This week I took advantage of some longer reading breaks while waiting on people to pick up their items from the auction I helped with at a former school. It was surprising just how much more I was able to read in four days of long reading breaks around than 30 minutes each than the usual 6-7 days of 15-20 minute breaks. I might literally have spent half of last week's reading time re-reading to remember what had happened earlier in the chapter I'd left off in the day before.
The story continues with the eclipse having had its desired effect and riches being offered to the former prisoner. He rambles even more about little details before destroying Merlin's tower using science in the guise of magic, takes on the nickname "The Boss", starts secretly effecting change through building factories and simple subversion, finally being pushed into going on a quest. The most amusing ramblings were in the middle of chapter 12 when he realizes he can't take off his own helmet to get to the handkerchief he'd left there, and he's unbearable becoming drenched in sweat in his suit of armor. It went on for several pages like a lot of the other overly-described scenes, but it was too funny for that to get too annoying. He's finally able to be helped out of his armor, has more subversive conversations with the locals, and gets back on the road with traveling companion Sandy, who is meant to be guiding him to his quest but provides him a lot of annoyance with ramblings of her own. It was definitely a lot easier to keep track of how the story was progressing when I had enough time to read at least a chapter at a time. However, I think I'll go back to shorter stories until I have more opportunities to read for longer than 15 minutes uninterrupted.
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