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Practicing What You Preach

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

March 2, 2021 by sabian30 3 Comments

Okay, I said I was only doing writing non-fiction for Cannonball 13, but this epic fantasy is related to learning how to write. I took his 13-hour BYU writing class (on YouTube) and found it very informative. I decided I probably should read one of his books. Turns out Elantris is his first published work, and a good example of his classroom lessons. Elantris is an epic fantasy in every definition of the word. At over 600 pages, it follows the lives of three main […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Blighted Magic, brandon sanderson, epic fantasy, strong women

sabian30's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Blighted Magic, brandon sanderson, epic fantasy, strong women ·
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Velvet…if you please (don’t murder me).

August 26, 2018 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

You know how there are just too many strong female secret agents to choose from, in the same vein as James Bond or Jack Reacher or Jason Bourne, or raspy Liam Neeson, or raspy Jason Staham or whoever Tom Cruise is in the Mission Impossible movies? Except, like, not. What I’m saying is, women are hurting for representation in this genre, and the Velvet series is here to fill that gap and make you very very happy. And make a lot of dudes really really […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Suspense Tagged With: ed brubaker, Graphic Novel, spies, strong women, Velvet

cheerbrarian's CBR10 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Suspense · Tags: ed brubaker, Graphic Novel, spies, strong women, Velvet ·
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    on “Maybe I just thought I was a nonviolent person because in my old life, nobody had ever backed me into a corner with a knife to my throat.”
    Maybe they’ll share it when they do a special edition box set after the third (?) book comes out.
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    on The Daevabad Trilogy: “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True love. Miracles.”
    I’m about to read them for the third time (book club choice and of course I won’t stop after just...
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    on “Maybe I just thought I was a nonviolent person because in my old life, nobody had ever backed me into a corner with a knife to my throat.”
    Yeah, they talked about it in the Live Chat they did in connection with the release (It's available on YouTube)....
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