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Fascinating that Ishar did not foresee Kaladin's involvement. Neither did the Diagram or the Skybreakers. I wonder if there's something wonky going on, Fortune-wise, about Kaladin.

Think he was perhaps talking to Lift (and I'm guessing the Mink) hiding in the walls?

West Virginia sure is west

For some reason I tend to get it confused with Chinese politician Zhou Enlai which does NOT help me remember what it actually is

Truth, Beauty, and Hatred!

It's in favor of Harris, I think. The people who put this up are Your Community PAC, which is a pro-middle class PAC. The first three items they support listed on their website are the same ones on the billboard.

*adding it to your concise dictionary

The line before it, where Kaladin is compared to a boulder on a precipice, and then a bit later when the boulder falls off the edge are lines that always make me catch my breath. This is one of the best written scenes in the entire book.

The juxtaposition of the egregious run-on sentence followed by the two word "Like Zorro." is killing me oh my goddd

I really don't think the lyrics of the song are the true issue here. While they obviously triggered some grief in the wife, if this isn't her normal reaction to things then there's something else going on. The suggestion about menopause causing emotional instability is a good one, but there are definitely other things that can cause it, like too much stress built up from having the exchange student, or Reddit's favorite suggestion of a brain tumor. It's like how the Iranian yogurt is not the actual issue.

It's a little baffling to me that people are so quick to condemn the wife for freaking out over song lyrics when there have been plenty of similar posts where people were given the benefit of the doubt that there was something else going on besides an immature reaction.

Menopause can absolutely cause psychosis and a whole host of other psychological problems.

This was my thinking as well.

Personally, the scenes in Urithiru are some of my favorites in the entire series in part because they're more limited in scale than the other books have been. We got to see how the characters at Urithiru worked with limited resources under active occupation while isolated and under constant scrutiny/hunting. It was great for the character development of Navani, Kaladin, Rlain, and Venli to see how they react in such a situation. I think all the Urithiru stuff fits well with Sanderson's Second and Third Laws of Magic, which hold that "Limitations>Powers" and "Expand what you already have before you add something new."

Narratively, giving so much attention to Urithiru and how it, the Sibling, and Light work is probably setting the stage for important events in Wind and Truth and for the second half of the series. We understand now how things work so Brandon doesn't have to spend time later explaining them. It's kind of like an example I've seen mentioned before: the Purelake interlude in TWOK showed us what the Purelake was like so that when Dalinar visited it in a later vision, we already understood how it worked and Brandon doesn't have to break the suspense of the vision to explain everything.

I think it's fine to be disappointed in Rhythm of War for not being what you wanted, but I think it's also important to recognize that there are a lot of elements to epic fantasy–and particularly Brandon's epic fantasy–than just expanding the scope of the world geographically.

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How are we supposed to feel like the world is ending when, for almost a whole book, we spend our time with characters stuck in a city with no connection to the outside world. And maybe this would’ve been fine if the other major plots explored more of the world. But no, Shallan’s group is in Shadesmar. Which is arguably more cut off from the rest of the world.

I think the lack of connection between the different groups of characters is kind of the whole point. There's a sense of terror from the people in Urithiru (and later from Dalinar) about the lack of communication because they know no help is coming. They're a small group of people spread throughout the tower fighting a losing battle as much as they can. It also shows how stretched thin the coalition's forces are, because Dalinar can't send a counter invasion to retake Urithiru, especially without the use of the Oathgates–there's a reason Urithiru was built as hard to reach on foot as possible. Permanently losing control of Urithiru is the most disastrous thing that could happen to the coalition, and it was narrowly avoided. Rhythm of War doesn't have as much explosive destruction as the end of Words of Radiance and in Oathbringer, but the war is very much real.

(Btw I'm not trying to get into an argument, just offering some different perspectives on the Urithiru scenes that haven't been brought up in the comments yet. You're welcome to disagree with me if you want.)

They're not my favorite parts of Rhythm of War, but I also liked them. Reading about the listener culture was definitely a big plus for me as well. We also saw how hard Venli had been manipulated into everything by Ulim, which further contextualizes both Venli's story and how much the voidspren have done to get the Everstorm started.

It's unfortunate that a lot of people want kittens instead of grown cats. My girl was in the shelter for over 3 years until I adopted her. She had been surrendered back to them at age 4, and no one wanted her even though she's a massive sweetheart.

It also describes how he was convicted after breaking into a woman's home in 1981 and raping her, then breaking into her home a month later and raping her again.

Dear god that's horrifying

My tortie is an only cat. When I adopted her they said she does not get along with other cats, which is why she was surrendered back to the shelter before I adopted her.

I remember reading on the first boru someone saying that if this post has been made from the daughter's perspective, people would.be eviscerating the father for trying to contact her for a whole year while clearly not respecting her boundaries. There's no winning in the court of Reddit opinion.

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I have read the rules

Thank you for the detailed explanation!