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“He had loved his arrow’s movement, its burning ambition in the sunlight.”

Decided I wasn’t reading enough books simultaneously.

Libby automatic return🥲🥲 tragic

Oof kuang loves a toxic mentor relationship

Ran out of listening hours on Spotify and still waiting for my hold at my library on Libby🥲🥲

Not this rando Perrin guy now leading Egwain (idk how to spell any of their names). Patriarchy shows up. These male fantasy/SF authors are giving me some sort of second feminist awakening

First women in the whole book has just shown up, 80% in

This is so fun

“You rely invariable on authority or on the past, and never on yourselves.”

“No, I did not promise to go. I only smirked, and bowed, and said the word ‘happy.’”

What is this Odium’s champion nonsense

Weird as hell but getting more bearable!!

Okay but like why and how has Kaladin suddenly acquired a degree in psychology between this book and the previous…

I kinda hate the description of “zooming in” on a map in this book. It feels like such a weird anachronistic word

Anna Karenina mentioned!!

“I was in the slipstream of his status as a firebrand.”

“Erase family names, erase nations — I was taught such things by the desert.”

“…continuing with the song her mother had taught her, that she practiced on any surface. A kitchen table, a wall while she walked upstairs, her own bed before she fell asleep. They had no piano.”

“These are permanent winds, which live in the present tense.”

Reading YA in French let’s goooo

This book is really good and I wish I’d read it before going to Croatia / while there. Zagreb takes on a different light

“One who preferred her own sorrows to all the joys in the world.”

The backstory Sanderson gives Dalinar is actually insane

Kaplan really needs to read Edward Said’s writing on Orientalism, bc he says some crazy things in this book.

Currently on my Robert Kaplan pilgrimage of Zagreb… Belgrade up soon

Lots of criticism of this book, and I can understand why! But I’m learning lots and loving the writing style.

“‘You must have patience, young man. It is a long story.’ I will shorten it.”

Ugh poor kaladin😭

I’m re-reading this series before I read the new 5th book (also bc I need some juicy audiobooks and a distraction) and wow I really didn’t notice the first time the extent to which so much of Sanderson’s prose is like reading a video game description. “The translucence was one of the most wonderful parts of shard plate” like okay random exposition in action scene

“…on the principle of it being very un-genteel to be curious…”

Agonizing stuff

Exactly the silly sort of book I was looking for