Argent

It does start off slowly. Very little happens in the first few chapters.

Rusts! I've been plowing through books lately, and I am forgetting my Cosmere.

On that note, I find it remarkable that Google-ing "Catacendre" brings up pretty much only links to this site and ones related to it. Inventing a word on the Internet is pretty difficult.

At this point I am pretty sure the references to the "God Beyond" are not references to Threnody, per se, but to something bigger, potentially Cosmere-wide.

Traitor. Am I the only person here not affected by this madness?!

There is this "Great Catacendre" again. I am now mostly convinced it refers to the years between the freeing of Ruin and the rise of Harmony - "cendre" is the French word for "ash" (or so Google Translate tells me), and "cata" is strongly reminiscent of cataclysm. Ash Cataclysm, or maybe Ash Apocalypse, is what it means in my head. Oooh, aluminum-lined hats. Tinfoil hats are real on Scadrial and they work!

Equal Rites down. Onto Wyrd Sisters. I wouldn't mind if all the Witches subseries is this quick and light to read. I felt that the second half of the Wizards subseries went downhill for the most part.

I just now realized this prologue must be from his past. Initially I assumed that it takes place after The Alloy of Law, Wax going to the Roughs for some reason. His levity feels far less out of character after this realization...

The humor - or at least the levity - of the conversations made an impression on me as well. It's been a while since I read The Alloy of Law, but I don't remember Wax talking like this, I remembered him as more... solemn. Not entirely, but more in that direction. Still, I like him. I also now ship him and Lessie. Waxie is now a thing.

Finished Uprooted. Absolutely amazing book. I could gush about it at length, but instead I am just going to say that I liked it more than some of Brandon's books. Which, given my near-religious zeal about him and his works, should speak volumes. As for my current read, I am about halfway through Pratchett's Equal Rites. I am going to try to finish the Witches subseries in the next few weeks, and then jump on The Price of Valor (Django Wexler's third book in The Shadow Campaigns series) and Queen of Fire (Anthony Ryan's third book in the Raven's Shadow series), both of which come out early in July.

Generally speaking, when people in the US say "Spring" they - we - mean March, April, and May.

And here is the link!

Argent has been World of Warcraft-ing hardcore the last few days, so that's at most plus 0.4.

Wow. Not only did I miss copying it, I don't recall reading this in the first place. I'll update... =\ http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/csfilfm?context=10000

Team compact, go!

Somebody is going to have to put all this stuff in the interview database. That sounds like a lot more work to me. In a way I am taking the easy way out

I don't know, we are all dead.

Elend or Jasnah.

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Which one is made after the other? I started and finished The Shadow of Elysium this weekend in an attempt to refresh myself on Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns series universe, since the third one is coming out soon. I thought it was alright, not exceptional, but not bad either. It's starting to look like the these between-books novellas will tell a story of their own, and that's exciting to me. Now I am reading Naomi Novik's Uprooted. I've heard a lot of good things about it, and with only a few chapters in, I am not surprised. It's still a little heavier on exposition than what I would call ideal, but the writing is enthralling and compelling, the characters - engaging.

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Some - myself included - find the second one a bit of a letdown, but the third one is definitely at least as good as the first. I finished The Liar's Key, the second book in Mark Lawrence's The Red Queen's War series. It might be my favorite Lawrence book so far. I wasn't too big of a fan of his Broken Empire series, the protagonist was just such an unlikeable person to begin with. But these, these are more more solid - both in terms of the protagonist (who is still kind of not a very good person), but also in terms of the writing. It's been improving since the very first book Mark wrote, and that's a very good thing. I am reading Django Wexler's The Shadow of Elysium now. I'll probably jump in a standalone or two after it, I don't want to start new series for a couple of weeks, since both The Price of Valor and Queen of Fire come out in the beginning of July and I would like to get them out of the way before I go back to, for example, Pratchett.

We don't actually know whether Stannis' story has changed. For all we know he might die early in Winds of Winter.

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