What? Three days in a row? You bet your beauteous buttons, Batman.

After briefly pondering the underlying linguistics, I've concluded that:
-a foamentous decision involves brazenly pouring the entire bottle of bubble bath into the tub--consequences be damned
-a gnomentous moment involves a lot of bickering shortish creatures who are generally pretty clever
-a loamentous field is great for crops and easy to excavate
-and that a tomentous library contains only the most ancient and unwieldy of books

I recently finished reading Brandon Sanderson's Way of Kings, the first book in his new series. Overall I found it an enjoyable and quick read with much of the creativity and unique worldbuilding that I have come to expect from reading several of his previous books. The entire continent on which the story takes place has the feel of a rocky tidal pool; there are retracting plants, crustaceans of all sorts and intermittent periods of diluvian danger. His signature strategy of building up to a thrilling emotional and intellectual conclusion also reared its famous head, though I might complain that he left a bit too much for the end. My other, and perhaps more damning, grievance is that I'm afraid I must accuse Sanderson of being a mediocre writer. He writes action and battles (both of which he is fond of) quite clearly and well, but often a chapter will go by with very little substance excepting plot advancement. It's as if I would have gotten just as much out of the section if I had just been told that characters A and B talked about X and Y and came to conclusion Z. Though, to be fair, the last novel I read was by one of the better pure writers in fantasy, Mr. Rothfuss. Still though, I'd say Sanderson's capacity for creative design and immersive mystery-style plotlines makes up for this weakness. And after the highstorm of revelations offered by the last 100 or so pages, I'll be sure to pick up the next installment.

Earthbound Segment #2: Of Ants and Officers
Being a hero isn't easy; saving the world ain't a piece of cake. As it so happens, Ness had to beat up a lot of things today. Some of those things were people, and some of those people were police officers. But don't judge! They were asking for it! Ness also managed to peruse the public library, enjoy the calming fluttering of a magic butterfly, purchase an unseemly amount of hamburgers (100% beef), and talk to the happiest trumpeter in the world. In other news Liar X Aggerate actually managed to unearth something this time...something sinister.
Anyway, Frank's defeat put the mayor on our side so after bashing his way through hordes of slugs, rats and antoids on the outskirts of town, Ness managed to defeat the fiendish Titanic Ant and gain access to Giant Step. There he learned the first part of some sort of melody, the inklings of which he can only begin to inkle!
Yet not all was well in Onett-ville, for upon returning to civilization Ness was accosted by an irate cop, who demanded that he appear at the local police station. After spending the night at home and receiving a strange dream calling for him to travel to Twoson (a neighboring town) our hero realized that he had no choice but to confront the roadblock-happy men in blue that compose Onett's finest.

After bashing this way through a handful of henchmen, Ness came face to face with our second featured EarthBound villain: Captain Strong.

Captain Strong is a suburban police force legend. Overseeing the peace and quiet in the sparsely populated, law-abiding Onett for years, while at the same time maintaining the roadblock labyrinth that put his town on the map, nothing gets by his super-keen constabulary senses! In combat he is lethal; Captain Strong prefers to rely on devastating submission holds, but when taxed he will unleash his Super-Ultra Mambo-Tango-Foxtrot Martial Arts, at which point law-breaking becomes impossible and bone-breaking becomes certain. Luckily he befriends Ness after being impressed by his bat-wielding prowess and determination and agrees to let our hero journey to Twoson.