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I am now reading Canticle by Ken Scholes.

It all depends. It took me about eight total hours, if that, to finish Night of Knives, but that was a quick read, with rather simple prose and decent pacing. Most of the books I read these days around around the three hundred page mark, trade paperback or hardcover, sometimes lower than three hundred and sometimes closer to four hundred pages. It usually takes me about three days to finish one of these books because I read sparingly, just here and there instead of actually sitting down and dedicating my time to it. However, as I mentioned prose and pacing earlier, that plays a large factor. A book like Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword or Jay Lake's Trial of Flowers takes a longer period of time, despite the small amount of pages, because the prose is much more dense and the pacing slower to accompany the dramatic tension of the novels. Shriek took me about two weeks to finish and Trial of Flowers took me about three, despite it being less than three hundred pages. Thicker books take up to a week, but can take more or less time depending on, again, the pacing and prose, but also my interest. If I take to reading Erikson's latest novel, then I should get through it in a week, perhaps less, because my interest is high, the pacing is quick, and the prose is imminently readable. However, take Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart, and you have a book that I had little interest in, quick pacing, middling prose, and poor format, and that book took me upwards of three weeks to finish.

My interest in hulking tomes of epic fantasy has diminished over the past two years, leaving me with an interest in shorter novels with a focus that eschews action. These, excluding those few with dense prose (which is very much a good thing), as long as they retain an interest, do not take all that long to read. More, since I am trying to run a review blog, I do try my best to finish them in a shorter duration than I likely would have before, not that it diminishes the book any, it just forces me to read more than I had previously. I do not try for any specific page count whilst reading and sometimes there are those rare cases where I cannot put a book down at all, forced to read until completion or I push myself away--good times, those.