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[@merphynapier42]

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[@SarcasmoRex]

Brandon Sanderson would be writing a new book DURING the gladiator fight. That dude writes like he knows the exact date of his death.

[@meganhuffmanwrites]

So true. Mannn, the man is non-stop! How does he write like he's running out of time? Write day and night like he's running out of time! Every day he fights like he's running out of time, is he running out of time? Awwww, How does he write like tomorrow won't arrive? How does he write like he needs it to survive? How does he write every second he's alive?! 😁

[@Kolter657]

@@meganhuffmanwrites kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIqcfImqqr2Neac

[@blending_in]

That's such an accurate way to describe it 😭

[@JClover2]

Hilarious because it's true 😆

[@SerenitySong6]

Like he's running out of time?

[@ridhwankamarulzaman8789]

Past Merphy: "I'm not a fan of absurdism". Current Merphy: "I need to write these crossover fan fictions" 😂

[@MugenHeadNinja]

What reading One Piece does to a person.

[@adoniscreed4031]

The power of One Piece and Discworld 😂 and I havent even read Discworld

[@ImchautzuCHAUTZU]

⁠@@adoniscreed4031that sounds like something someone would say about one piece😂 Time to go read discword !

[@dylangrenier218]

The power of the books that hold up her laptop

[@user-wm1yc2gk2w]

Please someone write that Marvin crossover tho

[@livineshkumar335]

Brandon has a separate team in his company, whose sole work is to check and make sure he keeps the continuity and makes sure he doesn't change any cannon events in the Cosmere.

[@KoreaWithKids]

That's mostly Karen's job. She has spreadsheets. And spreadsheets for the spreadsheets.

[@Pablo360able]

All the great worldbuilders have that. Matt Mercer has Dani Carr.

[@StannisHarlock]

Imagine if Rand Al'Thor just popped into the Sword of Truth universe and did nothing but follow Richard around and at every event just tell Richard, "I did it better".

[@JClover2]

😂

[@mechanarwhal7830]

LOVE this

[@bookishlybookish]

Bahaha this one wins

[@snorpenbass4196]

And he keeps going until Goodkind starts crying about how bad his prose is.

[@nroke1684]

I mean, that's basically what lews therin does in the wheel of time to rand.

[@brendhacaldas4396]

Merphy cracking up is the sweetest thing 😂❤

[@prajwaleliya9539]

And contagious!

[@notrixamoris3318]

🤣

[@TheCronedoggy]

I love that the joke was a literal knee slapper for her.

[@billyalarie929]

It will literally turn someone’s bad day around

[@nathancarter8239]

Yeah, I understand almost not wanting a series to end, because if the author forces an ending (especially if it's bad) you can really see the undulating quality of the series overall.

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

*claps furiously*

[@angrychickengod3831]

If you were to fight GRRM in the circle, he wouldn't cheat. He would just get his incredibly skilled sellsword to fight on his behalf.

[@taylor_green_9]

And then the incredibly skilled sellsword would not exactly cheat but definitely fight dirty

[@Belemrys]

That is basically what Hoid does....shows up in random books and gives out of context stories that we only get it!

[@happychaosofthenorth]

13:50 I did that. I grabbed a book based on title alone while knowing literally nothing else. Unfortunately, the book was called November 9 by Colleen Hoover. I picked it because that's my birthday. That book was one of the worst books I ever read. As someone who does not gravitate to the romance genre, and usually avoids it, I had no idea that Colleen was a famous, and famously bad author.

[@IndiaTides]

Minor spoiler for Yumi and the midnight painter - I read undulating in the book and smiled. I think Sanderson specially used to annoy Merphy. I loved it.

[@tineye5100]

Any time I see that word in an ebook i smile and highlight it.

[@hannahbrennan2131]

Every time I read that word, I read it in Sean Astin's voice.

[@groofay]

When I read that take, I thought Sanderson's ear in particular would be sore, he uses "undulate" like twice in every one of his books.

