I'm not sure what I think

when the New York Times starts covering the publication of the new George R. R. Martin novel. I guess I'm just going to have to buy it and read it--it's true that I've really liked the past volumes, although they are so long that I won't do my usual reread-old-ones-in-anticipation-of-the-latest thing. (I'm slightly horrified to see in this article another reference to the dreaded toy soldiers thing--and if you're not a die-hard lit-blog reader who's already caught up on this, do check out Carrie's amazingly and horrifyingly funny post about nipples in the latest Martin volume.)