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message 2: by Taylor (last edited Oct 25, 2020 12:13AM) (new)

Taylor | 87 comments As It Flows Challenge

Started: 5 August 2019
Completed:

Level: Endless
Books Read: 10/25+

It was a dark and stormy night, pitch black except for a glow that came from a small white kitten. The Tropic of Serpents was renown for the many strange beasts that crawled and slithered through its jungles, but Kassandra knew that this was something new, something yet unrecorded in the thick tomes collecting dust on the shelves of academic libraries back home in Svarland. Into the Dragon's Maw she had climbed, daring jungles rarely explored by any but locals, to the consternation of her brother, the head of the Lilland family. But now it seemed all the criticism she'd endured had paid off: she had discovered one of The Secrets of Solace.

Her professors at The Pennyroyal Academy had lectured on them: beings from the otherworldly realm of Solace who assumed physical forms, recognizable by their wondrous glow. The most infamous Secret had been the Roller Girl, a being from Solace who had taken on the guise of a bionic girl and become a popular carnival attraction before breaking into the castle of the Queen of Svarland and abruptly disappearing in a great brightening of her glow. Her strange actions had aroused great mistrust in Solace and its inhabitants by many of the people of Svarland, who came to believe that there must be a ruler on One Dark Throne in Solace determined to challenge and upset humanity. It did not improve matters that the Queens of Fennbirn, a large neighboring nation, had taken the incident as an opportunity to challenge the security and stability of the Svarland monarchy; tensions were still uneasy despite the many years that had passed.

There had been a few sightings of the strange beings of Solace since -- a shimmering hawk over Lake Ilsa, an urchin boy in the city of Elantris who was thought to be too nimble to ever be caught -- but not many, and as far as Kassandra knew, this was the first outside of Svarland. The Last Wish she had made upon boarding the ship to the Tropic was for this expedition to prove worth at least everything she had endured to organize it, and here it was, her wish fulfilled in kitten form. The little creature's every strand of fur glistened like sunlight on White Sand.

Books:
1. The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
2. Into the Dragon's Maw by Sebastian Girnir and Galaad
3. The Secrets of Solace by Jaleigh Johnson
4. Pennyroyal Academy by M.A. Larson
5. Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
6. One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
7. Queens of Fennbirn by Kendare Blake
8. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
9. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
10. White Sand, Volume 1 by Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, and Julius Gopez


message 3: by Taylor (last edited Jan 26, 2025 07:59PM) (new)

Taylor | 87 comments Millionaire Challenge

Started: 1 January 2022
Completed:

Pages: 950 / 1,000,000
Books Read: 2

2022 - 950 pages
1. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid - 378 pages
2. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson - 572 pages


message 4: by Taylor (last edited Jan 27, 2025 03:07PM) (new)

Taylor | 87 comments A Seriously Series Challenge: Cosmere Universe by Brandon Sanderson in mostly-chronological order

Started: 20 September 2020
Completed:

Books & Stories in Series: 10 / 31 (series is ongoing)

1. White Sand, Volume 1 (White Sand #1)
2. White Sand, Volume 2 (White Sand #2)
3. White Sand, Volume 3 (White Sand #3)

4. "White Sand" (story on which the graphic novels are based, in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection )
5. Elantris (Elantris #1)
6. "The Hope of Elantris" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection) (Elantris #1.5)
7. "The Emperor's Soul" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection)
8. "The Eleventh Metal" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection) (Mistborn #0.5)
9. Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1)
10. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2)
11. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3)

12. "Mistborn: Secret History" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection ) (Mistborn #1.5-3.5)
13. Warbreaker (standalone)
14. "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection )
15. "Sixth of the Dusk" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection ) (if Isles of the Emberdark is not yet released; it is included in that novel)
16. The Way of Kings
17. Words of Radiance
18. "Edgedancer" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection )
19. Oathbringer
20. Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive #3.5)
21. Rhythm of War
22. Wind and Truth
23. The Alloy of Law
24. "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania" (in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection )
25. Shadows of Self
26. The Bands of Mourning
27. The Lost Metal
28. Tress of the Emerald Sea
29. Yumi and the Night Painter
30. The Sunlit Man
31. Isles of the Emberdark (unreleased)


message 5: by Taylor (last edited Jan 26, 2025 07:41PM) (new)

Taylor | 87 comments A Seriously Series Challenge: The Witcher Series by Andrzej Sapkowski

Started: 9 October 2020
Completed: May 2022

Books in Series: 9 / 9

1. The Last Wish (#0.5)
2. Season of Storms (#0.6)
3. Sword of Destiny (#0.7)
4. The Road With No Return (#0.25)
5. Blood of Elves (#1)
6. The Time of Contempt (#2)
7. Baptism of Fire (#3)
8. The Tower of Swallows (#4)
9. Lady of the Lake (#5)



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