[@wherespookie1]

Tress also used undulate like 4-5 times lol

[@sineadjenks5325]

I just finished it today... Omg so many 'undulating's' 😂

[@circleofleaves2676]

We're gonna need 2 things: 1. a part 2 of bad takes 2. a whole video on your favourite one - examples of characters just popping into other worlds

[@lelnel6242]

You mean part 3. I'm pretty sure there a video like this already or something similar to it

[@christhewritingjester3164]

That could be a whole series of shorts.

[@ultimasurge]

atleast one episode of her putting on her writers cap of these cross overs would be fantastic. I wonder if anyone could recognize her favorite authors influences in HER writing also.

[@alecity4877]

4:13 this is literally what takes up half of my reading time, stopping reading and thinking how the characters would react and interact with others, glad to see I am not the only one.

[@berrymand71]

I like unfinished series as long as each book feels finished. I don't like waiting for a series to be written if the individual books don't end or have cliffhangers.

[@dietsoba]

This was really fun!! Tbh my bad take(?) is to be your own audiobook and read everything out loud all the time. It seriously helps you focus on the content line by line but also annoys everyone in the near vicinity

[@orbitingpluto3213]

This is how I finally fished reading Lord of the Rings. Some books are just better spoken.

[@sarahloomis2034]

This is me lol

[@dietsoba]

@@orbitingpluto3213 you’re absolutely right

[@kosmosvanhartland747]

Honestly, i have found that reading a line out loud that i previously did not understand, does help sometimes, But doing it for the entire book, causes my brain to zone out too, to such a point where i have to ask someone to explain what i just read. So, it has its advantages and disadvantages... 👍

[@tyriquesmith8850]

I am endlessly pleased that Merphy has joined my fight. Her laugh is so contagious. I love this community. ❤

[@Colaman112]

9:02 You know, we did have choose your own adventure books in the 90s. Loads of "videogames" exist with those premises as well.

[@avsambart]

Lestat coming back from going into the Twilight world: you'll never guess what we're doing over there. And we sparkle.

[@kv4648]

Some of these seem quite mild. Here's mine: I like info dumps. I don't think I've seen much support for it so its probably a bad take. Viewing large chunks of the world from a comprehensive perspective allows me to immerse myself into it much more deeply. In my opinion it makes up for the fact that we aren't following the main character from birth and don't learn about the world like they do

[@orbitingpluto3213]

I love info dumps, too. It's great. Give me all of the world building. All of it.

[@damsaucy]

same. i don't really sit down and read for long periods of time, but more so short bursts every day or every few days, so when info is laid out over the course of the whole book, i tend to forget things, but when its in the form of an infodump, i remember it better because that one scene itself is memorable

[@curranfrank2854]

Yea honestly I often love info dumps, but I think the biggest problem isn't doing them at all but how much you rely on them. A few times in a book or a series, especially in the beginning, isn't that bad, but if you continue to use them as the book goes on, it becomes more questionable.

[@josephtiseo3303]

I could see the crossover books being done like the Canterbury Tales, where the main characters are all on a journey somewhere and to pass time they talk about things that happened to them, and maybe react to thing that happen on the trip as though they are still in their world. Perhaps in the end they all end up at a convention and turn out to have been super fans. 'I remember when I was young the local witch enticed me to go to school to learn magic. But when I was there I released a horrible monster that kept following me so I ran all over the world to try to find a way to defeat it' --Ged 'So did you defeat the minion of the dark one?' --Rand 'Oh, turns out I was running from my shadow' --Ged

[@AgressiveMonkee]

"Broken spines are cool" -Merphy Napier, 2023

[@CantankerousDave]

Batman villain Bane approves.

[@samharris266]

For the the crossovers I just had a thought of Worf, Star Trek, jumping into Pride and Prejudice and challenging George Wickham to an honour duel to the death.

[@veronicaholme803]

I never noticed how frequently the word “undulating” comes up before I heard about Merphy’s beef with it lol. Now I can’t read a book without seeing it.

