New Books

It's been awhile since I've done any avid reading. Last year saw my time consumed with settling into a new home, dealing with culture shock (a year later I still don't speak the language on a conversational level. The curse of working from home and having a wife who is fluent in English combined with most places having English speaking employees, and all of our friends/people my age speak English), and scrambling to get started in a new career. Now that I have steady work (at least on a part-time basis) I actually have time to dedicate to reading again, which is something I really need to keep working on as I continue to evolve as a fiction writer.

Prior to our move I had roughly one thousand books in my library. Around 200 of those are still in boxes at my sister's house due to shipping costs being outrageous. The rest of them I sold on Ebay, and I donated about 200 to the local library two days before our flight out.

In any case, one of the authors I'm becoming interested in is Brandon Sanderson, the author who was picked last year to finish the final Wheel of Time novel. I've been spending a lot of time on his website (http://www.brandonsanderson.com/) and reading his sample chapters. He is relatively new to the industry, with only a handful of publications under his belt, but from what I can see his writing style is very involving, and is helping him build a solid reputation. I'm thinking about ordering his Mistborn trilogy to see how it reads, because the sample chapters he has up are incredibly fun.

The last book I read was the latest George R. R. Martin book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. Feast of Crows, I think it was, off the top of my head. And that was before our move! I did re-read the Liveship Trader series by Robin Hobb around Christmas, but our apartment is somewhat devoid of books since we couldn't afford to ship it at the time, and still haven't been able to afford to ship what we have left (5 boxes of stuff, mostly DVD box sets, the rest of my books, some collectible stuff, and household things like a pumpkin/Halloween candle set my mom got my wife).

In any case...that's my late-night update.