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I finally got down to finishing Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb after something like two and a half months of reading, and the fact that I took that long is a sign that I didn’t enjoy the book a whole lot.
Assassin’s Quest is the final book in the Farseer Trilogy (the first two books being [...]

Last year I managed to read 17 books, a far cry from the annual 30 target that Wanida and I set since 2006 (actually, we’ve never reached it). It’s actually a slip from last year (19 books) despite the year being slightly freer than last.
Fiction
Austin Grossman – Soon I Will Be Invincible
Dan Abnett – Ravenor [...]

Royal Assassin is the second book in the Farseer Trilogy, a review of the first book, Assassin’s Apprentice, can be found here.
The story follows FitzChivalry after the ending of Assassin’s Apprentice and plunges him back into his world at Buckkeep amidst Regal’s ambitions for the throne, the Red-Ship Raiders, more Forged Ones and his love [...]

After finishing reading A Clash Of Kings by George R. R. Martin, I was in the mood for some good fantasy and so I crowdsourced for recommendations. Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy appeared too many times to be ignored, so I hopped on to Amazon.ca and gave it a go.
When I got the book, two things [...]

I had four days of doing absolutely nothing this week, ad yet managed to get most of my stuff done.
Reviewing last week’s goals:

Potato salad has to be postponed yet again =\

Review of Assassin’s Apprentice has to be postponed too

The rest got done. I know when the concerts are and got the tickets, done studying [...]

One more week and it’ll be a full month of doing the Weekly Reviews (WR). I must say it has definitely helped me work the week out in advance, the only problem is my attention tends to waver towards the end of the week.
So reviewing last weeks goals:

3/5 chapters studied for the Media & Pop [...]

I’m posting this a day late because I did all this on paper but forgot to blog about it! Terrible me!
Reviewing last week’s goals:

I did find an omlette recipe that worked well on Sunday, so I fulfilled cooking

Earl Grey cookies were swapped for cranberry orange cookies which turned out fantastically. I really outdid myself [...]

I’ve been reading on-again, off-again about Getting Things Done (GTD), and one thing I’ve decided to implement is the Weekly Review (WR), and what better way to make sure I stick to implementing it than to blog publicly about it?
The basic idea behind the WR is to process stuff that went on during the week, [...]

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