[@zofiabochenska1240]

yep. That's all of of us

[@blending_in]

I don't even know what it means man all I know is that she has beef with it and that's all I need to know anyway 💀

[@NicolasKiroy-ex9yz]

Author's take on that first question about Tolkien taking inspiration from outside: YES! One of my favorite things to do is take a real life experience and write it into the intensified circumstances of whatever I'm working on at the moment. It's especially fun when you can take said experience, plug it into say a Fantasy setting, then later down the road use that same inspired event in a different work, perhaps even different genre! Many standout childhood memories haunt several of my books, but the way they are packaged is completely different from one to the next. When writers talk about NEEDING to get a scene out, for me that feeling almost always pairs with an event from my life twisted into whichever work it will go into.

[@LEOrgill]

I think this video needs a sequel. I had so much fun watching it.

[@rosss2173]

I think we need a depress-off between Marvin and Kaladin. Not sure who would win that fight, but everyone would be sad.

[@samfisher6606]

The spreadsheet thing sort of sounds like something a writer can do themselves in terms of putting every character in a list with their age, birthday, place of birth, major life events, family members, etc. I know Oda goes onto the One Piece wiki because he often forgets things like move names but fans keep track of most of that stuff. I know TV shows have stuff like series bibles which I've always assumed is filled with references to character histories and the like.

[@Lynn-CA]

Alas, not everyone acknowledges the wonder of the spreadsheet!

[@LimegreenSnowstorm]

As she was reading that I was just thinking every writer needs an autistic fan who’s obsessed with their work to keep track of that stuff. I cut out the middle man by being autistic XD _I very much know the joy of the spreadsheet_

[@taylorgayhart9497]

I wish more hardcovers were like that too, but specifically I like that it is a glossed paper so you can CLEAN IT!! I just read Happy Place and it’s white and yellow, it got SO STAINED just from touching it that I feel bad selling it.

[@tgibridays]

I 100% agree with your "bad take". I actually am a bit nervous about Stormlight ending and kind of ruining my feelings towards the first three books. Hopefully it's an unfounded fear... But it's there.

[@jasminezed7839]

I take it you didn't like ROW?

[@tgibridays]

@@jasminezed7839 I liked it, but my ranking goes, WoR, TWoK, O, then ROW. It's the only one I've only read once, so I might change my mind when I get back to it next year when I do my reread in preparation for book 5.

[@jasminezed7839]

@@tgibridays Reasonable. Right now I think my ranking would be the same as yours, but with OB and ROW switched. I honestly have no idea what book five is going to do at this point, but I'm excited for it to come out!

[@xavierkane2532]

As a horror author, if I had a chance to get trad published through gladiatorial combat I would definitely cheat! My favorite quote about combat is: if you're not cheating, you're not trying!

[@timhurlburt4506]

Characters showing up in crossovers and spouting off about adventures they had in another unrelated book is basically what happens in every Michael Moorcock novel. It's actually a lot of fun.

[@grainne5500]

"Books aren't edible enough". Intense flashbacks to when I was 12 and my best friend tore out the last page of a book I was reading and ate it

[@metallsnubben]

20:18 as someone who's horrified of people skipping arcs in One Piece, this is a whole other level of insanity. Absolutely perfect for this video but jesus, that knocked the wind out of me

[@emmaelizabeth3373]

OMG my comment made it into a Merphy video! My life is complete 😂 I have actually heard of consistency editors for larger authors, which makes total sense if the author can afford it and I don’t think it’s a “bad” idea at all. (I would also totally be on board with the fan labor of love idea!) I just counted this as a “bad take” because age-related errors tend to bother me WAY MORE than any other type of plot hole, even though they usually don’t affect the story much…

[@Lynn-CA]

I will do my best to try and clone myself and then start a business offering my services to authors. It could be a real money maker!

[@emmaelizabeth3373]

@@Lynn-CA We data-obsessed folks would certainly appreciate your services Lynn!

