TwiLyghtSansSparkles

I thought some of the deaths in the last Hunger Games book were fine, since Collins was trying to show how awful that war was. It did get oppressive after a while, though I still cried at the end. Divergent, though....I don't even know what she was trying to do there. Maybe make everyone cry the same way Collins did, but Roth forgot to make her characters memorable before she killed them. And all the poor plotting and shoddy worldbuilding in the second book is why I didn't even bother with the third.

Now I'm very interested. I mean, I liked Hunger Games well enough, but that moment in the third book when Katniss takes a moment to explain to the reader exactly what "The Hanging Tree" means was a bit much.

Haven't read Partials, but I saw it on Goodreads a while back and it looked interesting.

First recommended YA read: Reckoners Second: Dan Wells' John Wayne Cleaver books Third: Mistborn Sound good so far?

Thanks. There wasn't an experience requirement on the posting, but they might go with someone who has worked in libraries longer than I have. Of course, I'm hoping they choose the "young adult who knows all the cool teen stuff" vibe that I project.

Not for long. I'm just waiting to board my connecting flight to Portland for a friend's wedding. Though I'm still waiting to hear back on that job with the SLC library.

Eating McDonalds in the SLC airport. All of the time stamps on the posts here are still in AZ time, but my phone automatically switched to UT time when I landed. This is really throwing me off.

Whatever the case, by chapter two, he seems not to have realized he has powers yet. Perhaps he's staving them off by resisting? Or through ignorance? I doubt he wants to be an Epic any more than you do.

My guess is the Epics whose powers the Foundry used to make Epic tech, though I could be wrong. And I agree that the prologue seems to imply David's Epicness.

io9.com. There's a link in the Reckoners section, Calamity spoiler board, under the topic "Another Chapter."

The library filters probably won't block it, if/when you get the chance to go. But yes, they were good.

Prologue and first two chapters of Calamity are up, and I just wish I hadn't read them because now all I want to do is read the rest.

More please.

I stopped following most meme sites when they started picking on different religions. This site is more fun to gush on, anyway. Though I do recall growing up with similar problems. My brother and I each got a subscription to a different teen-oriented magazine, and while his ran sci-fi and fantasy stories each month, mine ran stories that were all historical fiction or slice-of-life.

Harriet Jones....don't I know her?

Excellent. She'd be flattered, but would be more inclined to draw Nathan into the cuddle-fest (so she could keep an eye on him). Though she'd be very concerned about Shiny using her flirting as a ruse to attack her or her vanillas, she'd also be very impressed by the sparkly explosions. Are we pushing for another love triangle?

Good guys, bad guys, and explosions… So many explosions. She does have standards, true, but I was thinking more of cuddling as a diversion. Nuzzle his cheek while readying an explosion, for example. I can definitely see her cuddling Funtimes, though.

I'm with Kobold on this one. Cute adorable, yes; trash, no.

And in the end, Twi sneaks away to Nebraska while her two love interests duke it out, and the winner teleports to Omaha with a bouquet of roses. Slightly scorched. First, I would send her to Metronome. Once she had convinced the ruler of Salem to "lead" her (and probably flirted with him a bit) I would have the two of them team up and go against Timeport. Metronome could time Timeport's porting and attacks, while Shiny distracted him with her sparkly explosions, and I have a feeling they'd stand an excellent chance of setting off his weakness. And then there's also the dialogue we'd get. Timeport: God has sent me to destroy you, puny Epic! Shiny: Really? He sent me to cuddle! Timeport: YOUR CUDDLES WILL DESTROY YOU! Shiny: (nuzzling his cheek) No they won't.

I don't know some of the fandoms involved, so I don't know how helpful I'd be. Working for DC, Brandon Sanderson writes for Superman. With Steelheart, Sanderson gave us Superman as he could be: a godlike being, twisted and corrupted into a nigh-undefeatable tyrant who hires tyrants for his government and kills without remorse. For Superman, Sanderson takes the opposite approach to Snyder's, giving us the hopeful, benevolent Superman we want. But he doesn't stop there. Harkening back to the early days, Sanderson provides physics-compliant explanations for Superman's powers where he can, and makes the rest into innate abilities possessed by all Kryptonians. Rather than rebooting Superman's story from the beginning, he tells the story of how Superman goes about his daily life, how he blends into the populace and his motives for doing so rather than setting himself up as a god. I don't know what the conflict would be in this story; I do know that it would provide the twists Sanderson is famous for. And into this story, he would weave flashbacks to Jor-El and Lara on Krypton, giving us insights into Kryptonian culture, society, and traditions; these would be presented in alternating chapters with flashbacks to Clark Kent's early days in Kansas, comparing and contrasting these two ways of life and making us wonder what Superman would be like had he grown up as Kal-El rather than Clark Kent. In short, Brandon Sanderson would write one of the best, if not the best, portrayals of Superman since the great writers of the past. Snyder would be unable to adapt this story without changing his approach entirely.

