The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects 2)

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Damn, that guy could be profound. And depressing. Five stars. Should be narrating documentaries about disasters like Chernobyl. Or my love life.” Esta novela no está dentro del Cosmere del autor, así que es una historia que pueden leer sin preocuparse de sus conexiones con otros libros, además, tiene un tono que se acercó mucho más a lo que hizo con la saga de Alcatraz que a sus novelas de fantasía o ciencia ficción. A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the “real world” should have been a guidebook entitled The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, except his copy exploded during transit. The few fragments he managed to save provide clues to his situation, but can he figure them out in time to survive? The things flooded into the room around him. Angry, squirming over floor, walls, ceiling. Their bone-white bodies almost seeming to glow in the moonlight. Brandon Sanderson’s reputation is finally as big as his novels.”– The New York Times on Words of Radiance

trigger + content warnings: memory loss, battle, death, murder, violence, loss of a loved one in past, grief depiction, depression depiction, pandemic mention, brief mentions of loss of a child, kidnapping, self harm for proof of medical abilities, talk of colonization, gun violence, mention of cheating, suicide ideation Good starting places are Mistborn (a.k.a. The Final Empire), Skyward, Steelheart,The Emperor’s Soul, and Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians. If you’re already a fan of big fat fantasies, you can jump right into The Way of Kings. Como dije el tono de este libro es mucho más parecido a la saga middle-grade de Sanderson, Alcatraz versus los Bibliotecarios Malvados, que cualquier otro libro adulto o juvenil que hubiera sacado en el último tiempo. Ya que se sostuvo por la narración en primera persona de protagonista y su forma de hacerlo, las bromas que hacía, los pensamientos que tenía y ese humor de autoburla, muy Alcatraz. From #1 New York Times Bestselling, Hugo Award-winning author, Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s new DARK ONE fantasy saga. Legal note: Our Plague-free Guarantee™ is void for all customers who refuse personal medial nannites. Enter your dimension at your own risk. Maybe bring a prefitted casket.Brandon Sanderson's reputation is finally as big as his novels." - The New York Times on Words of Radiance First of all, before I get all serious about the review, let me just get this out of my system: Storms, the book's name is far too long. I have often ended up saying its name wrong while discussing this book with my friends – mostly switching the 'Handbook' part with 'Guide'. Instead of typing its colossal name often in the review, I'll be shortening it simply to "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook" wherever required. It is a cool name though, and the name resonates with the premise of the book. Lo que no me ha convencido es todo lo demás. Por un lado, Sanderson aplica un humor a toda la novela que no funciona. Mete chistes con calzador y a veces me ha parecido oir hasta unos platillos de fondo esperando las risas. No me ha convencido. In November 2020 we saw the release of Rhythm of War—the fourth massive book in the New York Times #1 bestselling Stormlight Archive series that began with The Way of Kings—and Dawnshard (book 3.5), a novella set in the same world that bridges the gaps between the main releases. This series is my love letter to the epic fantasy genre, and it’s the type of story I always dreamed epic fantasy could be. The fifth volume, Wind and Truth, is set for release in fall 2024.

I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes. Sylas K Barrett The Secret of the Sul’Dam: Subtle Changes to the Way the One Power Works in The Wheel of Time TV Series 2 hours ago Killing is desperation, not strength. To live without killing… that is a strong society. If the reverse were true, my lands would not be withering away, like crops long without water…” Damn, that guy could be profound. And depressing. Five stars. Should be narrating documentaries about disasters like Chernobyl. Or my love life.Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved.

Greetings, frugal and not-so-frugal witches and wizards! In these times of financial instability, you may be asking yourself, “Is The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England worth the investment?” Well, the answer to that question is… Michael Kramer and Kate Reading are beyond pros in the narration world. They are a dynamic duo that always do a superb job and really I can't say enough about how well they narrate EVERYTHING they do together. I was able to listen at my usual 1.5x speed. Generally speaking, comedic SFF novels rarely gel with me. When it comes to Sanderson's novels, whether they are in the Cosmere or not, I think readers often agree or disagree about the quality of Sanderson's jokes in his books. From my perspective, I am mostly okay with the comedy Sanderson included in the Cosmere novels. For example, in the case of Wayne, Wit, Lopen, and Lightsong, I highly enjoyed reading their jokes in their respective series. But Lift? That one was a complete miss for me. It is sad to say that, for me, the jokes here (and there were many of them) did not land on me. At all. This will be a completely subjective experience, like any book we read. And to be fair, the jokes successfully set the fun and maybe even whimsical tone nicely, but for me, they make the narrative feel too oriented for younger readers. This was especially true in the first half of the novel. If you think Wayne's jokes were bad, wait until you read the main character's here. I actually got secondhand embarrassment from many of his jokes. It is well known that Sanderson is a huge fan of Terry Pratchett's books and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and it seems like he might be channeling a bit too much of his love for these books into the storytelling and writing here. Sanderson's love for Pratchett's books shines nicely in Tress of the Emerald Sea, in my opinion, but not in this book. In the early 1960s, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formalized what would become his most famous truism: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This can be further extrapolated to Bagsworth’s Law ™: Any sufficiently trained modern person can become a god to those from previous eras. You may be mediocre by today’s standards. But in grade school you were taught a fundamental understanding of science, nature, and medicine— power that can establish dynasties, save millions of lives, and fundamentally change the world. And there are enough dimensions that each and every one of us can have our own.

La lógica detrás del libro era bastante entretenida y a lo largo de varios capítulos cortos tuvimos acceso a la verdadera guía del mago Frugal para sobrevivir en la Inglaterra del Medioevo. Me gustó que Sanderson intercalara la historia con el libro que el mismo protagonista tenía para orientarse en ese mundo. Además, el libro estaba escrito con ese tono satírico de burla hacia las guías, las estrategias de marketing y los asuntos legales, así que esos pequeños capítulos resultaban muy divertidos de leer. Lilly set the tip of the chalk against the ground and began to draw a circle around herself. Her hand shook so much that the line was unveven. Professor Fitch would have been quite displeased to see such a sloppy Line of Warding. You may be thinking to yourself right now, “Um, isn’t this the part of the review where you’re supposed to tell us what the book is ABOUT? And… talking bananas? What IS this?!”