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Wind and Truth baby. Approaching the halfway point. It's paced excellently. It's impressive how he makes every scene have gravity without weighing the story down.
Still reading Altered Traits physically. It's more biographical than I prefer, but it did inspire me to make an effort at meditating. All the (valid) short term/small sample stuff aside, it's impressive how much a minute of simple breathing exercises at the beginning and on break of my workday changed how I felt at the end of the day yesterday. I was thinking of exploring meditation through yoga, but with more consideration I think finding the right kata from a martial art would suit me better.
Audible had some deals, so I went a little overboard
I'm up to H is for Homicide in Kinsey Milhone. I'll finish those from the library first.
I bought:
28 books in Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series.
7 books in her Shaye Archer.
4 main books of Skyward by Sanderson.
A little overboard, but at about $2.50 a book I couldn't resist. I have a nice little backlog going for now.
I finished Wind and Truth.
Spoilers
So despite the spoiler tag, I'm not going to mention actual details. But I think my impressions themselves could change how someone reads the book, so I'm tagging it anyways.Wow. Just fucking wow. It's not at all how I expected shit to go, but holy shit was it a hell of a ride, and the story it set up? Damn.
I need the next 5 books. I hope the timeline of the next setting is sooner than I had been expecting. It feels like a lot of threads that were winding up ripped wide open instead. The end result make the whole 5 book arc feel like a new beginning to something truly absurdly scaled. "There's always another secret."
All I'll say without tags is that as high as my expectations were, he blew them away.
Not going to read the spoilers. May come back in an year or so to look at them though.
Glad to hear that it's great!
I was probably liberal with the tag, but I'd rather lean towards not impacting the experience at all.
My head was spinning that night with all the possibilities for the second half though. (I definitely didn't start War of Kings as a physical book immediately after to see what extra details I pick up. That would make me a crazy person.)
Haha, I don't think it would make you a crazy person, just shows the impact of the final book.
And thanks for being liberal with it, I want to know nothing about it, no matter how small.
lol I was joking because I did exactly that.
The context of knowing the whole series lets you pick up a lot of detail all the way back to the opening scene of Way of Kings.
Heh, I took it as you really wanted to, but didn't. I stand corrected.