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Angela wrote: "Chris wrote: "Angela wrote: "Thanks Liam.@ Ahdam, I was actually surprised how well the boys took to the idea. (though it could partly be the cook in our house never has to clean up dishes after)..."
My door is always open for friends and dinner guests!
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Margret wrote: "I like Pinterest when I start a new series to look up fan art, it gets me more into it and helps visualize characters"I picked up drawing as a hobby earlier in the year and Pinterest has given me a bunch of tools and lessons to use with my pencil work. It's been very useful for a dude that isn't going to school for art!
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Hopefully we will be able to see some of your art coming up in the future!
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Well for those of us not reading the series. ;-) The thread has been really active.
It must be the most popular buddy read of the year.
Angela wrote: "Oathbringer, bringing silence to Goodreads since 14th November 2017. Well for those of us not reading the series. The thread has been really active."
Guilty! :D
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Well for those of us not reading the series. ;-) The thread has been really active.
It must be the most..."
Haha I noticed that. I didn't get the book yet, but I'm sure I will be the same way when I start.
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Well for those of us not reading the series. ;-) The thread has been really active.
It must be the most..."
For me having three of my favorite series release books Deadhouse Landing and Blood and Tempest all at once has eaten up all my bandwidth for sure.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates + I know this is too late for @Canada but I hope y'all have a great day too.
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At least this year I didn't get sick with kid germs, I don't think... last year I was under the weather for like 3 weeks... but some of the kids weren't fully mobile yet, last year, so there was more holding...
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2) No kids... it's my friends that keep having kids... my college roommate has 2 kids now (5 & 2 I think)... his sister has 4 now (19, 17, 3 & 1 I think)... so I don't have immunity... I show up for the holidays and get them all at once...
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Luckily I have my husband to transport me “Weekend at Bernie’s” style on long trips. I always seem to be coming off nights when it’s Christmas, so yeah wake up at 3 pm work 12 hr shift, then leave at noonish the next day.
He said it’s literally like transporting a corpse, that I flop around and have this grey pallor LOL
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Then we left and I was dropped off at friend's house to sleep and replaced with friend's wife, who skipped the first meal to sleep off HER hospital shift... she's a nurse of some variety (I can never remember what degree she finished since she changed focus so many times)... anyway, they went to her parents for meal 2, and I got to quit pretending to be awake...
On Christmas, I'm fully awake for the festivities, because I generally have Christmas Eve off vs Thanksgiving Day... but on Christmas I have to drive back after eating and work an 8hr shift Christmas night... usually...
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Not sure where to say this, but my copy of oathbringer came in today (coincidently a day after I finished way of kings) and I think I have the most inconsistent bookshelf ever because some of the series books, I got are a mixture of paperback and hardback which is a bit annoying since I refuse to wait a year for a paperback and with SA I got the TOR editions due to A) didn't want to buy 5 books and B) I love the covers of the edition I love the uk ones but I also love the others ones. So that's the good the bad is WOR is smaller than the other 2 books.....the bastards :( :( :( Back to the topic I was so excited to open it that I felt my heart racing opening the package until I saw it and I felt my life flashing before me I then decided to check how many pages is in the book and I ran into some fabulous artwork I think I lost it hahahaha if that wasn't weird enough for you I have it on my shelf but my bed is opposite my bookshelf so when I look up my eyes drift towards it soooo this isn't weird at all maybe the radical bookworm is seeping in but yeah I was really excited about this anyway here's a pic if it works.
Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, DO NOT BUY the trade paperback of Words of Radiance if you're looking for shelves aesthetic. I bought it because Sanderson changed a tiny event in Words of Radiance HC and my OCD can't accept it, especially because it was the first HC I purchased on my own. But then, when I bought the trade paperback of WoR, not only the size didn't match the trade paperback of WoK, it also features different typography.If you haven't realized it, the typography in WoK and WoR are different from Oathbringer (look at the spine), seems like starting form now this is the typography they decided to use.
