The Storm and The Body Thief

I got the email from the library today telling me that The Gathering Storm is ready to be picked up (finally!). For those of you who don't know, it is the long-awaited twelfth book in late Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. It is the first of two books that are to be completed by Brandon Sanderson in place of the late author.

Before I can start the book, I have to get the prequel under my belt. It is sitting on my desk and I haven't been able to start it for the fear that I would not do anything else until I'm done the book. But now that I've got this library notification, I am pretty much screwed. Since there is a wait-list for it, I can't renew the Gathering Storm so I have to read it - that's my excuse anyway. I could technically skip the prequel, which is probably what I'll end up doing, but that won't help much - the Storm is at least a week's worth of reading, and that is if I am still as fast a reader as I was last summer.

All complaining aside, I am totally excited and I would be squealing if I wasn't in class (yes, I am blogging from class the really good student that I am). I can't WAIT to read about... whatever that will happen next. I actually don't really remember the details, so I have been reading the summaries of the eleven books I read last year, just to be up to speed. Oh but I am SUCH a sucker for drama and fantasy and magic that I know I'm going to be in an awesome, separate, little world of Jordan/Sanderson for the next week or so. :D

Only if the book was available during spring break... le sigh.

The other book that I'm going to pick up today is Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief. I wasn't able to get through it the last time but hopefully I will feel more tolerant of Rice's digressions after I've read the Storm and am in want of more reading. I want to get through the Body Thief so I can move through Rice's Vampire Chronicles and get to The Blackwood Farm, which connects to her Lives of the Mayfair Witches - what I am really after. To prove how much I love the Mayfair Witches, here is a family tree that I made, and want to update after reading Blackwood Farm. In my defense, one really does need a family tree to keep track Rice's story lines.