Bookmark: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is the first novel in the A Song of Fire and Ice saga and the teevee series adapting that string of novels. But you know that, everyone knows that. The popularity of this story is surprising to me; clearly the HBO teevee adaptation had a lot to do with it but it seems like the novels had gathered a lot of steam on their own. I only read the novels last year and only just now, thanks to the free “preview” of HBO on the local cable system for a few months, have I caught the first …