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AlabasterRaven73

All Fantasy and Star Wars books! Give me romance, intrigue, phenomenal world-building, and Magic!

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Summer 2026 Readalong
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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
Lost Stars (Star Wars)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)
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The Daisy Chain Flower Shop (Dream Harbor, #6)
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The Daisy Chain Flower Shop (Dream Harbor, #6)

The Daisy Chain Flower Shop (Dream Harbor, #6)

Laurie Gilmore

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White Sand, Volume 1 (White Sand, #1)

White Sand, Volume 1 (White Sand, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

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    Okay, so on my Sanderson Cosmere journey, the list of books I haven’t read is now much shorter then the ones I have.

    White Sand was a gamble for my TBR, but I didn’t want to leave any stone unturned. I found all three volumes at the library.

    First, I had a comic book phase…30 years ago. Second, I really invented in The Sandman, and not much else (it changed my brain chemistry). Third, Sanderson is amazing at world building and describing things through prose. Like, a LOT of prose (eyeballs Wind and Truth’s 1300+ pages).

    The thing is, I’m halfway through the first volume. The visuals don’t drive the story, the text does. Having read this much Sanderson, I can see what he’d doing, but it’s more like a visual representation of how he would write rather than the art of the GRAPHIC novel.

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    Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5)

    Brandon Sanderson

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    The Martian

    Andy Weir

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    I need some encouragement. I need to ask myself, "What would an Apollo astronaut do?" He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.

    Man 😭😭

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