Songstress

Hey, hey now... I have seen the inside of a gym. I read most of Alloy of Law and WoK on my Kindle while on the treadmill. In fact, I have a horrible time making it to L.A. Fitness when I'm not currently engrossed in reading a new Brandon Sanderson novel, because I buy them all on Kindle and refuse to let myself read e-books at home when I have a large stack of paperbacks waiting to be read. OK, that's not much of a defense against being a pasty nerd.

*waves to the FNG* Your welcome cookie and/or hemalurgic spikes should be along shortly... make yourself at home, but make sure not to drink out of the milk jug or get your shoes on the furniture. You may get scolded.

Chapter 20 is up!

Pssh, you want a long boring intro, read my thread! Welcome! Your cookie should be along shortly...

Because cats are smarter than us and clearly meant to take over the world. Especially when spiked.

Oh yay! I adore first read/reread commentary and blogs! I'm saving my next re-read for spring/summer so I'll finish closer to the AMOL release... plus I'm currently re-reading Way of Kings and have a stack of paperbacks that are awaiting a first read (including the first books in both the Malazan Book of the Fallen and the Codex Alera series). But I will totally follow along if you post your thoughts on your WoT readthrough!

Woot! My main was a night elf Lazerchikin... had a nelf bear/tree alt on the same server just for grins (and a whoooooole lot of other alts for that matter). I played for 5 years, quit this past January for financial reasons and due to time constraints while everyone else was leveling and gearing up after Cataclysm. May or may not go back to it at some point if the finances improve, depending on how many of my old guildies are still playing.

See, I knew you were cool. The question is, Bear, Cat, Tree, or Lazerchikin?

I just have to state that your avatar is made of win. Welcome!

Chapter 16 is up now - I'm enjoying reading this, now that I've finished the other books and can see the bits that have been cannibalized for other works.

Yeah, see, after I posted that I thought about it again, and then realized that sounded a bit silly with what real world gemstone sizes... but with all the gemstones scattered about in the series, it just seemed like bigger stones would be more common. I mean, the ones in Jasnah's fabrial, were you imagining them as little chips, or more like 1/2 inch cut stones? When reading, I wasn't thinking of real-world values and sizes for things like emeralds and diamonds and rubies, I was picturing them big And then there's that.

I use my Kindle app on my desktop solely for geeking out and searching text to post on forums. Sanderson, Brandon (2010-08-31). The Way of Kings (p. 69). Macmillan. Kindle Edition. Sanderson, Brandon (2010-08-31). The Way of Kings (p. 69). Macmillan. Kindle Edition. I imagine the largest denominations may be a bit bigger to accommodate the larger stones, as the size of a thumbnail is a bit small.

This post is made of utter and complete win. <3

Brings to mind the movie "Multiplicity"...

You got more than one cookie? /jealous

Just from the forum description I figured that was the case... and then after obsessively reading introduction threads and seeing that advice repeated multiple times, the decision was reinforced. Thanks for the welcome!

Awesome! Hugs are some of the bestest things ever!! (And less fattening than cookies!) I'm glad to be here! Y'all* seem to be a wondrous sort of insane, just my style (* I'm not a southerner, but I have appropriated "y'all" as it is a very useful word to indicate the second person plural. Alternate word choices could include "youse" but... yeah, no.)

I can haz cookie? *blinks eyes adorably* Thank you!

I clicked through to that link and immediately said... "OMG, it's Faramir!" Which of course made me think "Hmm... Sean Bean as Marsh? Nahh." I've yet to see 300 (TRAVESTY, I KNOW!), so I suppose I should actually see him in more than one role before I decide whether I could see him as Kelsier. Interesting thought, though.

