Current bedtime reading: Robert Jordan& #39;s Wheel of Time. It& #39;s 20 years since I read any of these - used to love them. Had this story in my head that they were horrendously sexist and the writing was terrible. So it& #39;s been a lovely surprise to find... #WoT

...that yes, the gender stuff is certainly problematic, but it& #39;s problematic while I can also see that he was trying stuff. The #WoT is farmboy fantasy epic, but it& #39;s also about Egwene, village girl who becomes one of the most powerful women in the world...

It& #39;s about epic doomy love between a village healer and the last king of a lost kingdom. It& #39;s about all sorts of implications of the power of magic and how it should be used. Also, the writing is beautifully smooth. And yes, there& #39;s the icky "sharing a man" thing and...

...the frankly idiotic "I will never understand wimmin" vibe that runs through the narrative, but... basically I& #39;m enjoying it a whole lot more than I expected, and am looking forward to reading Sanderson& #39;s concluding novels for the first time.