[@thefriesofLockeLamora]

The one about Tolkien is true. And Jemisin went to visit volcanoes to do the world building for Broken Earth.

[@bdk336]

I want to read Murphy's fanfictions of this beautiful crossover concept.

[@appolionos]

I just wanted to say : THANK YOU Discovered your channel recently and you totally rekindle my love for reading ! You made me bought 15 books last month (and I already read half of them). So thank you ! Can't wait to read more !

[@ryancook8532]

Just wanted to say that I found your channel this week based on the algorithm recommending your review on A Silent Voice, and got hooked when watching your Avatar vids! I also haven't read a book in over 4 years so I'm inspired to start the Mistborn series soon...I really don't know how I got here but I'm glad I did!

[@HappyTheNeko]

Agreed about annotations. My most prized book is a copy of The Screwtape Letters that my grandpa annotated. It’s literally falling apart at this point so I never use it to read from though.

[@deriving_drunk]

But Merphy, you assume *I’m* not going to cheat in the circle either. I am not above showing up to my death battle with Oda accompanied by my girlfriend wearing a bikini to turn his brain off.

[@Shadow-fb2ec]

😂

[@TrabensTomes]

The book hoard as artistic expression really speaks to me as I’m sure it does to others. My partner sometimes talks about being a book collector more than a book reader, but we are definitely getting back into reading this year.

[@CantankerousDave]

Hearing someone describe a Choose Your Own Adventure book like some strange, mythical tome makes me feel sooooo old.

[@bugsby4663]

I love your excited passion about writing in books. I love buying a book from past centuries and see someone who is long dead has scribbled in there. It makes me feel connected across time. Mind you, handwriting in the past was so much nicer.

[@rochoa7408]

Oooh I like the crossover idea, I wanna put Marvin and Kaladin together and see who can out-depress the other 😂

[@georgezp7787]

Don't use a book as a mouse pad if it has a glossy cover. The arrow will never go where you want it to go.

[@Joshuadawg03]

Merphy is deadass the best booktuber to ever touch this earth. She made me pick up reading after years of not reading

[@zionthedon7745]

"Step into the circle with Robert Oberst" Daniel: "Heh??

[@cfftfffffgggfftotcjy]

Having the notes for your kids to read is so heart warming. I bonded so much with my step dad over reading so that just made me think of him love the vid!

[@robertunijat8299]

Now I really want to see the conversation between Gimli and Carrot!

[@shelfofmanygenres]

Regarding reading the end of the book first if I'm getting stressed out by the book I'll peak at the end, the back of the next book in the series or a wiki spoiler page to prepare for it so I can mentally prepare for it and just be in the moment for the reading experience for the rest of the book, because good or bad, I've satisfied that anxiousness from not knowing.

[@kosmosvanhartland747]

Near same... I also Google the plot sometimes when i get anxious. And read the last page, And a page from somewhere in the middle too for good measure. 😉

[@blankdomain]

I put my hate reads upside down on my shelf just to spite them 😌

[@JoshDoingLinux]

Simple solution to the dust jacket problem. Get a book of similar size that is not pretty and display the dust jacket on that book

[@ibg_music7525]

4:27 Now I want an entire video of ideas on this.😂8:39 John Gwynne would get so many earflicks...

[@nathanadler8316]

Merphy, if you haven't read Jasper Fforde yet, I think you'd love his books. His main character is a Literary Detective, who travels into other stories (eg hiding in the attic of Jane Eyre's manor house, using the book to know when it's safe to move around without bumping into any main characters). His Nursery Crimes are even sillier (The Gingerbread Man as a deranged serial killer is hilarious).

[@PsilocybeJedi]

I wrote a book, well 2 actually, at the age of 14. Fast forward to now, I'm 31 and between working 2 jobs, doing jiujitsu, lifting, hiking and backpacking and reading it's so hard for me to find time to write, my dream is to not have to work any jobs so I can just write full time but that will never happen... in the meantime, I'm almost finished finally with the final draft of the novel i wrote 17 years ago! I feel so elated lol

[@jag519]

I legit love when I see undulating in book now because of you. Lots of the time I'm keeping count.

