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Not sure how much time for reading I’ll have for the next couple weeks, trying to squeeze one last smaller book in before the end of the year

Almost half way done! So if you’re tired of me talking about early George Martin short stories all the time you’ll only have to endure that for another I dunno, seven or eight years? Progress!

Wasn’t looking to read more Viking stuff this soon after The Broken Sword, but I was at work when looking for a new audiobook, was a little distracted by not wanting to get caught on my phone by my boss, wasn’t paying great attention to what I was clicking on and so here we are. Learn from my poor example and when on the job slack smarter, not harder.

I’ve been treating this as a palate cleanser, reading a single story in between other, actual books. At the rate I’m going this will probably take me about 37 years to finish so I’ll probably review some of the better/more notable stories collected here since I’ll surely have forgotten all about them by the time I’m reviewing the entire collection itself.

So I’m about halfway through this, and while it’s not a book I’m loving it is at least a book I’m enjoying and that is both an improvement over the last book in the series and a thing where the deeper I get in to this series the more I suspect that that’s about the best I can hope for with Steve Erikson.

Jumping back in to the fray. I bounced off the last book pretty hard, I’m a little concerned that I’m going to end up in hate-read territory if I don’t enjoy this one more, at which point I’ll probably just drop the series. For now I’m still pretty interested in the overall plot and setting though, so I’m determined to at least give this an honest try.