• Just started reading "Game of Thrones". They're on sale in Waterstones so thought I'd give it a read. Not really one for fantasy, usually a classic crime novel reader, but I'm finding it really gripping. Only about 10 chapters in (and it's a thicken!). Really recaptured my joy for reading. It's a great feeling all to easily forgotten when you put a book down after finishing it.

    Anyway, I think there are four or five more books after this so should keep me busy over the winter months!

    On offer you say - that'll be why my girlfriend bought it for me then...

    I really enjoyed it too but then it's right up my street (I real a lot of fantasy). It's quite stark in it's descriptions at some points which was deliberate but sometimes felt like he was so excited/keen to get the next bit out he just threw down some words to get there. It really picks up after the first couple of hundred pages. Have bought the next one but have a long list to get through before I get to this one (especially 1q84).

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