Walsall Wonderland

That’s what I say to my fiancé when I am hitting that part of a novel where the story-lines are starting to reach their culmination. That’s the point I’m up to in my current book.

I’m currently reading Toll the Hounds, which is from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I’m looking at the home stretch, with a little under 80 pages left before I’m finished. The next book will be available in October, so it shouldn’t be a long wait, and it’s the ninth in the series! Only one more to complete the entire thing! Erikson has been releasing a book per year for the – almost – for the last decade, which is just amazing to me, considering how much is in each book.

They have a very far reaching story line, with layer upon layer in terms of characters. We get to read from the perspective of the most innocent child, right up to big ol’ angry poopoo-head Gods. I hate you, Kallor. It’s been a pretty good book, and I really like the series as a whole, in spite of there being many aspects that frustrate me.

I think Erikson is over the top with violence, personally, and find some of the violent acts depicted rather offensive. There are so many great characters in this series, and I like the inclusion of the Gods and the Warrens, the scope is amazing. So it’s sad to me that the books are diminished at all by this overly grotesque violence.

Still, this series would be in my top ten, that’s for sure. I will have some time in the next couple of days for reading, so hopefully I’ll finish out my book in the not too distant future!

Now for a pattern, I was inspired to find something dragon related due to the dragons in the books. I found this really awesome Dragon Scarf. This pattern has such versatility! I want to knit up one is something super soft and super bulky, and then put some nice chunky buttons on it and make it a big cowl kind of thing.