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Friday, March 14, 2014

Five Things on a Friday: Words of Radiance Edition

Words of Radiance is Brandon Sanderson’s newest novel, the second book in his epic fantasy series, The Stormlight Archives.  I put it on hold at the Milford Library several weeks ago but then broke down and bought it for the Kindle app the day it came out.  I finally finished reading every one of the thousand-plus pages in a long, rather frantic reading session Wednesday night, so that I then had to sit down and read the ending again on Thursday morning, and yup… I’ve been trying to figure out what the Hell I just read ever since.

Cover art for Words of Radiance.
I’m going to try to keep my thoughts on the book spoiler-free, but only for Words of Radiance.  This edition of Five Things on a Friday assumes you’ve read at least most of the way through The Way of Kings.  

If you haven’t, go do that now.  Then come back and read this.

Friday, March 7, 2014

Five Things on a Friday: Better Late than Never

1. The Red Skull never died.
You only think I'm dead.
I was watching Captain America: The First Avenger last night with my girls, and I noticed something.  The Red Skull doesn’t die at the end.  What happens instead is that he accidentally activates the Cosmic Cube, and it shoots him off into space—presumably to the throne of Thanos!  
I hadn’t noticed before, but I was paying attention this time because my daughter Hannah said that…
*spoiler alert*