Audiobook finished

Confessor by Terry Goodkind

Book 12 in the Sword of Truth series. End of story arc. There's a new book out since this one but I'm giving this series a rest for now.

Really pretty satisfying story if you can get past the sociology sledgehammer that he's hits you over the head with every book since Faith of the Fallen. Yeah, OK, we pretty much got it. I mean, the speeches are good and all but let's take it down to maybe only 2 of them a book?

Book finished

The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson

This book does some interesting social exploration. It's at once fairly pessimistic about the future and very optimistic. (mini spoiler) Humanity as a whole conquers death but then ceases to have any urge to explore. But those who have always been beyond death carry on to the stars.

There were definitely plausible ideas in this book that I hadn't come across before. That's always worthwhile.

It took me about 8 weeks to get through this book. Not because it wasn't interesting, but because I have been running low on sleep and never got more than 3 or 4 pages done before falling asleep. Also it's an interesting story but not a page-turner; I wanted to read it but was never compelled to stay up until 3AM reading.