The X’mas break was a welcomed opportunity to read a fair chunk of Brandon Sanderson‘s Towers of Midnight. I completed reading the book by last week. The penultimate volume in the Wheel of Time series is fulfilling its promises in that it offers a broad picture of the state of the countries and of the convergence of the characters just before the Last Battle. (The following is clearly of limited interest for those who have not read the series of the Wheel of Time and a source of spoilers for those who have not yet read this final volume.)
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Towers of Midnight
Posted in Books with tags Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time, Towers of Midnight on January 22, 2011 by xi'anMeet the author
Posted in Books with tags Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm, Towers, WHSmith Paris on November 17, 2010 by xi'an
Last evening, I had the (incredible!) opportunity to attend Brandon Sanderson’s reading and signing event at WHSmith. The event started at 7pm with a short presentation of the author, followed by him reading an extract from the Prologue of Towers of Midnight and then him answering questions from the (large) audience. Besides the traditional question of “who wrote what” (which could not decently be answered!), there were questions about Brandon Sanderson’s favourite characters, the schedule for the next and final volume (another 18 months, most likely!), the planning for other books in the Wheel of Time universe… Nothing really new, except for the bad news of having to wait an extra six month for the final (yes, f.i.n.a.l!) volume of the series. Brandon Sanderson was then kind enough to sign all the books of the hundred readers who showed up in WHSmith, incl. my copy of The Gathering Storm. (My copy of Towers of Midnight still being in Philadelphia, as I used my amazonassociate account!) All this half an hour from home!
Brandon Sanderson in Paris
Posted in Books with tags Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, WHSmith Paris on November 6, 2010 by xi'anWHSmith Paris sent me this email tonight:
WHSmith – 248, rue de Rivoli – 75001 Paris – M°Concorde – Tuesday 16th November – 7pm –
Brandon Sanderson will present and sign The Gathering Storm and Towers of Midnight,.Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson was born in Nebraska on December 19, 1975.He earned his Master’s degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine published by the university. His published novels include Elantris (2005), the teenage fiction novel Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (2007), and the three-part Mistborn series, consisting of Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006), The Well of Ascension, (2007), and The Hero of Ages. (2008).
Following the death of Robert Jordan in 2007, Jordan’s wife and editor Harriet McDougal recruited Sanderson to finish Jordan’s epic multi-volume fantasy series The Wheel of Time from Jordan’s extensive drafts and notes. Harriet asked him to complete the series after being deeply impressed by Mistborn: The Final Empire. A Memory of Light, originally slated to be the final book in The Wheel of Time series was split into three volumes. The first, The Gathering Storm, was released on October 27, 2009. Towers of Midnight, was just released on 2 November 2010. A Memory of Light will tentatively follow in November 2011.
It is rather amazing to see that The Wheel of Time is popular enough in France to bring the author to Paris for signing… If I can find the time to go to the Rivoli arcades after my R class, I will bring my The Gathering Storm to WHSmith as my copy of Towers of Midnight is still in transit.
Towers of Midnight [-38]
Posted in Books with tags Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time, Towers of Midnight on September 25, 2010 by xi'an
In case you are really desperate when faced with 38 days remaining till the publication of Towers of Midnight, Brandon Sanderson has posted on his blog the eighth chapter of Towers of Midnight and Leigh Butler has posted her feelings about the new book (but not spoiler nor hints, the post with spoilers all over the place lurking somewhere till the second of November)…
Towers of Midnight [-58]
Posted in Books with tags Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time, Towers of Midnight, Wind of Time on September 6, 2010 by xi'anNow, I was quite surprised to see a trailer for a book, of all things! but here it is, 58 days before the publication of the 13th volume of The Wheel of Time.
After all, there was also one for The Name of the Wind..!
