2024 Summer Reading Recommendations:The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson At first glance, stories about magical rings, lightsabers, and made-up worlds have nothing to do with real life. And in one sense this is true—I will never hold a real lightsaber or need to fight a dark lord. But this is to miss something important about the nature of fantasy stories. Though they may use the means of imagined worlds and characters, fantasy stories can express fundamental truths about [...]