Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that curse generational love and trauma – the ways we try to love our children, the things we sacrifice for our family even when it’s not enough or isn’t something they understand or isn’t what they actually need. How we can end up hurting them too, without trying or meaning to, just in…
“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”
Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this makes it clear why. It’s an imaginative, fascinating world. The thing that separated the characters was delectable. I’m reminded of the Japanese movie “Your Name”, the concept is still rare enough to feel surprising and fresh.
This idea has been rattling around my brain for a while, but I’ve struggled to put it into words (though I did my best for the alt-text below). Is it a poem? An idea? A model of the world? All three? I present, perhaps, a visual poem:
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As The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica said recently (on a livestream, it should be noted), “The gap between ‘I’m a comedian,’ ‘I’m a content creator,’ ‘I’m a musician’ — we used to think of those as three different jobs. They’re not three different jobs anymore. It’s basically just one job, which is getting attention. That’s the main job.” The only taboo left is copyright infringement - Garbage…
I listened to the audiobooks for the first two books, highly recommend! I enjoyed them both! I tried to write a short story once with an element of “what if instead of mineral-based technology, it was lifeform based – everything was grown rather than built” in the world building. My plot premise wasn’t fully fleshed out and I’ve never finished it. But it was nice to see someone else inspired by a…
But if Mandy was a fairy, why was Mother dead? “You’re not a fairy.” “Why not?” “If you were, you would have saved her.” “Oh, sweetie, I would have if I could. If she’d left the [unicorn] hair in my curing soup, she’d be well today.” “You knew? Why did you let her?” “I didn’t know till she was too sick. We can’t stop dying.” Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Chapter 4
Self-driving cars where instead of getting a driver’s license and calling AAA to help with a flat tire, you’re instead calling AAA to drive your car because you can’t when the AI breaks
harrowing interesting how she stayed in present tense and present-mind the whole time. It kept the book fresh, in a way, because her mother’s actions don’t change, but Jeannette’s emotions and experiences do over that time. If she’d had an omniscient reflectiveness from the beginning, it would take away from the latter chapters of the book and flatten it out, imo. Instead she leaves just enough…