An Overwhelmed Creative

 Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first of four books from Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter. The book was released in January 2023, as promised, and it's been in my Kindle ever since. But now I've gotten to it and it just what I needed after struggling to read Stephen King's Fairy Tale. Without giving much away, the book is more of a fairy tale than Stephen King's book ever was. It was wholesome, filled with magic, and lots of spores. The story happens in another planet, one where the oceans aren't made up of water, but spores. Different kinds of spores for every ocean. Tress lives on an island surrounded by green spores, and as her adventure begins—fueled by love—she gets to interact with other spores. According to their color, the spores do different things when they are in contact with water, which makes it interesting, but a bit confusing, to be honest. But I just went with the flow and did my best to believe a ship sailing over spores. Apart from that, the st...

  What an amazing game! I finished it in about six weeks, playing more hours than I usually play during a week. I just couldn't get enough.  Hogwarts Legacy got a lot of things right. Especially because they used the same sets and creature design used in the Harry Potter movies. As I rewatch the movies with my son in preparation to go see The Cursed Child in NYC in a few weeks, I get a sense of nostalgia feeling like I've been there too. It's amazing how they managed to recreate Hogwarts Castle like they did. If anything, just being there discovering more and more Harry Potter related things, is worth the money I paid for the game. The game gave me a lot of freedom to explore, but it did stagger the main quest and side quests in an interesting way. First of all, it let me synch to my Wizarding World online account. As I was sorted into Hufflepuff years ago, I now feel like Hufflepuff is my house and I wouldn't change it for the world. Synching your account before the ga...