[@primarybufferpanel9939]

Honestly I also love the idea of characters in seriea crossing over to another and just telling their story. Fanfiction is ripe for this navelgazingy goodness 👨‍🍳😘

[@rriggs6547]

I can just imagine Egwene being forced into a series with a lot of wokeness in it. She would probably take a woman over her knee and spank her.

[@primarybufferpanel9939]

@@rriggs6547 Hahaha, the absolute shock on the other woman's face! It's be like when Mat bent Tylen?? over his knee.

[@RidleyJones]

Funny, I usually don't take any notes or anything on fiction books because it *breaks* the immersion for me. I have to be confronted by the fact that it's words on a page, an artifact, rather than a world I'm in.

[@dtcharo]

I love these kinds of videos from Merphy. They're always gold.

[@virahetman6867]

15:25 / oooh when I started reading Stormlight - I disappeared from reality for 5 days and I was reading it (note - English is not my first language and Stormlight 1 was among first books I read in eng.) I made tones of notes at first, and around 200 pages a day was my top, but I just had to keep reading it 😁 I can start several books at once, but depending on the mood I’ll want to read only one of them till the end, then move to the second one.. switching between several stories is not my thing 🤷‍♀️😁

[@McFlingleson]

23:16 reminds me of a thing I saw at school when I was a kid: We had this thing at my elementary school where periodically some older kids (high school or maybe college, I'm not sure) would come to our school and put on a performance for us that would typically have some kind of moral or message to it. One day they came and the performance they put on was just completely unhinged. The plot of it was that some people had a balloon, and they drew a pirate's face on the balloon, which somehow turned the balloon into a living, sentient being. The pirate balloon assessed the world he was new to and decided that his thing was that he wanted books, so the humans, glad he was interested in such things, brought him books and he started fucking eating them! The humans protested fervently against the pirate balloon eating books, but he could not be stopped, until he had eaten so many that he popped, alas, his folly led to his demise. The moral of the story was that you, too, should have a hunger for books, but not a literal hunger but rather a figurative hunger that is satiated by reading them and not by eating them. I swear I did not make any of this up.

[@JordanS-ww4eu]

I remember Ronald McDonald would do that for my elementary school

[@prajwaleliya9539]

Always excited for a new Merphy video 🙌🏼

[@taylorgayhart9497]

I actually just picked up my first Brandon Sanderson book blindly! I’ve always been overwhelmed by all of his series, but I liked the title, so I just bought it! I’m loving it so far, I’m a quarter of the way through and I’ve already recommended it to people!

[@nicoleneedschocolate]

Soooo which one did you pick up? 👀

[@badfaith4u]

Your videos always being a smile to my face. So engaging and fun.

[@velho6298]

I think Oda even googled Luffy's finishing moves from East Blue because he had forgotten and reused them in the new world

[@mocaccino123]

About the 9:03 comment, there actually is a physical book that uses that idea of exploring different sequences of chapters and multiple endings: Hopscotch, by Julio Cortázar, and it's amazing!

[@jaginaiaelectrizs6341]

11:53 - That's completely true. I think a lot of people really don't realize just how much "could have been trimmed down" is an almost entirely subjective opinion, in a majority of case. Loll

[@Beltion]

9:21 My congratulations, this has already been invented, it's called video games. I recommend starting with Disco Elysium and Bookwalker.

[@readlikeaman]

😂 I LOVE the one about marking up your books! I am a MONSTER about that especially for the books that I love. Gotta get all my thoughts/reactions in there otherwise what’s the point? 🤪

[@alannastephenson2800]

I 100% agree with the whole not ending series thing!!! I've read so many great series that didn't end well. I also love the feeling of not knowing and carrying that feeling with me forever

[@thomaskamkar5197]

Im actually completely with you on the take of enjoying unfinished series, though for me, it's also because I find speculating to be a ton of fun. Well crafted worlds can feel so amazingly alive, and a lot of the wonder that brings can fade for me when the curtains close. On a bit of a tangent, I think it's also why I love open-endings, and dislike it when stories take pains to wrap things up too neatly.

