The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass...

[kat_lair]

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Wheel of Time Book Club?

Robert Jordan's ginormous Wheel of Time series and I go way back, all the way to my teenage years when I devoured the first few books in parts as Finnish translations (they were chopped up on account of being So Fucking Long). Then I moved countries, picked it up again in original English but failed to finish it on account of a) life and b) it being a series that never ended. I mean, it sure did, and moth2fic  eventually donated the whole series to me and I told everyone I was going to read it as soon as I finished my PhD. I finished my PhD almost a decade ago. I have not (re)read the series.

Now, however, there are two things happening. 1) A TV series is coming out. 2) annathecrow was foolish enough to express mild interest in re-read efforts with me. On account of that, we were wondering if Anyone Else had such an Interest. Wheel of Time Book Club? Anyone? Share emotions, revisit questionable teenage choices or discover the world for the first time, cringe your way through the worst of it together and fall in love with the characters again?

You in?

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Comments

[kat_lair]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I would like this to be a we thing, not a me thing. It's been A Long While since I've taken any responsibility for a comm though :D

Haven't really gotten as far as thinking about a schedule but them are Big Books so a decent read time allowed. And am definitely open to expanding the comm to Whatever. I did have a look for any WoT comms on DW but the only one I found was a kink meme one with no posts beyond the set up ones. Don't know about LJ as I don't really frequent it at all any more...

[spikedluv]

They ~are big books! I can't recall the length of the chapters, but I was thinking x number of chapters per week, or something like that.

I've already pulled mine off the shelf (I didn't want to not be able to find it when the time came, lol) and I'm all set when you fire off the starting pistol, or whatever. *g*

[kat_lair]

So, I've done a bit of investigating and there already is a wheel of time community BUT it's never been used. I've contact the administrator although they too don't seem to be active anymore... Going to give it a couple of days and then maybe the best option is to start a new community.

[spikedluv]

Okay. I'll wait to hear what you've decided.

[kat_lair]

Okay, no sign of life from the mod of existing but unused WoT community so I have created tar_valon Nothing there yet, but I'm hoping to do a 'lets get started post' within the next couple of days.

[spikedluv]

I love that name! *runs off to join*