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Inhaled the Oath* books. Then inevitably picked up the Arrows* books.

And then and then. I looked up the valdemar series, I thought I'd read all / most of them, but it turns out so many have been published in the meantime, that there are more books I haven't read than books I have. Hmmmmm.

• I think I'm definitely meh over lifebond stuff
• but I do like competence
• and I do gravitate towards protagonists who overthink (I got it from somewhere okay?)

Now the question I have: do I keep reading? Do I keep reading in publication order? (I semi-sort of have done that so far). Or do I skip the books I've already read and try to just go read books that are new to me? (I've read the Mage* and the Storm* and the first one of the Owl* series, but I never got my hands on the rest of the Owl* series. That was starting to get a bit angsty for me -- I wonder, if I just read the founding of valdemar, the herald backstory ones, and the ones with new-to-me-character Mags, if those would hit the notes I'm looking for)