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I just stumbled across this, and feel the need to share it somewhere.

Now this is the kind of quality content I like to procrastinate important work with.

The most majestic green chicken of them all.

I had the exact same thoughts. Every week I try to resist, because I have so much else to do, but I inevitably get nothing done until I've read the new chapters. The book comes out just as I finish exams, and I have a few days off before I go back to work, so I know exactly what I'm spending that time on!

I never realised they were the UK/US covers. I like the US covers, but NZ bookshops sell the UK ones apparently... Now I have to buy them all like that to keep my collection consistent! One thing I appreciate about the UK covers is the colour scheme thing they have going. All the covers are in the same style, but each series has a different colour. Mistborn is blue, Stormlight is red, Elantris is green, Warbreaker is purple... All the books look related, but series are differentiated by colour. It's kinda neat

A flat major, of course!!

@Calderis Fair enough. I think I remember seeing you say that now actually. I haven't read into many threads recently - exams are looming - so apologies if I missed some stuff

This instantly made me think of The Laughing Gnome by David Bowie ("What's that clicking noise?" "That's Fred, he's a metro-gnome!") Also: What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft? A flat minor What do pianists eat with? A tuning fork

What makes you say that? I think it makes fairly good sense. Like I've seen people say elsewhere, this is the first time we've seen Dalinar hold a significant amount of Stormlight, so he may not have been able to heal his memory before now. Memory loss can be attributed to a physical cause (synaptic and neuronal degradation). It seems logical that it is something Stormlight can heal, and the Nightwatcher can damage by selectively severing synapses or whatever. Definitely not saying this is what happened, just that I can find a reasonable explanation for it. It would be cool if it was a way into learning about the rest of the magic system, as @Shadowfax just said.

@Sami it's a STAR Labs hoodie, yeah. Bought it at a convention last year

@Jonathon The Winds of Winter is the next book in A Song of Ice and Fire (the Game of Thrones series), and The Doors of Stone is the last book in the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Been a few years waiting for each, and past the date both authors said they'd be releasing them...

As a uni student recently moved out of home, flatting is... interesting. I grew up on a budget and doing plenty around the house, but half my flat has very little concept of how to budget or think for themselves. Like, no, we don't need to buy premade sauces/breadcrumbs/whatever, we already have everything we need to make that. Yes, it is possible to cook something without burning the bottom of the pot black. No, you shouldn't put your washing in the dryer in the middle of the day, it's sunny out and your room has a balcony. If you're in a t shirt and shorts in the middle of winter, the correct response is to put more clothes on, not turn your heater up to full.

I've seen this a bunch of times, and it never fails to make me laugh.

When you have multiple assignments due tomorrow, but you put them off in favour of reading the entire manuscript of Aether of Night. When using your grocery money to preorder Oathbringer is a very real thought. When you get basically no work done Wednesday mornings because you're reading the new Oathbringer chapters.

I don't have much of a problem with it; I'm not familiar enough with the books to pass judgement. My mum read the series to me when I was a kid, it's her complaint

The Game of Thrones format would be perfect for Stormlight imo - spend a little bit of time with each POV character each week, and overall get much more screentime to tell the story. Prince Caspian is a half decent movie on its own, but not a faithful adaptation of the book. That's where a lot of the complaints come from - unnecessary fight scenes, forced love story, addition of characters who have no good reason to be where they are, to add more ~drama~ and ~action~ to it. I don't think it's so much disappointment as reservation. I'm sure most of us will watch any adaptations that are made. It's just that, based on numerous previous adaptations and the people involved, there is a high chance it won't be done too well, so we're not getting our hopes up too much.

Eragon almost caused me physical pain. Percy Jackson wasn't great either. They're two book series I hold dear, so I'm fiercely protective of other good books being made into movies. It can be done well, it's just not very likely. I feel like Mistborn fits better to movie adaptation, but Stormlight is too large a scale to properly do it justice. I'm hoping for the best, but also expecting the worst.

@Frostlander Just chipping in re: Renolin - I just put Adolin's understanding of him as experience. My brother is non-verbal, and not many people know how to talk to him, but we can communicate fine, as a result of living most of our lives together.

@officiumdefunctorum Just skim-reading something on the Kodaly method. It looks interesting, I'm gonna look into it better when I've got a bit more time. Learning interval relationships seems like a useful way to teach - I'm useless with that, but I have a good memory for the absolute pitch of most stuff I've heard. Possibly a result of playing piano for so long? I've only had a few months of group singing lessons at high school, and a good chunk of that was learning to harmonise with the rest of the group along to a guitar, with no sheet music. @Sunchicken Sight-reading for piano is a whole different beast! I used to be quite frustrated with myself for not being good at it, but it's the difference between one line of melody on the treble clef, and up to six notes at a time between the treble and bass!! Here, have a joke to keep this relevant:

Rashek vs. Dilaf "I am God!" "Heathen!!!" Philosophy conversations with Jasnah and Ham would be interesting.

I'm procrastinating, so have a sideways photo of my face. Because I can't figure out how to rotate it. (I'm nearly 20, but people at work ask me often if I'm old enough to serve alcohol )

I didn't read the whole book, because I just picked it up somewhere and read a bit while waiting for something, but The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puértolas is just as ridiculous as it sounds. My mum read me sections of a Terry Pratchett book she was reading one time. Unsure of the name. Death goes on holiday, and there's a dyslexic rooster?

@Hood we didn't do much in high school - titrations and flame tests was about as good as it got. University chemistry is a whole different ballpark though I sent a video of the barking dog experiment to the group that do crazy demonstrations for the science roadshow and they're going to look into it.

I both envy and admire decent sight readers. My piano sight reading is terrible, and my saxophone sight reading is questionable at best. I couldn't even begin to sight read for singing. However, I can deliver on terrible singer jokes: What's the definition of an alto? A soprano who can sightread. How many sopranos does it take to change a lightbulb? One. She holds the bulb and the world revolves around her. How many altos does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They can't get that high.