regshoe

First time reader of the book -- thank you for hosting this readalong!

I agree with many others that the scenery descriptions are masterfully done, and I laughed at getting (tastefully elided) nudity right out of the gate. I don't know where this story is going beyond what is inherently implied in a one-paragraph summary of the 1754 Rising, but I nevertheless have a strong sense of foreshadowing that killing the heron was exactly the wrong action to take -- that everything might have gone much better had he just left the poor bird alone. And also that anything you have to put deliberate effort into sinking is probably going to come back again...