Rant, over too. Anyway, I understand how you felt, I was happy as fuck when I received Oathbringer! :D
My OCD side makes my eyes glitch every time I see my books together, because of the spine. I can understand the change, as with Oathbringer they went with a cleaner look, but it is distracting at the shelf.
I will forgive them only because the art inside the books are spectacular and I have to support Tor for doing that in normal books, not only at special editions.
Petrik wrote: "Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, DO NOT BUY the trade paperback of Words of R..."Yeah I got mine of book depository because amazon doesn't have it here but I don't mind if one is smaller I don't fully understand what you mean by sanderson changing an event was it something in the story he changed or is it something different.
Ahdam wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, DO NOT BUY the trade paperbac..."I can't tell you without spoiling anything. Let's just say that event A: Winnie the Pooh kicked Piglet and steal his honey. He changed it into event B: Winnie the Pooh killed piglet and steal his honey.
get what I mean? the result is the same, but the method is different.
Ahdam wrote: "Yeah I got mine of book depository because amazon doesn't have it here but I don't mind if one is smaller I don't fully understand what you mean by sanderson changing an event was it something in the story he changed or is it something different. "After Words of Radiance was published he did a change on how a scene occurred. It is a big spoiler, so I wouldn't check that until you finished reading the book. The outcome of the scene didn't really change it was mostly how the situation was handled.
Big spoiler.
Link above for you to check after you finished the book. You can find both scenes online at Stormlight forums and at reddit, so you don't really need to buy a new book to read that. :)
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Petrik wrote: "Ahdam wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, DO NOT BUY the ..."Hahahaha 10/10 Analogy Petrik.
Well looks like I'm gonna have to find out for myself once I read it eventally
Liam wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Ahdam wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, ..."hahahaha thank you, Liam! xD
Margret wrote: "I’m ocd about my shelves too. Sometimes I’ll let it slide if I find them at the thrift store. But I hate it when they completely change the cover theme and size etc"I completely agree!
Miche wrote: "My OCD side makes my eyes glitch every time I see my books together, because of the spine. I can understand the change, as with Oathbringer they went with a cleaner look, but it is distracting at..."
Same as you, I understand the change. In fact, I think the new typography is better. However, it's still painful for them to change it now! :/
Petrik wrote: "Miche wrote: "My OCD side makes my eyes glitch every time I see my books together, because of the spine. I can understand the change, as with Oathbringer they went with a cleaner look, but it is ..."
It is! I just hope they keep the Oathbringer style and stop changing it. If we get another one later on, my eyes will go ballistic. lol
Petrik wrote: "Ahdam wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, DO NOT BUY the ..."Great example! Thanks for the demonstrating the difference without destroying the story. I haven't read it.
But Pooh killed Piglet ... I'm devastated.
Ann wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Ahdam wrote: "Petrik wrote: "Oh that's even worse than mine Ahdam! The WoR you have is the mass market paperback, not the newly released trade paperback. I can tell you this though, ..."Hahahah please don't be devastated, it was just a dumb example xD
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Veronica wrote: "#JusticeForPiglet"#SavePigletFromTyranny
Wait, is Margret wishing Rabbit and Owl dead? Harsh.
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Iain wrote: "My owl joke/pun goes completely ignored :D"AHHHH! I get it!!!
Sorry. Took me a while. Assumed you just weren't up on Winnie the Pooh cast.
I get it too. Just sat laughing at loud at work. Glad I'm working alone today or my collegues will have funny looks.
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Hehe. I just don't remember the bit where there was a brutal murder. Just taking you guys' word for it... :p
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Iain wrote: "My owl joke/pun goes completely ignored :D"I missed it until you called us on it.
Especially this time of year. You could have roasted pig, bear, rabbit, stuffed owl, donkey fondue (kinda like horse meat), and a tigger cloak to keep you warm!
Iain wrote: ""Hahaha if I had been drinking anything at the time that would have been a total spit take moment.
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@Angela, that's awesome!"
Thanks Miche,
I post to Pinterest only when I'm looking for a particular idea on a project. I hardly ever go on there. My BFF though loves Pinterest and uses it all the time. She is very crafty and arty though.