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[Leiasqz she/her]

Hi!

Confession: I've been jumping around the Coppermind countless of times. However, I never found a reason to sign up for the forums because I'm not really a forum person. But then there was free stuff (Aether) and here I am. To punish myself for being late I decided I should actually post something here, and try to become a good citizen by actually discussing things with people.

There, had to get that over with first, now let's start over!

Introduction:

Hello there! I'm a norwegian female who have loved books since before I could read myself (much to the torment of my mum who had to read me bedtime stories). Most of my favourite childhood book settings included living among vikings, living in the stone age, being stranded on deserted islands or running away to the forest. No wonder then, that as a grownup I enjoy Fantasy more than almost any other kind of genre. However,I also run though crime novels, history books and way too many children's books whenever I get the chance.

I started reading Sanderson when he was announced as the writer who would finish the Wheel of Time series and I wanted to know what kind of writer he was. I began with Elantris as it was a standalone, and continued with the Mistborn books.. After that I just kept going. To date I guess I've read every published work except the 5th Alcatraz-book, which is next on my list.

I discovered Goodreads almost a year ago, so if anyone is interested in seeing what books I've read (accurate for the last year, not so for all books ever written), here's my account: https://www.goodreads.com/leijaa

-N

Also, whoa, just realized that I'll have my 10 year anniversary as a Sanderson reader this December.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Hey, welcome to the Shard, @Leiasqz! Have an upvote and a free spiked delicious cookie!

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Which Cosmere book is your favorite?

[Leiasqz she/her]

Thanks! And thank you for the cookie, just one question, is it made before or after the Hero of Ages?

Your question had me pondering for a while, but I think I have to end up on the Well of Ascension. That was the first Sanderson book where I puzzled out a plot twist way before it got revealed, which left me with a deep satisfaction for being so overly clever. And then later I got this for the effort, which sweetens it (at least if the picture quality had been better):

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EDIT: @StrikerEZHow did you hide the picture? I wasn't planning on it taking up half the page :/

EDIT2: Got it!

 

Edited July 27, 2017 by Leiasqz
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[StrikerEZ he/him]

@Leiasqz That's so cool! I never would've been able to guess that plot twist! (FYI, don't talk about spoilers here  You haven't yet, just warning you)

Also, there should be a little eye button up with the italics, bold, etc. That will make a little spoiler section you can put things in.

[Leiasqz she/her]

Thanks! I hate being spoiled myself, so I'm normally well behaved about those things.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

2 minutes ago, Leiasqz said:

Thanks! I hate being spoiled myself, so I'm normally well behaved about those things.

Yeah, I hate getting spoiled as well. I actually had the end of the first and third Mistborn books spoiled for me. 

(Major Mistborn spoilers-don't read if you haven't read the first trilogy)

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I had Kelsier's death in the first book spoiled for me, and the fact that Sazed became Harmony in the last book. I forgot about those spoilers once I got to the books themselves, but when those events were coming up, I was like "Oh, so that's how that happened."

 

[ccstat he/him]

Welcome! I checked out your goodreads (my account is linked in my signature) and your 5-star ratings that I haven't read yet were mostly LE Modesitt books. Do you have a favorite of his?

On 7/27/2017 at 7:06 AM, Leiasqz said:

Most of my favourite childhood book settings included living among vikings, living in the stone age, being stranded on deserted islands or running away to the forest.

Did you ever find a book with 3 or more of those elements?

[Leiasqz she/her]

Thanks for the welcome! The answer to the first question is a real hard one for me to answer. I haven't really read any of his SciFi stuff, but I've read all his four Fantasy series. Of those, the Saga of Recluce is my definite favourite. But to name an individual book is hard.

If I really had to choose, and within the Recluce Universe, I'd say book 6, because it contains a lot of the elements I'm looking for in a book. However, book 8 and 9 turned the whole series on it's head for me and made me rethink quite a lot of the "truths" I thought I knew about good guys versus bad guys, and book 10 and 11 just contain a brilliant mind whom I really like. And then there's book 16 which has the only female protagonist to date.

The problem with most of these are that they depend on an understanding of the whole series up to that point to really work. I guess the first one I mentioned is the easiest to read as a standalone though.

For the second question, I actually did. When I was a kid I read a (norwegian) children's book series about several tribes living in the stone age. One of the protagonists got thrown out of his tribe, had to learn to survive on his own in the forest, then later built a boat and went on a trading mission to Denmark, getting stranded on an Island along the way. I guess that covers at least three

[ccstat he/him]

Thanks, I'll have to check that series out. I've seen his name everywhere but never tried one of his books.

[Leiasqz she/her]

6 hours ago, ccstat said:

I checked out your goodreads (my account is linked in my signature)

Finally had some time to browse through this. Guess what, you spoiled me! There's a book in your "want to read" section that I didn't know existed yet

5 hours ago, ccstat said:

Thanks, I'll have to check that series out. I've seen his name everywhere but never tried one of his books.

You should! And, I guess I should say that even though most of the Modesitt series jump around in the timeline a lot, reading them in publication order is the way to go, since then you get reveals in the proper order. It's not a complete must though (although I believe that's what the author himself recommends).

[ccstat he/him]

19 minutes ago, Leiasqz said:

Guess what, you spoiled me! There's a book in your "want to read" section that I didn't know existed yet

Oh, that one. Oops! I hope it wasn't a big spoiler for you.  Have you read the ones that are published? (That one isn't yet). Edit: I see you answered that one in your intro post. I apologize if this hurts your reading experience of the one you have left.

Edited July 28, 2017 by ccstat

[Leiasqz she/her]

On 29.7.2017 at 1:40 AM, ccstat said:

Oh, that one. Oops! I hope it wasn't a big spoiler for you.

Nah, don't worry. I knew something was up since there was a blog post with a header saying something of the sort (which is marked as a "to read later" in my rss feed). It was just funny because I didn't expect to be spoiled there. Oh, and of all the things to be spoiled on, this is far from the worst

Edit: And now I'm caught up anyway so now it's not a spoiler anymore

Edited July 31, 2017 by Leiasqz
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