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Reading a 2004 paperback I picked up at the library book sale last April.

This was a lot of fun. Good twists, good reveals, and an interesting cast. There are a few things I would like to have spelled out for me, but I expect most of them are things I could theoretically understand on a reread. And I want to try some of those cocktails. Especially if I can get ahold of some Lunacy gin. ("They don't export it!")

Happy to continue my tradition of getting the new Meteorverse book for Christmas. I'm reading the 2022 Tor trade paperback.

In the end note Sanderson talks about The Princess Bride and Good Omens as tone goals for this, and mostly that says to me that he hasn't read Stardust. I do tend to like adventure stories that subvert some of the genre's problematic tropes and occasionally pause to point that out. Having Hoid serve both as the limited-omniscient narrator and a non-viewpoint character in the narrative was distracting sometimes, especially towards the end when Hoid was becoming more integral to the plot. Hopefully when we get more books in Hoid's voice he'll be the main character. This was a nice palate cleanser after finishing Mistborn era 2.

Read epub version from Kickstarter backer email.

No annotations because I was locked out of my account at the time. I read my original hardcover.

No annotations because I was locked out of my account at the time. I read my original hardcover.

No annotations because I was locked out of my account at the time. I read my original hardcover.

No annotations for this reread because I was locked out of my account at the time. I read the original hardback. I did go back and look in my Kindle copy to see if I had done any annotations, but all the highlights in there were proper nouns and idioms that I wanted to remember because I was about to run a Mistborn Era 2 TTRPG.

I don't have annotations for this one because I read it after my phone died but before I used my 2FA backup code to get back into this account. This will be a theme for the whole rest of my Mistborn reread, including my first read of The Lost Metal. I forgot this was in Arcanum Unbounded, so I spent a bunch of time trying to find it as a standalone, and wound up buying a totally unnecessary additional epub, but then the one I actually read was a cute little hardback edition from the Lawrence Public Library.

Reading the Tor trade paperback (978-0-7653-775-9) from the Lawrence Public Library.

Read in Aldiko, purchased from eBooks.com

Did I decide to do a full Mistborn reread on the day The Lost Metal was released? Yes. Was that a good plan? You ask too many questions.

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