200 pages in.

So, as you may have guessed from the title, I am 200 odd pages into the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and i can tell you 2 important things.

1. I am quite enjoying the story. Rand and his crew have just got to Baerlon where white coats abound and rumors of all sorts on happenings are being bandied about. There are also some really strong willed female support characters that I believe that I am going to like a lot, as long as they don't succumb to being the "love interest" and stay quite one dimensional. (live in hope and all that.)

2. The copy of the book that my supervisor very kindly got me is rather old, has a tiny, little font size to fit all that text on some very sepia toned approximately 800 pages that is seriously screwing with my dyslexia and absolutely refusing to be read at a faster rate than about a page every, say, 3-5 minutes.

I know, I can hear you being truly surprised at that rate of reading, hence only being 200 pages in after 2 weeks on the one book but that is the reality of dyslexia and the reason why so many dyslexics don't read.

This is also why i jumped on the ebook band wagon as early as possible (we didn't get the Kindle down here in Australia until the second generation) because I can change the font size to a comfortable reading position.

I also taught myself to speed read to a degree last year, but it only works for the right sized font on certain background colours.  So when the world is against me, I am forced to go back to my old struggle style of reading, word.......for.......word.......very........slowly.......

Hence if i was not enjoying the story, there is no way I would still be reading it!