Welcome! It's a pleasure to have you here with us! I remember getting stuck on Book 8, and I swear it used to tease me because I couldn't seem to finish it. You can do it! *cheerleader*
Been wanting to da a reread of the series myself, but that would mean having to buy the first books again as I read them in norwegian the first time and want to do the reread in english. So it will have to wait as I save up some money. I've just got AMoL though so I'm set for a little while