These novels are big.

On top of that, the Stormlight Archive books have gotten longer with each entry.

Journey Before Destination

But, as any Sanderson fan will tell you, journey before destination.

Collage image with characters from The Outer Worlds 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and Fable.

Getting into the Cosmere kicked that up a notch.

Now my reading cannot be contained to one hour.

Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up.

RKG Video Rory Krupa And Gave Promo Shot Walking Down Street Featuring Coco and Ramen

I’m now three-quarters of the way through Rhythm of War, which Ill probably finish this weekend.

And the third volume of the White Sandcomic, but thatll only take an hour or two.

To Return To Old Haunts…

Four people standing on a cliff looking at each other in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

There are a few easy answers.

I want to return to that.

I similarly leftA Song of Ice and Fireunfinished a few years ago.

Sad Keanu Reeves with Brandon Sanderson books The Well of Ascension and Wind and Truth on either side of him. Vin from Mistborn is visible in the background in silhouette.

…Or To Blaze New Trails?

I’ll get to them eventually.

But I doubt any will scratch quite the same itch.

Brandon Sanderson giving an update on his progress through Stormlight Archive 5 during a Weekly Update

Sanderson’s books are easy to get sucked into because his overarching structure means that there are built-in breaks.

So, what will I do when I run out?

Maybe I should start a big series like The Dark Tower or Malazan: Book of the Fallen.

Streaming

Maybe I should take a break from fantasy entirely and get really into Civil War history.

I don’t know.

But I’ve got a few thousand pages left to figure it out.

And Obsidian is carrying.