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If you could run away from home, where would you go? Why would you choose to go there?
Claudia Kinkaid’s decision to run away to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (yes, you read that right) may appear to be the childish, possibly adventurous decision of a near-adolescent who is fed-up with the normality of life, but From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is more than simply a run-away tale. It explores the why beneath the why.
320. The number of completion. Am I right?
Oh wait, 320 just seems to be the number of fullness because, by some miracle of miracles, I read 320 pages on Sunday.
Who am I?
This is the soul who struggles to power through a few dozen pages on a typical day. Not for lack of wanting to read but because, well, life.
So, what made Sunday a special sort of day?
Why, hello there!
Welcome to my (Ryan’s) reading journal, where I share brief in-the-moment-ish thoughts on the books I’m reading.
Ok, ok, and the movies I’m watching too. Can’t forget about those.
Now, brief (but important) disclaimer. This journal isn’t going to cover everything I’m reading and watching, but when I want to remember certain thoughts, I’ll be brain-dumping in a hopefully (hopefully) logical manner on this page.
Maybe you’ll get something out of these random book-ish/film-ish musings. Maybe you’ll just laugh at my crazy thoughts (and my overuse of (parentheticals)).
Either way is cool.🙂
As always, drop a comment and we can chat further. Thanks for reading!
Apparently I missed the hype-train for Brandon Sanderson’s tome-of-tomes: The Way of Kings. Released in 2010, The Way of Kings is the first in a 10-book fantasy series, each installment longer than the entirety of The Lord of the Rings. #notatypo
Only the first three books have been released (Book 4 is due-out in late 2020), but the fanbase for entire series – The Stormlight Archive – is ravenous.
Having recently finished a different Sanderson novel (the wonderfully executed “Mistborn”) and watching some of my favorite booktubers glow about the series thus far, I eagerly picked-up Book One, expecting to rip through the thing faster than a windspren.
[Read more…] about The Way of Kings: Pages 100-200 Story Analysis
