- Piece of advice for everybody who might read this: Requiem for a Dream is one of the most impressive movies you’ll ever see. Really intense and haunting. I remember loving this movie fiercely, but I’d forgotten the impact of the images. Until yesterday night. It was on at the ungodly hour of 2am at the BBC and we happened to zap past it, and caught the last hour of the movie. I lay my (below mentioned) book away and watched it. The music, the images and the story are heartbreaking and disturbing at the same time.
When we went to bed afterwards, I couldn’t sleep. 
- Review: Wow, The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson is really a good read. Just when I had come to terms with the fact that I didn’t care about the Last Battle and the Wheel of Time anymore, Jordan manages to get the first part of the ending published after his death by leaving extensive notes for Brandon Sanderson to pick up and elaborate upon. While Rand is indeed terribly emo/angsty as I was warned about and by the end that started grating on me, I found myself completely digging the resolve of the White Tower storyline (!!) and the amount of balefire thrown around in the vicinity of the Forsaken. And OMG Verin 
So yeah, I was really happy with this. And now I’m actually getting excited for the end of the story cycle again. Who would have thought? 