“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
— Haldir
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Books of 2026: Mistborn Era 1
Mistborn: The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson I first read Mistborn almost 20 years ago, after enjoying Elantris a great deal…and I bounced off it HARD. It was such a grim dark world, Vin was insufferable and “not like the other girls” in my eyes, and I just…
Books of 2026: Hemlock and Silver
Hemlock and Silver, by T. Kingfisher I picked up this one at a Boozy Book Fair (the local independent bookstore made a deal with a local pub to host a book fair, and it was a smashing success). Took me a minute to read it, but I was enthralled. I love twists on fairy tales…
Books of 2026: There is no antimemetics division
This year or late last, I read “There is no antimemetics division” by qntm. This is a delightfully bizarre story based on stories from the SCP wiki. I would like to read more novel-form-factor SCP stories. It bears a certain similarity to Ruin, and I’ll say no more about that.
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