Karen ⊰✿’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2012)

Karen ⊰✿’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

🤣🤭🥳

Chapter 26

Since my last update at chapter 17 I’ve been listening to the audio. It does make it easier how it syncs to kindle.
Shallan is becoming so different (view spoiler)[ not least because of how she now takes on different personas. Loved the bar scene!!
(hide spoiler)]

At the end of this chapter I actually said “ohhhh” out loud haha. I had been wondering about (view spoiler)[ Dalinar and “the Thrill”. If everyone who uses shard blades gets this way it is no wonder so many of them have been complete bastards. Maybe they all werent so awful to begin with but have been corrupted by the blades. Dalinar had a lot of strength and love for Gavilar to be able to stop himself.
I still want to know what changed to make him lose “the thrill” in book 1 (or was it 2?) when on the shattered plains. Was it part of him getting the visions and connecting with a spren? He spent decades as a killer and then very quickly it seemed couldn’t hold that blade anymore (hide spoiler)]

Melindam wrote: "Sammy's a terrible, but much appreciated influence on my book choices. 🤭 ❤️

Maybe we could petition Karen to rename the challenge to "how to bloat your TBR"? 😉"

lol!
I can't imagine many people joining then. We prefer our current click bait name 🤣

Yes “unite them” could mean so many things…
Back to the prologue of book 1 even…

Sammy wrote: "Teehee! Another challenge is making me write 200-word reviews for the books I use for it, so I probably will anyway 😂"

Teehee

And it doesn’t feel like he is just writing for the sake of it. Every moment has a purpose.
Amazing, really

As an aside..

Audible just recommended book five to me

62 hours and 48 minutes

#faints

So many questions! I can only imagine how much planning Sanderson put into all of this.

I think you are right re: Lift and not being watched. Perhaps that will be a fundamental flaw as I think she will end up being a bit part of what is to come. (view spoiler)[ If for nothing else, just the ability to create stormlight when there are no highstorms

Which has now made me think... in book 2 Eshonai created a highstorm, right? I wonder if the Radiants will learn to be able to do the same?
(hide spoiler)]

Sammy wrote: "My current audio is 24hrs and 59 minutes! Can I round up that minute? 😆"

Absolutely not

Haha
Kidding

I think we can let you get away with that one . Just sit for sixty seconds at the end and reflect on the book 🤣😊

@Judy

No idea about the excerpts yet - they are curious. I love how each book (and parts) have different ones that tell their own story. I can see this being a series I re-read and notice a lot more of what is going on!

We haven’t learnt much about Renarin yet, you’re right. I suspect he will become very important

Chapter 15

Shallan is so different from when we first met her! And Pattern had me LOL when he was chaperoning in an earlier chapter.
Intriguing that (view spoiler)[ she needs to become “Radiant” and not Shallan to use the sword. I wonder if this will change or will always be part of how she uses Pattern as lies are a part of that power.
(hide spoiler)]

Chapter 16
Oh. The end of that chapter was unexpected!

Chapter 17
Kalladin is the best. (view spoiler)[ I’m so glad that these ‘Parshmen’ have awakened but not taken on war form. And have their own spren… Things are definitely different to what their known history suggested should be happening (hide spoiler)]

Judy wrote: "Chapter 4

ohhhhhhh Dalinar [spoilers removed]"


Yes wasn’t that curious. And I keep thinking about how he designed this series as ten books split into two groups of 5. So we aren’t even half way through that first set. Still many reveals to come!!

Judy wrote: "Finally started this!!!

One thing I'm wondering about is whether this book is going to reveal why Dalinar can't remember his wife... clearly there's something going on with that!

I've been wond..."

Yes I suspect we will get much more of his history and the sword.

I did expect to see Jasnah’s POV by now but I guess I need to be patient (I’m at chapter 18)

Sammy wrote: "Love the Ryan Gosling picture this month Karen! An AI one I take it? (your AI pictures tend to be so much less disturbing than most I've seen! 😆)"

why thank you *bows*
I was wondering when someone would notice 😂

Yes the robot did a good job with him. Some of the others coming up this year not so much.... but they are at least realistic and not so disturbing (looking at your pictures Teddie lol)

Sounds like a good plan to reduce the amount of boxes for moving!

🥳

Yes eating food for fuel is interesting and I can only imagine will become more and more important

Chapter 7
I enjoyed seeing Kalladin (view spoiler)[ back home and how he also recognised that he has been a few different people over the last five years. Nice that he has a brother but also concerning as to what he may do to protect him. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 9
Storm light is such an important commodity now right at the time that it is so hard to get spheres due to the change in storms.
Now that (view spoiler)[ Shallan has shown that she can “combine” with Danilar I wonder if that means that if she is near Lift then she can get storm light from Lift eating? I feel like they won’t get far if they don’t find a new way of getting storm light!

Now.. this new murder. Does that mean someone saw Adolin (Renarin?) and so did this to throw people off the scent? Or maybe it is an attempt by someone who doesn’t know about Adolin to have more deaths to help Dalinar look innocent as Sadeas wasn’t an isolated incident? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 11

We get to see (view spoiler)[ Dalinar again as the Blackthorn and I’m not liking him! Considering the man he has become he was just a terrible brute back then. I wonder if he changed slowly with wisdom or did the visions really start to change him as they did Gavilar? That scene of how he gets the shardblade was awful. (hide spoiler)]

Marla wrote: "December Books

I feel silly, it just occurred to me why my TBR never decreases. The vast majority of my reads are series books, so I read one and add the next one to my TBR. So in order to reduce ..."

So true. I have so many series that I am part way through - I always think I will finish them and then get distracted with a new one 😊😆

New Year’s Day and we have no plans. So I’m by the pool and have started reading 😊🎉

Prologue
What a start! Just when we think we have been given all the pieces of what happened six years ago. (view spoiler)[Eshonai is such an interesting character. Looking forward to learning more about them this book (hide spoiler)]

Moving into chapter 2. Dalinar is the only one to mourn Sadeas! It’s funny and really sad at the same time. (view spoiler)[ Will Adolin admit to him what happened? I hope not. With the ever storm and voidbringers coming that seems like an unnecessary distraction for Dalinar. (hide spoiler)]

I’m intrigued by chapter 3. This is the first time we have gone back so far. And who is/was the archer?

2024 done
read 113
12 for this challenge.

Started the year with 347 on tbr. It went up by about 20, so I just went through books added in 2018 and 2019 and got cutthroat. If they had ratings of under 4.00, no colour cover, not part of a series, and not easily available from my library they got deleted.

So I have ended 2024 with 325 on the tbr.
🎉🎈