for a year.

One year later as I am in a Barnes and Noble in a fantasy section, I see the cover of a book that looked really familier, but I have never seen before. It looked like a Wheel of Time cover, I edged closer to the book so I could read the title, "The Gathering Storm, book 12 of The Wheel of Time".

This excited me, I had completely forgotten about this series. It encouraged me to finish the book I had stopped reading a year ago. This, however, was very difficult to do, as I mentioned before it is really slow and little to nothing happens, but also trying to remember who people are, what they are doing, and what places are called. It is a huge series, trying to remember everything was a pain. But, by the grace of God was able to finish. It probably helped that I was in Florida visiting my grandparents. There is not a lot to do at my grandparents condo, and it was cold, IN FLORIDA! After I finished book 10,  I went to the Barnes and Noble in Florida and found book 11, "Knife of Dreams", on sale for $5.99, no less! Read it, loved it, and now I am here writing this.

Thus ends the reveting story that is, "Mitchell Gaston and his journey reading The Wheel of Time". Hopefully I will start reading book 12 this weekend. The reasoning behind me doing this long story about my reading of these books is because I was planning on reviewing book 12 (and 13 and 14 when they come out) and doing some more blogs on the series, so I figured I would set up what they were before I did that. Hopefully I didn't kill anyone from boredom.