The Great Mistborn Read-along of 2019/2020 *Bands of Mourning*

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Are we good to start reading Mistborn Secret History tomorrow? Is that too early?
 
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Kassina, re: the Sanderson annotation......while there isn't an instance of joyful Snapping in Mistborn so far, in the Stormlight books there is a similar moment when magic becomes accessible for people, where in a later book in the series it's implied that at least one character became magical due to a non-tragic "snapping."
 

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Ok, I'll check out the length of Secret History tonight and get something thrown together and we can go at it.
 

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Ok, so I didn't actually get a chance last night to look at page count per chapter.

Mistborn Secret History is about 150 pages and in 29 chapters across 6 parts.
Would it be feasible for everyone to do about two parts per week? I know that part 6 has the most chapters, but again I am unsure on how much of the 151 pages part 6 is.

Edit: I'm looking at it right now. Will update shortly.
 
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OK!

Since Sanderson rarely writes chapters with consistent pages per chapter it always makes it interesting.
If we are ready to start, we will read the first 4 parts on the story, which based on the Arcanum Unbounded version of the book, it 72 pages, subtracting the pages that are in between part changes. That way we will read this bad boy in two weeks since it's so short by Sanderson standards. Next week will be 62 pages.

I'll make a table for the first post as well.

Week One
Parts 1-4 of Mistborn Secret History.
Thirteen chapters. 72 pages.
Average of 5.53 pages per chapter.

BEGIN!
 

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@Leala al'Dareis Are you still with us on this? Do you have access to Secret History?
 

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I’m so behind. :laugh: I’m afraid not, sorry. :hug
 

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I love finding out that Kelsier was, in fact, pissed that they made Elend the Emperor. :laugh:
 

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I can't believe I never read this until now. :laugh: I bought Arcanum Unbounded for Edgedancer, read that, and then... forgot there were other stories in there I should read. :look: I'll have to go back and read the other ones, I guess. :cheeseeni:

Also, finding out more about Preservation, it makes me want to see a list of all the mist spirit's actions throughout the trilogy. I have a pretty bad memory and can't remember what all Preservation did to try to get through to Vin...
 

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I have a pretty bad memory and can't remember what all Preservation did to try to get through to Vin...

The only thing I can remember is what Preservation did to Elend.
 

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Yes, I loved it when I found this book, I got it as a stand-alone before Arcanum Unbounded, and while it was a while since I had read Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages, but it was enough to enjoy the story :) It'll get a bit weirder as we go along though :look:

I had forgotten that it was in fact Kelsier who stabbed Elend :cry
 

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Mistborn Secret history was released stand alone?
 

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Thaddius, yes it was, but that was before Arcanum was released...

Elia, the book is called Arcanum Unbounded, it is within that book...
 

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I have the book file, it's just too large to send to my Kindle. Sorry I should have been more clear! :laugh: And my Kindle is so old, my computer is not recognizing it through USB.... sigh. I might have to just use a reader app on my computer instead.
 

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My phone is super ancient too though, I'm not sure it would fit there either. I have a thing about really old tech I guess. :laugh:
 

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Thaddius, yes it was, but that was before Arcanum was released...

Just looked it up. the UK got a hardcover release of it, here in the US we only got an ebook/Arcanum Unbounded version of it.
 
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