PeterAhlstrom

If you're writing in first person, italics for thoughts is not needed, because you're already in the person's head. If you're writing in third person, italics for thoughts is very much standard practice. There are many types of thought sentences that are NOT immediately easily distinguishable from the narration unless they're in italics. If they're just set as normal text it's very distracting and trips me up. However, some people do mess up italics. Larry Correia's Grimnoire books often have italics for indirect thoughts, and that's not the standard. Indirect thoughts go in roman, and direct thoughts go in italics.

My review is up on Brandon's blog.

Elhokar's eyes were described as two different colors in different places in the first book. It also said that he looked very much like his father. So we decided to change his eye color to match Gavilar's. We need to update the first book.

We watched 3 episodes of Mushishi, and the plot didn't make sense. Also it was boring. So we stopped. And for something completely different, we've watched 6 or so episodes of Haikyuu! Unless you count Chihayafuru (which you probably should), it's the first sports anime I've been able to get Karen to enjoy. She prefers her anime to have some kind of fantastic element. Though you could argue that Haikyuu does have a fantastic element, but it's only kids being better at sports than the average person. We watched 6 minutes of RBWY and said "what the heck is this crap?" and turned it off. We are watching SAO II and enjoying it, even if Kirito is more of a Mary Sue than ever. Hunter X Hunter continues to be highly entertaining. The two plots right now are going unexpected places, but HxH does that a lot. We also watched all of Knights of Sidonia on Netflix. I'm glad that's getting a second season.

Yep, it's an error. This is fixed in the UK individual editions. Maybe not fixed in the UK omnibus.

You cannot do a waterproofing test of a Sanderbot without waterproofed papers.

The papers are Legion: Skin Deep. You can see them in a book in November!

I asked Brandon about that "Full Feruchemist" question and he said he misread the question.

I think it's pretty clear in the book that Mraize is from Thaylenah.

Don't read too much into the "crushing blow" thing. I actually added the word "crushing." I'm sure Brandon will revise it in a later draft. I just didn't want it to simply say a blow to the head will kill you, when obviously some blows to the head will not be enough to kill you. Also, Jasnah could be wrong.

My first was Dragonsteel. I didn't read Elantris until maybe years later.

This is not a coincidence.

I tried to read the first book and just could not get past the comma splices, they were too distracting. It's possible I could handle it better as an audiobook, where that wouldn't be an issue.

I'm reading The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks. Comes out at the end of the month. I'm between 2/3 and 3/4 done. If you liked the second book, you'll like this one too.

I have book 3 but I can't read it until I'm done with my Hugo reading.

Toward the end there is an offscreen rape followed by onscreen sex. And at the beginning there's some sex-almost-happens. I wouldn't call it clean. I didn't read the sequels.

Brandon will be releasing an official I Am a Stick shirt.

Reya is somebody. But I don't think I've seen anyone speculate about the person that he or she is.

Anne McCaffrey's dragon books.

I don't actually know the answer, but I wouldn't bet on that.

We could not make it through the first episode. By the time the profanity-ridden fight over a kilo of cocaine started in the male prostitute's room, there wasn't any character to root for, so we turned it off.

I haven't gone and read the review yet, but it's not a mistake to associate the Stormlight Archive with the Wheel of Time and A Song of Ice and Fire. They are all series with 1,000-page books that use the "continuous narrative" style where one book picks up right after the last one left off. (At least for the first 5 books of SLA.) And reasons notwithstanding, we did already have a 3.5-year wait between the first and second books.

I just mean that in the English language, the usage percentage of "symbiote" is down in the error range for the correct term, "symbiont." Hal Clement once claimed to have accidentally invented "symbiote," but he was not the first person to accidentally use it.

Actually, symbiont is the preferred term, not symbiote.

This thread is for discussion Brandon's Magic: The Gathering post on June 9th, 2014. http://brandonsanderson.com/introducing-augmented-draft/