It's 70 degrees outside now and tomorrow it'll be snowing. NE is weird. I've started memorizing again, for the first time since I was a kid. I'm relearning the old favorites, starting with Frost. I'm 1500+ pages into the Stormlight Archive. Any fans of Brandon Sanderson lurk around these parts?
Sanderson has a whole world and three (?) separate rounds of massive tomes related to the world he created. So what, half a book? (kidding. sort of) The nice thing is that he writes a lot, but he does not write as if he is paid by the word. No 20 pages describing getting up out of bed in the morning, for example. I grabbed the Mistborn books and plan to start them in a week or so.I'm 1500+ pages into the Stormlight Archive.
I read Elantris and the Mistborn series in high school. I'm not sure what age you are, but I remember Mistborn to be fairly Young Adult. I'd reread it now though, for sure. I love the idea of the Cosmere and the lore surrounding it, good sci-fi. His magic systems are unparalleled.
thanks for mentioning again because i didn't realize he had released the third one
re. memorizing. I'm a big fan. Whether it's a poem by Frost or a song lyric by Kurt Cobain. I don't know how much stuff you've memorized, but how many times a month would you say it comes in handy - that you have a few memorized lines on hand that perfectly fit a situation?
I like to annoy my wife with it :) For example, a snowstorm a little while back prompted a walk through our local greenway. We passed under a tree, covered in snow, and I said the line, "I like to think some boy's been swinging them..." She didn't know to get away, despite the hint, and we both got dowsed in snow as I pulled a branch.