Sunbird

penguin sweater (Yes, this is an actual thing!)

You didn't insert anything, so you get a handful of dust. *inserts campfire*

It surely is a brick! That's one reason I'm glad I'm reading it on my Kindle. I just have to read the equivalent of 10 print pages to advance 1% on the progress bar. XD On a slightly related note: when I read the Way of Kings for the first time, I checked out a copy from the BYU Library, and boy, was that a pain to haul around. It was the full-size hardcover edition, and there was something wrong with the library security device on it so that whenever I went through the security gates at the library, the alarm would blare at me because it thought I was trying to steal a book I hadn't checked out. That happened every single time I went in or out of the library while I was reading the book, which was at least twice every day since I work there. Eventually it got to the point where I would take the book out of my backpack long before going through the gate so I didn't have to rifle through my bag to get it out for the security staff to check. And the security staff started recognizing me and expecting the alarm to go off when I went through.

That's why I asked. If you are vegetarian, I will gladly bring a cheese pizza for you. Heck, Little Caesar's only charges $5 a pizza, so maybe I'll bring 2 pepperoni and 1 cheese and I can take home the leftovers.

When you have dreams about Bands of Mourning... BoM spoilers:

When you stay online until 12:30 am despite the fact that you have to get up at 7 tomorrow morning, because you just finished Secret History and need to geek out about it.

For sake of clarity... We should have gone from Chicken's stats... To these stats which I have altered to match Chasmfiend's apparent intentions and remove the other differences between his post and Chicken's... And now I will make my changes: Windrunner 9 Skybreaker 6 Dustbringer 5 Edgedancer 3 Lightweaver 4 Elsecaller 15 Truthwatcher 9 Stoneward 6

Thanks for the heads-up! I started and finished Mistborn: Secret History today. SO AWESOME. I loved seeing the "behind the scenes" of the original Mistborn trilogy. Makes me want to go back and re-read them. I also plowed through about half of a book called Chasing the Skip by Janci Patterson. It's about a teen girl whose absentee father is a "bounty hunter" of sorts (he hunts down and arrests people who pay bail and then don't show up for their court date, and gets paid for doing it), and she ends up tagging along with him on his job after her mom disappears. I like it so far. I also plan to start reading sometime soon Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a book that one of my friends on GoodReads recommended to me.

Parrot cage

I am offend! I am myself making the chowder, and you will like! You get a Sunbird happily dipping chocolates in the peanut fondue, mollified by your offering of sweets. *inserts Adolin Kholin*

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I also think Calamity was amazing. However, I kind of have the opposite opinion as you about Dan Wells's books--I enjoyed the first 2 Partials books more than the 3rd and was quite entertained by Bluescreen. (I guess we both agree that Fragments was awesome, though!) Have you read his John Cleaver series yet? I think they're his best books. Thanks for warning me away from Lost Gate. I have also found myself disappointed with the kind of content in Orson Scott Card's books, though i haven't read nearly as many as some people. I would've thought that as an LDS author, he would write cleaner stuff. As for the Dresden Files... I had to significantly raise my tolerance level for foul language in order to read those. Even now, that series about hits my limit for what I'm wiling to put up with. I do put up with it mainly because I like Harry Dresden too much to stop reading about him. Lots of people have been talking about this Lies of Locke Lamora; I will have to go investigate it... As for slower pacing, I think it works in some books and for some authors and not in others. In my opinion, there needs to be something interesting or at least relevant to the plot going on at all times, but that thing doesn't necessarily have to be fight scenes and car chases and explosions all the time. Regular old conversations can be critically important too. My favorite example of a slow-burning plot that absolutely works is Brandon's own Stormlight books. Yeah, they're a storming 1000 pages long, but they're never boring because there's always something interesting going on, or something that makes you ask questions, or explorations into the strange world of Roshar. And all that slow buildup is totally worth the explosive, mind-blowing climax.

Sunbird cocks her head as she considers BramFinem's idea. "I think awkward swords would be a great idea!" she chimes in. Then a worried expression crosses her face and she adds, "As long as we're not so awkward that we end up mutilating each other by accident..."

Whyyyyy... Granted, but now the majority of the Stormlight fandom hates you. I wish to have my car all paid off tomorrow.

When the Shard goes offline for a few minutes and this is your reaction:

Beware the Ides of March

I dream very frequently about flying. But even my dream self knows I'm really not supposed to be flying, so it's difficult. I always feel like I'm treading water in molasses. I remember one time I had this dream where Smaug was trying to burn my house down, so I jumped out the 2nd-story window, turned into a dragon myself, and tried to chase him off by shooting fire at him. Didn't really work since his scales were super tough and fire-resistant, and I'm sure if anybody else had seen what I was seeing that night, it would have looked ridiculous, because I was this cutesy little dragon like Toothless trying to chase off ginormous ferocious-looking Smaug. XD

After reading all y'all's posts about not knowing other Sharders in person, I feel spoiled. I'm one of the lucky people who lives in Provo, Utah, where there are lots of Sharders.

That was my first thought too when they mentioned that ettmetal explodes on contact with water. But doesn't metallic sodium also react with elements present in the air, albeit less violently?

Granted, Bugsy wishes that evil Epics are real. But your bane is that David isn't around to help defeat them. I wish for a pepperoni pizza.

Also, I can probably bring the pizza this time if we do end up going with the 16th. I noticed last time that the pepperoni disappeared first, so is there anyone who objects to my bringing 2 pepperoni pizzas instead of one pepperoni and one cheese?

How did we go from these stats... ... to these? I'm just going to treat the last post as if it read like this, so that everything remains the same as Observer's post except that Windrunner is healed by 1 and Lightweaver and Willshaper are hurt by 1 each, since that seems to have been Chasmfiend's intention: Thus, the new stats with my hurt and heal are as follows: Windrunner 8 Skybreaker 5 Dustbringer 6 Edgedancer 4 Lightweaver 8 Elsecaller 14 Truthwatcher 10 Bondsmith 19 Willshaper 0 Stoneward 8

I discovered the same things, both with the auto-select in other categories and the consistency of this issue in Firefox and IE. Glad it's not just me.