Things Change.

So two posts ago I said I was gonna do a thing and I've decided after doing it for three weeks, that I really don't want to do the thing. So I deleted the posts pertaining to that idea and I don't plan on doing it going forward. If it interested you (which from what I'm seeing, no one was; I'm talking mainly to myself at this point), sorry.

D.I.F.F.E.R.E.N.T. T.O.P.I.C.
So when my brother still lived with us before moving up near Grand Rapids, I would quite frequently borrow books from him that he had to read. Among those were The Deverry Cycle by Katherine Kerr; The Wayfarer Redemption and The Troy Games by Sara Douglass; The Saga of Recluce, The Corean Chronicles and The Imager Portfolio by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
One good thing about siblings and having similar tastes is you can read their books. Bad news is when they move away you don't have access anymore. For the Corean Chronicles, that was not a problem, because my local library has them. But they don't have the rest of the books except The Wayfarer Redemption series and just book one of another series Douglass wrote.
It had been ages since I had read the first and second books of the Corean Chronicles, so this year I re-read them so that I could familiarize myself with the world in the story (I've had the third book held "hostage" since my brother had moved out). So I borrowed the first two books from the library and read them, then moved onto book three. No big deal. I got through it, took me about a month to do so, but I did it. And then the issue arose. Book four takes you to a time before the first three. It takes you to basically the beginning of the history of the world. I had grown attached to the characters established in the first three books, and so with the sudden reverse, I had the book for a month and a half and hadn't even reached page 80. Modesitt does something similar in The Saga of Recluce but I knew that going in and he did such a wonderful job in that series that it didn't cause a problem. Although he really just jumps around in the history of the world, hence the SAGA OF RECLUCE. Recluce being the world in the story.  (I still have to read book 13 of something close to 20 but that's another issue for another day).
I finally returned the book and said that I would try to read it another time, when the character that I had grown to adore wasn't so fresh in my mind. Because I have noticed that I sometimes have trouble continuing a series when it jumps perspectives from someone I've become attached to to someone different. It normally doesn't cause this much trouble, however, for this series it did. I'll talk about one apparent exception later, at some point, if I don't forget.
So for now, ta!