A cliche, to be sure. But oh, so true!

I added The Heart of What Was Lost by Tad Williams to my wish list today, thanks to one of Amazon’s never ending helpful suggestions about what I might like to read. I remember being caught up in the original trilogy, although I’m not sure that I ever made it through To Green Angel Tower. Ineluki is the character name that has stuck in my memory. He influenced my own character, Isar. I liked the Finnish (or what I once presumed to be Finnish – the wiki suggests I’m wrong) borrowings. I wonder how many of the mythological underpinnings I would recognize all these years later. And how can you go wrong with swords named Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn? Interesting to see that testimonials from both G. R. R. Martin and Patrick Rothfuss credit Williams as inspiration. Now I’m itching to pull The Dragonbone Chair off of my shelf – when I already have four books in progress. This is often why I don’t finish a book or a series: I get distracted by something new. Or something old that is new again – in the middle of  re-reading David Brin’s Startide Rising for my library book club, I’m tempted to go back and read the rest of that entire series too. I will never get through all the books I want to read and re-read!