If you wish to become a storyteller, here is a hint: sell your labor, but not your mind.

The Year of Sanderson starts promptly with a new book releasing on January 1 and it's told from the perspective by Hoid! We are truly spoiled.

Lem might have been poor in the kind of currency that paid taxes. But he was downright wealthy when it came to the kind of currency that mattered.

Tress of the Emerald Sea is a Cosmere novel that requires no Cosmere knowledge, but like with all things Sanderson, if you know a little the implication in this book are plenty. On the whole this is a very lighthearted, whimsical fairytale. I wasn't in a rush to read the book but I found it very easy to read a chapter or five in a sitting.

Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead version of ourselves.

The world building and magic system were creative and it involves pirates! And a dragon! The illustrations in the ebook probably didn't do the designers work justice but I appreciated having some approved artwork to supplement the story as opposed to using my head-canon.

...worries are the only thing that you can make heavier simply by thinking about them

Fun read and great way to start off 2023!