So what are you reading this year 2021?

[CleverNickName]

I started a thread for a summer reading list over at this elegant and finely-crafted link. If you've got a moment, and if you feel inspired to do so, I'd like to invite you to nominate (and vote for!) some excellent books to your fellow ENWorlders.

 

[Zaukrie]

About 80 pages into Mistborn.....I see why people like it so much.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It really is quite good. I think Elantris remains my favorite Sanderson novel, but Mistborn is my favorite series of his.

About 80 pages into Mistborn.....I see why people like it so much.

I finished reading The Face of Chaos. I read it many years ago, not long after it first came out, and it still holds up. One thing that I noticed that doesn't get talked about enough, is that the Thieves World series is probably the most concentrated collection of women writing Sword & Sorcery.

Now I'm reading another anthology, Peter Bebergal's Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons.

 

[KahlessNestor]

It really is quite good. I think Elantris remains my favorite Sanderson novel, but Mistborn is my favorite series of his.

Interesting. Elantris is what got me into Sanderson, but it's usually considered his weakest novel, since it was his first published. It's usually overshadowed by Mistborn, Mistborn Era 2, and Stormlight. I definitely want the Warbreaker sequel. I think there is an Elantris sequel somewhere in the State of Sanderson...eventually.

 

[ART!]

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, by Matthew Dicks. It's ostensibly a first-person narrative told by the imaginary friend of a withdrawn, picked-on elementary school-aged boy. The author seems to be building a metaphor for the parts of ourselves that interact differently with the exterior world than other parts. The boy's parents and teachers wonder if he's Autistic or how much so. I'm not very far in yet, but it's really good. The imaginary friend has some great observations about the world that the boy does not actively or outwardly know or think about.

Also: The Folk Keeper, by Franny Billingsley. It's also told in first-person, by a very self-possessed teenaged girl who's job seems to be keeping the Fae and their destructive antics at bay. Wealthy houses seek out people who have the talent for this, but don't seem to treat them very well. It's YA, but not really noticeably so

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It was my first Sanderson read as well. I dig it so much because of its introspective nature, the metaphor for chronic illness, and that it is, so far, just a stand-alone work.

Interesting. Elantris is what got me into Sanderson, but it's usually considered his weakest novel, since it was his first published. It's usually overshadowed by Mistborn, Mistborn Era 2, and Stormlight. I definitely want the Warbreaker sequel. I think there is an Elantris sequel somewhere in the State of Sanderson...eventually.

 

[KahlessNestor]

It was my first Sanderson read as well. I dig it so much because of its introspective nature, the metaphor for chronic illness, and that it is, so far, just a stand-alone work.

There is a follow up short story, and The Emperor's Soul is set on the same planet, though a different part of the world.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Yeah, I read that. Enjoyable, but not necessarily resonant to me in the same way.

There is a follow up short story, and The Emperor's Soul is set on the same planet, though a different part of the world.

 

[Richards]

I finished Destroyer #139: Dream Thing and was slightly disappointed. Unlike most Destroyer books, the events were going on all over the world and the two main characters didn't play much of a role in the main plot up until the end. That's now how most of the series goes. In addition, this had world-shattering events that can't help but be noticed by the rest of the world at large, whereas Remo and Chiun are usually engaged in events that go by unnoticed by those not immediately involved. They tend to be behinds-the-scenes actors, as is appropriate for members of a secret assassination bureau.

So now I'm on to the next unread one I own: Destroyer #142: Mindblower, in which Remo and Chiun are up against a mad inventor whose weapon creates hurricane-level gusts of air. Now that's more like it!

Johnathan

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm reading Mistborn too fast, I don't own the third book!