Yes, I'm stuck in George R. R. Martin's A Song Of Ice and Fire series. Happily so! I'm starting to worry that I'll get the the end of book five and be left hanging. That sounds excruciating! I almost want to slowly proceed and hope book six is released sooner than later.
The fourth installment, A Feast for Crows, continues to impress. Martin so thoroughly inhabits the principal character of each chapter, I think he is the warg. There were some wonderfully satisfying developments at the end, especially around the Cersei story. I was disappointed to have this book end with so little word on Bran and John and others, but when I started reading book five, well, it was heartening. I'm also getting comfortable with a common vocabulary that includes words like jape, craven and vainglorious. It's a great ride.
Here are the (too few!) quotes I kept:
Page 286: She could not have said which she found most hurtful, the pretty girls with their waspish tongues and brittle laughter or the cold-eyed ladies who hid their disdain behind a mask of courtesy.
Page 379: The wool clung to his wet chest, drinking the brine that ran down from his hair.
Page 406: The next day the road dwindled to a pebbled thread, and finally to a mere suggestion.
Page 477: "In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them." (Petyr)
