2015 Review Round-Up: Fantasy Novella: The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss

The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Patrick Rothfuss
ISBN: 9780756410438
Lyrical and quirky novella set in the Kingkiller Chronicles universe, focused on Auri.
Read August 23, 2015

This book is just like Auri - it's not quite right in the head, but it's sweet and endearing and a little bit scary around the edges, and if you expect too much of it - if you WANT too much - it'll break and twist under you, but if you can just slip into it and glide along the broken and shattered road, you'll have delightful company, and perhaps feel a little less alone in your own brokenness and peculiarity.

Short Story: The Lightning Tree, Patrick Rothfuss

Rogues
GRR Martin & Gardner Dozois, editors

ISBN: 9780345537263

Short Story Collection, only read The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss

Read Sept 4, 2014.

Dear Mr. Rothfuss,

I only just now got around to reading your short story.  Please write about Bast and children and secrets and favors and lies and satyrs forever.  

Yours truly, 

Shisho.

PS - Oh this story was so damn amazing.  Your language makes me cry.  Your craft makes me green with envy.  Your storytelling makes me gape like a child.  Your understanding of humanity draws me in like a crackling bonfire on a dark cold night.  My face burns from sitting so close, but it's worth it to feel like I'm part of the fire, at least for as long as I can stand the pain.  

  

Never stop burning.