tatumvay

Wow, Thank you so much for that feedback, Treamayne! I will digest your post and refine the database based on that input. Originally, I meant to create this primarily to keep track of what I've read and what I need to read, but those refinements sound like they can make for a much more robust database! There are some very amazing and impressive tools out there to track connections and such, so I don't see this being any more than a "checklist" of books. (But perhaps I should share it with people who are starting their Cosmere journey, not with a bunch of experts on the 17th Shard forum!) Thank you for this feedback; this has me questioning my logic for the column headers. Originally, I wanted "Saga" to be what series the book is from, which might be a better label. I also explained in the Column Definitions that I’ve decided to track the novellas/short stories that appear in “Arcanum Unbounded” separately but also included the novel form as an entry. This is just a preference; I intended this to be a general template to get my friend (or anyone who needed something like this) started, so I added both options - one to track granularly (down to individual short stories/novellas) or to reduce clutter, just tracking "Arcanum Unbound" as one novel. Probably very confusing, but I wanted to include both options. This is a great suggestion! I originally intended this to just track what I owned (in my "Collection") but I'll look into this when I learn more! I've read all of Stormlight + Novellas, Mistborn Era 1 and Era 2 minus The Lost Metal, Warbreaker, and Tress of the Emerald Sea. I've got Elantris on my desk right now and Arcanum Unbound on the way and looking forward to getting through all of it soon. Appreciate the feedback and aloha! - Tatum

Aloha, Thank you everyone for the warm wishes as I just joined the forum this week! I hope this is allowed, but please go ahead and take this down if it's not: As I've proclaimed that I'd like to become fully immersed in the Cosmere, I created a Notion database to track my reading progress. I was sending it to a friend and had to do some work to explain it to him... as such, I wondered if this would be of value to anyone else, so I decided to create a "public" copy in case someone might find it useful: https://www.notion.so/tatumvay/Cosmere-Reading-To-Share-34fcdede51624f9b863f82e77ad5d800?pvs=4 If you'd like to use it, please go up to "Duplicate" the page into your own Notion Workspace. Below the database, there is a toggle list of "Column Definitions" that explains how I've organized the columns, their data fields, and some of my reasoning behind them. You can click on the carrot next to the title to expand/minimize this list. I've included a screenshot of it as well. You'll have to excuse the information if anything is inaccurate, as I'm only about 46% done with reading the relevant Cosmere texts. I'm always open to feedback and refinement. Please let me know if you have any suggestions and I hope it's useful to someone else! Happy tracking! - Tatum

My reaction: boy, this was a fun one! I had a huge grin on my face - the book, when it arrived, is just gorgeous! I'm so proud to have it as an addition to the bookshelf. Most notably, Tress will go down as the book that finally convinced me to finish the rest of the Cosmere that hasn't been on my reading list, which are the books from Mistborn Era 2, Elantris, Arcanum Unbound, and White Sand.

The timing of this Con will actually work out better for me this year! I missed 2022 because, living in Hawaii, I couldn't really justify getting a trip out to do, as Argent aptly puts it, a "glorified book launch." Now I might be able to compile this trip with some pre-existing Thanksgiving travel opportunities to finally make it! When I pitched it to my wife, she wasn't automatically opposed to the idea so fingers crossed!

Thank you for the heads up and many apologies! I'll explore the mechanics of the forum, especially the multi-quote function, for next time; very much appreciate the feedback!

If I can say a book that I started but haven't finished, it would be "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace; I started this back in 2009 and took a hiatus from reading fiction for ten years and haven't gotten back to it. Once I catch up on Cosmere, it's definitely on my list!

I have to say "The Way of Kings"; you didn't ask for reasoning, but here it is - I read the Era 1 Mistborn trilogy during the 2020 Lockdowns after a decade of reading exclusively non-fiction books (from 2009 - 2020!) I enjoyed them as much as anything else I read before I took my "fiction hiatus". Then I decided to take on Stormlight, which my friend recommended - Mistborn Era 1 was great but THIS book is what has kept me reading Sanderson since.

Thank you!

Aloha, Thank you for having me! I had an 11-year hiatus from reading fiction novels until the start of the pandemic when Mistborn became the first of which I've read since 2009! I've been reading on and off ever since. I'm a long-time lurker but I'll admit - I generally avoid the internet because of spoilers. I've read all of Stormlight, Mistborn Era 1 and 2 (except Lost Metal) but, after reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, I have decided (like yesterday) that I wanted to become more "Cosmere Aware" and tackle all of the written works within it; I thought finally signing up to 17th Shard would be a great start for my journey! Looking forward to lurking more and hopefully joining some discussions in the future. Aloha from Honolulu, Hawaii! - Tatum