Yesss more fans! I also love the way it doesn't dumb anything down—how it's a wacky adventure show, but the consequences of those wacky adventures are played straight. And there are so many positive messages in there that are just—there. It's like, they're not trying to call attention to those messages; they're just added in as part of the story. Season 1 and 2 spoilers: I'm not sure. I usually watch them on TV, though a quick search of Netflix didn't turn anything up. Anyone know of any good places to watch?

But not so powerful he can rule a city and pretend he doesn't, like the mighty Metronome.

This has always really bugged me about comic book universes. Villains' motives, when revealed to the reader, are often "for the evulz" or "for some petty revenge scheme." There are exceptions, like Mister Freeze, who only wanted to revive his wife, but someone like the Joker is going to offend again the day after he is released or escapes, and when that happens, people are going to die. I know why they don't kill off big-name villains like the Joker. It's because readers recognize him, they like reading about him, and he's a darned good idea and writers don't just come up with those every day, you know. (Unless you're Brandon Sanderson, but I doubt he'll write for DC or Marvel anytime soon. ) But by adding Joker Immunity to a universe that has been taking itself increasingly seriously over the past thirty or so years, writers inadvertently create a universe where heroes put their own discomfort over public safety. Batman won't kill the Joker because he doesn't trust himself not to keep killing—but no one else is going to kill him, either, so he has effectively doomed Gotham to a new reign of terror every time the Joker escapes from Arkham. (So, basically once a week.) I didn't see Jupiter Ascending (though the Honest Trailer almost made me want to for sheer hilarity) but I think the last example of the Heroes Don't Kill™ morality trope that really made me scream at the characters was on Once Upon a Time. Now, I get why everyone was upset that Snow tricked Regina into killing Cora. That's pretty dark. But in later episodes, people in Storybrooke seemed more upset that Snow had gotten Cora killed at all. They were so scandalized that Snow, a Hero™, would kill another human being that they wound up driving her into even deeper depression. What they apparently forgot was that Cora was basically an unrepentant serial killer. I get the whole "magic mind control" aspect of stealing peoples' hearts, but the magical aspect does not change the facts that cardiomancy deprives human beings of their free will at least in the case of the Huntsman, it has caused serious apathy and possibly other emotional problems the act of ripping a heart out causes the victim intense pain she keeps them in drawers in her closet, which is serious serial killer behavior For Regina, the case can be made that she wanted to reform for some time, and eventually did. Not so with Cora. She was unrepentant to the end, making it clear that the only way to ensure the safety of Storybrooke was to kill her. And when she's finally killed, the inhabitants don't even consider the bigger picture. They just rub Snow's face in the fact that she was a Hero™ and she killed someone. WWII, so I can do some firsthand research. Then I'd visit America a hundred years, then fifty, then twenty, then two, years before Columbus. Archaeology has unearthed some fascinating, turn-previous-theories-on-their-heads-and-laugh-at-them evidence of seriously advanced pre-Columbian societies, but we have so little to go on it's tragic. (Please don't get me started on why we have so little to go on; it's late and I'd rather not start up a rant against the conquistadors right now. ) I would use my time machine to take some serious notes on those societies and so preserve their existence for future generations. You know, probably not. I'd strive to live a good life, and to do everything I could to make the world a better place, but I think the only thing that knowledge would change is that I'd take the idea of my getting married someday more seriously—treat it as a "when" rather than an "if." If I knew my descendant would save humanity (or, you know, help it along in a big way), and I was given no instruction along with that tidbit, I would assume that my life ought to follow the trajectory it would have followed had I never received that knowledge. So I'd live a good life, but I wouldn't stress it too much.

How did I wind up in a love triangle with two OP Epics? And just like that, family arguments became much, much simpler.

Yes....but if you were standing next to Obliteration, they'd probably see you ringed with golden light or something. And Obliteration might be more inclined to defend his brother-in-law.