About "What I'm Reading"

You may have noticed a trend in the last ten books I've read; they're all in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I got hooked on the series when my friend Denise Nuijten (she says it's pronounced Nite'-en) told me that I had to read that book. We each picked a book that the other should read one night whe we were out at a bar or a party, I can't remember exactly where, but drinks were involved. Here's a picture of Denise and me on our way to Florida for spring break.



I ran across the napkin where she had written the title a couple of years later. I bought the book and read it, even though I liked hard science fiction and rarely read fantasy. I recommended Neuromancer by William Gibson to her, one of my all time favorites, but I never asked her if she read it.

I decided to re-read the series to get ready for the eleventh book, Knife of Dreams, released last month. I traveled to Kansas City this week, and I saw the new book at the airport bookshop as I was flying out, but I decided that I probably wouldn't finish Crossroads of Twilight before I got back, and instead of lugging it up there and back, I'd buy it when I got home. Well, I finished the book the night before I returned, but of course the KC airport didn't have the book. So I bought Michael Connally's new book The Lincoln Lawyer. He's one of my favorites and his latest novels have been wonderfully noire cop/detective/lawyer stories. But I'm dying to see the cliffhanger in the Wheel of Time resolved, too. So I put both books on "What I'm Reading"