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You don't want to read THE SUN SWORD unless you've read the rest of the series. Go back to at least THE BROKEN CROWN. For best results, pick up HUNTER'S OATH instead.

Then come find me so we can gush about Michelle West's ability to illuminate her characters' true selves though telling interactions; her intense, multilayered worldbuilding; the big damned SWEEP of it all.

Maybe you, like me, will find her fight scenes and her magic less ⬇️

Gonna finish THE SUN SWORD before I do anything else. It's been such a journey!

Also gonna finish this beer, which cost me $1.56 and tastes like it was at least $1.75.

I still haven't won a car.

Hell, I still haven't won so much as a donut.

BOOOOOOOO.

At least my Timmies reading session took me within 30 pages of THE SUN SWORD's end. That's sort of like a win? Even if I can't eat it or sell it to someone who wants a Jeep to drive, not just so they can tell everyone they won a car on Roll Up The Rim?

140 pages left. To be honest, I'm ready to take a couple days off from it again. I'm into the big battle West's been building up to for a million pages, and y'all know I'm not nearly as fond of her battle scenes as her interpersonal stuff. There are flashes of that here, but there's also a lot of fighting and abstract magic. Sadness.

Still, I'll plough on through in the hopes the battle ends soon and there's a long, charactery epilogue.

They aren't quite close enough together for an effective photo, but I had to share my reading buddies with y'all nonetheless. They're too cute to keep to myself.

I'm now in the homestretch with this 960-page tome. If the Book Gods are kind, I SHOULD manage to finish it by the end of February.

#weekendreads time.

1. Tagged for primary fiction, plus HOMES by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung for nonfiction, WITCHMARK by C.L. Polk on audio, and a big ol' stack of GIANT DAYS for comics.

2. Paperback or ebook.

3. I tapped out of JANE EYRE on page 126 in grade 12, but I did go back and read it in its entirety a few years ago. Adult Me liked it way more than 16-year-old Me was capable of, so I feel I did good.

I'm diving back into THE SUN SWORD with a little help from wee Duffy. Casey's sprawled out on the couch beside us.

Tea break with my latest hundred pages of THE SUN SWORD. I've hit a good rhythm with it now so I might read it straight through from here. I'll see how I feel once I finish this segment.

Windchill's -35 and there's giant snow drifts everywhere with more falling by the minute, so we're calling this a snow day. Gonna stay in bed as long as possible. #caseyplusbooks

I didn't fancy the Superb Owl party at my house, so I went to see Mary Poppins (cute, but probably not memorable) then did the #LitsyPartyOfOne thing at McDonald's with a free coffee and a cheap pie.

THE SUN SWORD is one of my must-reads for February. I've put it off for years because it's 960 pages, but now I'm determined to finish it as my in-between book. Every time I finish something else, I'll read another 100 pages of it.

New month, new planner spread featuring my three February must-reads and La TBR's current count. I'd love to reduce it to 330 by March 1st.

Boom. I finished my chunksters checklist--everything on La TBR that's got 450(ish) pages or more--and now I'm done with this bullet journal setup. My wee notebook's an awful lot fatter after all the decorative stuff I added to it today.

Sick day survival pile. I've got one of those colds where your nose turns into a tap and your throat feels like someone lined it with fabric and you think you MIGHT have a fever but you're too muddled to say for sure. Maybe you're shivering because the furnace is about to come on. Maybe.

So I'm gonna read a bunch and maybe watch some VICTORIA, with cat cuddles thrown in when Mr Gray feels like it.

This is a stupid thing to complain about but I'm about to finish sun sword and then house war on my nook app and this is the tiniest font available. I wish it was smaller D: