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No, really. I mean that title. Hear me out.

First of all, if you have no idea, who Brandon Sanderson is, here’s a quick primer:

He’s a delightful nerd living in Utah, writing an absurd number of very popular fantasy books that amassed a huge fandom across the globe. Sanderson’s work is the gold standard of modern high fantasy for a lot of people.

Reading his novels can also endlessly delight or deeply frustrate people. Sometimes at the same time.

To explain why, I first have to spoil something about almost all of his books. I think knowing this “spoiler” could actually enhance your experience of them and maybe even spare you some grief down the road, but if you want to get into his works totally blind, I recommend stopping here.

Okay. Ready?

For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a job.

Kobe Bryant was undeniably one of the best basketball players who ever lived.

During his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, he won five NBA championships, two Olympic gold medals, four NBA All-Star Game MVP awards, and he was a two-time NBA scoring champion, and the overall league MVP in 2008.

Conventional wisdom would tell us that Kobe Bryant was an exceptionally talented man.

It’s January, which means, it’s the best time to take stock of the past twelve months and plan a little for the next twelve.

I’ve read 21 books, enjoyed 333 comic books, watched 24 movies, and binged 17 TV shows in 2022. Below, I collected the ones that stayed with me all throughout the year, the best of the best that I would recommend to my own friends.

I. A Call in the Night

On April 26th, 1986, at approximately 1:30 a.m., a call ran into one of the fire stations in Pripyat.

“Fire Department”

“Hello, Ivankov?”

“Yes. Yes?”

“You’ve been called to Pripyat… Hello?”

“Yes. Yes, I can hear you.”

“At the nuclear plant over there, in the third and fourth blocks. The roof is on fire.”

For me, books are the most fascinating objects that our species have ever created. I regularly marvel at the fact that a piece of wood can safely contain a slice of a person’s mind and transfer it into someone else’s brain.

Amoral is a word that I started to deeply dislike lately.

People say it all the time. We use it to describe the jerk who jumps the line, the political candidate we haven’t voted for, or our friend’s friend who’s doing something we would never do. When someone doesn’t act according to our own set of values, we label them amoral. Valueless.