Sick and Reading

On Friday and Saturday I was sick. Hardly able to leave the bed, sleeping all day sick. On the plus side, I was able to read a few pages in between each bout of sleep, something that brought me back into the fold(ed page).

I had just finished Interview with the Vampire late last week, a book I picked up in May. Not that it took me that long to read, just that I wasn't very committed to the book. It really grabbed me at the end.

But this weekend, I read Dark Disciple, the latest installment in the new Star Wars EU. It was fantastic. Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos (who you may recognize from the Clone Wars TV series) made a rather unlikely pair to attempt to cut down Count Dooku. The character progression for both of the main characters was fantastic, and I particularly enjoyed Obi-Wan Kenobi serving as moral compass for the reader in the morally ambiguous debacle in the Clone Wars. I was a big fan. 9/10, great book.

Dark Disciple

I also read a few Star Wars comics (Star Wars #6, Darth Vader #6 and #7, Princess Leia #5, Kanan: The Last Padawan #3, and Lando #1. Comics count in Goodreads, which is making me rocket through my reading goal.

I picked up a couple of young adult books in the new Star Wars EU, and have begun with Servants of the Empire: Edge of the Galaxy today. It's a rather short book (at 172 pages), and I'm on pace to finish it this evening. I hope to start in on the Discworld series soon with The Color of Magic.

If you're not already my friend on Goodreads, feel free to add me on http://www.goodreads.com/j11harms. I'm much more consistent about providing updates about my reading on there, even if it is just an update, without comment.