Bonus Book of the Month: ‘Edgedancer’ by Brandon Sanderson
It’s a hot July for Maude’s Book Club!!
This month, our BONUS BOOK OF THE MONTH has been on our TBR for a while. We started the Stormlight Archive, and it’s been one of the best series we’ve started! This month, we will be reading Edgedancer, which is a novella between Words of Radiance and Oathbringer
Make sure to mark your calendars as Maude Garrett will be conducting a Q&A with Brandon Sanderson himself in September! Want to read a main book with our book club in August? We are diving into Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive!!
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About the Author:
Brandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child, Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high, he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reeder, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card.
Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.
He went to school full time during the day, worked nights to pay for his schooling, and wrote as much as he could. He says it made for a rather dismal social life, but he finished seven novels during his undergraduate years. Brandon submitted many manuscripts for publication... and accumulated quite a pile of rejection letters. In spite of this, he continued to be a dedicated writer.
Edgedancer
by Brandon Sanderson
Synopsis:
Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can't help heading to Yeddaw when she hears the relentless Darkness is there hunting people like her with budding powers. The downtrodden in Yeddaw have no champion, and Lift knows she must seize this awesome responsibility.
What Edgedancer offers
compassion
morality
acceptance
identity
responsibility
nature of power
law vs. morality
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Maude and our community will dive into Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson on Thursday, July 31st. Join us on Twitch from 5-7 p.m. PT.
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