[@deathabillypete570]

I was going to put a lengthy comment but then the book fell out at the end and i spat out my coffee. That literally made my morning. 😂

[@tyriquesmith8850]

I'm so excited for these. Let's read some bad takes! 😊

[@71l2]

As a person who enjoys drawing... yes, I totally understand the glitter pen and blank pages -point. I totally would love it.

[@simonjohansson248]

Love to see someone from the other side of the world show such love for Fredrick Backman (I'm swedish like him!!) He was one of my great inspirations to start writing myself.

[@fourcatsandagarden]

I don't have a book for a mousepad but I do have an old seed magazine that is pretty thick that I use as a base, and then I have some cardboard on top of that ,and a mousepad on top of that - I use it for when I'm playing games and want to kick my feet up and lean back (aka away from the desk), so I have a stable pad on my lap

[@colibri224]

When I was young (like very young), I thought being a serious reader mean you SHOULD ALWAYS read a book in ONE sitting, no matter the length. And I always felt like a failure for not reaching this impossible goal.

[@emmaelizabeth3373]

Me too!! My mom even mentioned it in some parent conference write-up to my first grade teacher. She was like "bookmark functionality has yet to sink in." 😂

[@elfchild9]

​@@emmaelizabeth3373 "Bookmark functionality has yet to sink in" is my new favorite line. 😆 I think a lot of us were those kids.

[@nazimelmardi]

This video is gold. 😂 One of the best in the month so far. 👏👏

[@celestegosling6054]

So on the topic of sometimes choosing random books to read - when I was a teenager I lived in a small-ish town which had a "Teen" section (I think this was before "Young Adult" became a section) in the library. I don't remember how large this section was, maybe a hundred books or so, but I decided that I was going to read through the section in alphabetical order. I found some interesting books that way. I didn't end up getting through many, though, because I ended up moving to a different town.

[@EricMcLuen]

Loelve the crossover idea. So Elric, Anomander and Geralt walk into a bar. Kellenved and Glotka are sitting in a corner comparing canes.

[@TheMooseandsquirrel]

Hopscotch is a book I read that can be read linearly or, alternatively gives you other pages you can jump to to read and get more of the story before jumping to another page.

[@mystory2914]

The way you talk about immersing and imparting yourself through notes has changed the way i interact with reading, thank you.

[@MusicBlik]

4:41 Characters sharing out-of-context nonsense: "My girlfriend turned into the moon."

[@jony4real]

That's rough buddy.

[@pee74332]

These videos are so fun. I use a classic, contemporary, random system when reading. I agree with you regarding random selections. I'll choose something from the blurb. If it sounds interesting, it's coming home with me. For example, I loved "The Key" by Junichiro Tanizaki. Often those are my favorite reads because you go in blind.

[@itsnotnoel]

23:18 Books are basically a lasagna with paper and ink :D

[@jessthemess5087]

Thank you for making me laugh today. 😂 I needed that 😅 "What do you mean???? "Lol

[@tylerbaker3611]

So in reference to the take with where they skip other POV I have thought about this for the wheel of time before. I think it would be super interesting if there were different collections for different major POVs. Like the Tale of the Dragon follows only Rands pov, the the rise of the wolf king follows only Perrins, and so on.