Hello all! I've been lurking around here for a week or so and thought I'd introduce myself for now, although I'll probably be easing myself into posting in the other forums as I'm still a couple of books short of having caught up on the available works of Brandon Sanderson. This is my third fantasy-lit-related forum membership, all under the same username, so if you happen to see something from Songstress at Westeros.org or Dragonmount.com, that would also be me. I'm not horribly active as a poster on either of them, but I spend entirely too much time reading threads that remotely interest me. And some that don't. I'm kind of compulsive about forum-reading. I hate to leave threads un-read. So... From the other welcome/introduction threads I've read, I expect I'll be asked how I came across Brandon's work. If you figure that (due to the above-mentioned Dragonmount.com membership) it was through his work on WoT, you'd be correct. Strangely enough, I didn't even start reading the Wheel of Time until a year after The Gathering Storm was released. Now entering Life Story mode! I've been a voracious reader since I was a kid, often coming home from the library with 10-15 books at a time. I read a bit of fantasy in my teens and twenties (I'm a bit beyond that now... but it's not polite to ask a woman her age, and suffice it to say I don't look OR act my age )... Of course I read Lord of the Rings, was a huge fan of the Narnia Chronicles as well as Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet, devoured Terry Brooks' Shannara series, and dabbled a bit in sci fi, but eventually began leaning more toward mystery, suspense, thrillers, and some horror (Stephen King, John Saul, Dean Koontz, etc.). Eventually I came back to fantasy in a roundabout way. Ten years ago I married a gamer geek, who had been playing a text MUD since college. I watched over his shoulder while he played for about 3 years before I finally caved in and rolled my own character on TorilMUD - a half-elf bard who was MADE OF WIN. After I got her to max level, I started trying to level a grey elf invoker, but found it a little more difficult because suddenly all of my hubby's friends who were my leveling helpers disappeared into the void that was known as (dun dun dun...) World of Warcraft. Eventually hubby was sucked in to WoW as well, and I tried to resist, but it only took 3 months of watching him play before I succumbed. We played WoW pretty casually for the most part, until I quit my full time job and had enough free time to devote myself to a semi-serious raiding guild. And then 3 years ago, my hubby suddenly passed away (aortic dissection at the age of 31), and in a fog of grief and depression, I spent even more time playing WoW, and every spare minute reading. Not being a Blizzard fangirl before I was dragged kicking and screaming into World of Warcraft, I found myself curious about the Warcraft backstory, and began picking up the Warcraft novels at the recommendation of one of my guildies. When I'd devoured all the available Warcraft books, I asked a few fantasy-lit enthusiasts in my guild for recommendations of what to read next. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire was the immediate consensus, so I picked up books 1-4 and barely came up for air long enough to get a full time job again. You'd think these fantasy-lit friends were the ones who recommended WoT to me too, but they actually didn't -- I was giving a nutshell of the Game of Thrones plot to my massage therapist, and she was fascinated with the Stark children/direwolves connection and began to relate a bit of the Perrin storyline from the Eye of the World to me. Having gone as far as I could with ASoIaF, I tracked down a copy of EotW and decided to check it out. Before I'd finished that one, I knew I was hooked, so I started snagging copies of the rest, including The Gathering Storm. And right after I finished TGS, I bought a hardback copy of Towers of Midnight because I could not fathom waiting for the paperback (even though I'm OCD enough that I can't stand collecting a book series mixed between paperbacks and hardbacks). (As a side note, about the time GRRM's A Dance with Dragons was released, I decided to convert to e-books because of my extremely limited bookshelf space. With all the books I want to collect and re-read over and over, I just can't keep buying paperbacks, much less hardbacks.) When TOM was done, I sat there for about 10 minutes before deciding I must check out some of Brandon Sanderson's own work. So far I've read Elantris and the Mistborn trilogy (and the free preview chapters of Alloy of Law, of course). Warbreaker is on my Kindle as of yesterday and ready to read... by the time I'm done with that, I'll have picked up The Way of Kings. And then Alloy of Law... and then I'll be venturing into the other forum sections that are tempting me. Oh yeah. And after 5 years of World of Warcraft, I canceled my subscription in January of this year due to lack of time to play and a tight budget. Sometimes I still miss my moonkin. </life story mode> Let's see... Other bits and pieces about me. I go by Songstress because I love to sing, and have at times in my life been a fairly prolific writer of songs and poetry. Like many here on the forum, I also harbor an inkling of a desire to write fiction (although I really can't see myself writing fantasy - however much I like to read it). I am, unfortunately, really, really good at procrastinating, so I've never really finished anything of consequence. It's one of my talents. I currently work full time as a customer service rep at a mail order pharmacy call center... I play keyboard at my church... I have no children but two adorable kitties that act like toddlers most of the time... And I'm currently paving the road to hell with good intentions of losing weight, de-cluttering my packratted condo, and spending more time writing. So. Now that you all know MUCH MORE about me than you expected to... Anyone who's still awake have any questions?