Baraka_Guru

Ha, I know! The last I checked he's over 1,050 manuscript pages or something. As a book editor and marketer, I tell you that a finished product is far off at this point, especially if this thing gets divided into two separate books.

I still have a lot ahead of me to read, and I'm not reading the next one right away. I'm delving into sci-fi in a serious way for the first time, and I'll likely read a few books in that genre before turning back to the Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot