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To all who read The Stormlight Archive

I’m writing an essay for class on The Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson) and how this series specifically can bring support to readers with mental health issues. I made a survey that I would really appreciate if you could fill in, even if you yourself don’t have a mental illness. It is only 4 questions and can be found here.

Giving this a reblog would be very much appreciated as well. Thank you so much!

(If you don’t feel like filling in a form but would just want to talk freely on this topic, feel free to message me!)

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Today someone told me: you should leave your books at home and go talk to people.

I should do what now?

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I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

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A while back Penguin books had a draw your own cover thing going on and since I’m finally reading this I did the thing

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my friend: hey do you have any book recomme-

me: :)

my friend: oh no

me: :)

my friend: don’t do it

me: have you heard of our lord and savior brandon sanderson and his beautiful magnum opus, a spectacular contribution to modern fantasy, the cosmere universe? it is a complex and interlocking universe where all of his adult fantasy series take place. here are the recommended starting points-

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Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones by Brandon Sanderson

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PSA TO WEAR A MASK IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA

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can you reccomend me teen- young adult romance or paranormal or fantasy books;

Teen/YA isn’t really my ‘thing’, but I’m gonna aim for some books which would suit the ‘readable and relatable’ style that characterises ‘Young Adult’.

Derek Landy - Skulduggery Pleasant series.

Genre: (contemporary) fantasy, ‘YA’.

If I had to sum up Skulduggery Pleasant in one word, that word would be ‘hilarious’. The basic premise of Skulduggery is this: teenager finds herself thrown into a world of magic and mayhem when she partners up with a mysterious magical detective, who also happens to be a skeleton (for reasons). Hilarity ensues, featuring a plethora of crazy characters getting themselves into even crazier situations, which they then deal with in the most sarcastic way possible. TL;DR If you haven’t read Skulduggery Pleasant, then what the hell have you been doing with your life so far?!

Brandon Sanderson - The Stormlight Archive series.

Genre: fantasy.

Brandon Sanderson is one of my favourite current fantasy authors, and that’s mostly because he’s really, really good at worldbuilding (particularly when it comes to well-defined magical systems). His tone is humorous without being vapid, and the characters are well established and explored. There are romantic subplots, but the backbone of the series is fantasy.Most of his novels are actually set inside a larger universe, ‘Cosmere’, so if you enjoy Stormlight then consider reading some of his other stuff - the Mistborn series is another good starting point. Sanderson also has an explicitly ‘Young Adult’ series in The Reckoners Trilogy, but it’s not his strongest work. The first novel in The Stormlight Archive is The Way of Kings: Part One.

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles.

Genre: romance, historical fantasy (I guess?).

You wanted romance - have some romance! Of the very gay and quite emotional kind, of course. Inspired by the Iliad (sort of), TSOA retells the story Troy as a romance involving Achilles and Patroclus. You know, those two Greek dudes who were so obviously gay, but people have been pretending for centuries weren’t gay? Yeah, them.Miller plays it pretty loose with her source material, but if you take the book as its own entity then it’s well worth the read.

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials trilogy.

Genre: fantasy.

Remember earlier when I asked what the hell you’d been doing if you hadn’t been reading Skulduggery Pleasant? The only acceptable answer would have been, ‘reading His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and getting overly attached to Lee and Hester’.The premise: Lyra, a young girl, lives in a parallel universe where every person has a daemon - an extension of their soul which functions as a sentient companion. When Lyra’s best friend Roger is kidnapped, she and her daemon Pantalaimon decide they have to go to the North Pole and rescue him, because they are literally fucking insane and do whatever the fuck they like. Little do they know, this totally rational decision will land them in the middle of a divine struggle for Creation itself.His Dark Materials is basically a Genesis retelling disguised as an awesome fantasy series with witches, soul-eating ghosts, inter-dimensional travel and armoured fucking bears, and if that doesn’t sound up your street then I’m willing to question the integrity of your street. What is up your street? If it’s not this, I’m not sure I want to know.The first book is The Northern Lights (or ‘The Golden Compass’, if you live in the same country that JK Rowling couldn’t rely upon to know what a philosopher is). Oh, also, slight warning - you might cry during The Subtle Knife. I do.

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pre-Oathbringer

post-Oathbringer

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THE FULL ALBUM OF THE LIGHTNING THIEF IS ON SPOTIFY

THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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Person: Oh, hey man!

Kandra: new bones, who dis

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I've been in a reading slump lately and just sorta rotating through my audiobooks to find something i like and I started Skyward and I was suddenly 2hours in and caught myself wondering how come this book is so much better than everything else that I've started recently and then I was like "oh. It's Sanderson. Derp. "

the top-rated review for Skyward on Goodreads is not the most original comment I’ve ever seen, but it is a whole goddamn mood

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On one hand, I always expected Jason and Percy to be rivals and fight

but then again, in this first POV Jason literally jumps off a cliff to save a girl he just met without knowing he can fly

he was like oh yes this seems like the next logical step

and I’m like

of fucking course this dumb-ass sweetheart with a hero complex was gonna be Percy’s bro in .5 seconds

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New Theory

Adolin Kholin is a bee

Evidence?

- black and yellow hair

- nice unless antagonized

- don’t fuck with his family or he will kill you

- enjoys colorful things (like bright clothes)

- very important

- needs to be protected at all costs

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I was audiobooking so I probably missed the blue hair bit. Oh my god, it doesn't get any more obvious fsdjgfgds

Okay we get it! Sarai and co are going to find Karou and she’ll get a new body. Jesus.

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I noped so badly at the clusterfuck that was the 2nd& 3rd DoSaB books that I didn't even think about that lmao

Okay we get it! Sarai and co are going to find Karou and she’ll get a new body. Jesus.

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