[@zuzanaochmanova2652]

So, the reason why hardcovers have beautiful cover underneath the dust jacket is because while you are reading it, you read it WITHOUT the dust jacket to not destroy it. Therefore you will enjoy the cover like that, and then when you are done you put the dust jacket on and can display the other cover you are not used to. And if you have accidentally destroyed a little the hardback by reading it, the dust jacket will cover it. 😊 And reading hardback without the dustjacket on is the only right way! 😅 (Please don't fight me on this🙈😅)

[@nisc2001]

tell that to the libraries who tape them on, i didn't even know reading without one was an option til highschool when i finally got my own hardcover and it kept slipping through the dust jacket

[@zuzanaochmanova2652]

@@nisc2001 oh gosh 🙈 what a sin! But, did they at least put this seen through plastic/cover thingy on it? Our libraries in Slovakia put it on every book so it won't get ruined so soon, so in that case I do understand. But yea that is shame :(

[@nisc2001]

@@zuzanaochmanova2652 yeah, the dust jackets tended to have a plastic covering

[@FrancescaMulvey]

I don't know whether this has already been said, so apologies if this is so, but Dutch hardbacks and most German hardback novels don't have dust jackets and I love it!

[@Yesica1993]

I used to do that skipping to the end of a chapter/book thing. Then I did it with Sophie's Choice. It ruined me. I never did that again.

[@Jkpancakes]

Nah the take @4:49 imagine the crows from six of Crows, specifically Kaz, going to the gentleman bastard series and just having a heist-off and how Kaz would just pretend that he wasn't trying to out heist Locke and vice versa😭😭

[@B3AST46]

I also have that self imposed rule of skipping to the last page and reading the last sentence or paragraph. I don't remember when or exactly what book it started with or even why I do this. All I know is that now it is a MUST.

[@maem7462]

It’s rare for me to stop a book or a series in the middle and read something else. I’ve done it a few times with certain books. I’ve mostly kinda took a break from a book to read a different one when my school required me to read a different book or short story. I’ll read a different book(s) while waiting for the next book in a series to come out. Most the time it doesn’t work well for me to read multiple books at the same time or switch between them. My middle school had a rule of reading a different genre each time you read new book which I get to an extent to help ppl see what they want but that rule also extend to series. They said we had to read a different book in between the books in the series. I think that rule was mostly only 6th grade I did have one exception to the usual circumstances. I read the first book in the Splintered series bc I wanted to read something that I had while waiting for Mister Impossible which is a second book in a series. Once I finished Splintered since my friend had recommended Song of Achilles and I was planning to ask for that for my birthday but I needed something to read while waiting for my birthday. I wasn’t going to go a month or 2 without reading anything. I’m glad I read Song Of Achilles when I did bc I got done with it I think close to when Mister Impossible got released. I also wanted a stand alone book since Splintered ended not on a huge cliff hanger. Most stuff had been wrapped up but it was open ended enough to continue. I wasn’t sure if the 2nd book in that series would be a cliffhanger or not and it did end up being a cliff hanger. If I continued the series then I likely would’ve been conflicted on what book in which series to read next. Luckily I finished the Splintered books before the third and final book of the other series was out. It worked out well

[@cindywitte5052]

Love the crossover idea. that could get interesting.

[@rafamegrapha]

Hard agree on the blank page and pen inclusion for all fantasy books! What better space to let out all the amazing stuff that’s being poured into us than the back of the book❤

[@craiglavine1675]

I find that long running series are like rivers. The longer, broader, and deeper the story is, the more broken, spreading, and complicated its outlet becomes.

[@miavalentinaaguero4366]

The anthroposcene reviewed has differences between the audiobook, the physical and the ebook, and they all make sense, like on the audiobook it talks about the sound of a bird, and at the end of the chapter they play it and it’s pretty cool

[@jojobookish9529]

😂 that first one is why I'm about to spend 5 days in the mountains with no modern conveniences. Gotta experience some epic walking and commune with the trees, man. 🌲

[@seaneaston1040]

I think Luffy or the Strawhat pirates in any serious dystopian world would be an amazing crossover. One piece x 1984 Basically if the introduction of a character would result in the engoodening of a story + a whole genre shift I’m down

[@a.r.e.j.1693]

We do all the wacky crossovers in fandom rp! I was in a game where Zuko from ATLA was dating Rapunzel from Tangled and it was the sweetest thing.