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regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote2021-09-25 06:10 pm

Flight of the Heron read-along: Prologue

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Welcome everyone to the Flight of the Heron read-along! I'm delighted by the amount of interest there's been in this lovely book recently, and I hope this will be a great opportunity to discuss it in more depth.

Some notes:

A reminder of where to find the novel as a free ebook and a free audiobook.

My plan is to cover two chapters in most weeks, but I thought we'd start with just the Prologue, partly to provide a gentle introduction and partly because it makes it easier to split the rest of the book up in a way that makes sense.

We have a mixture of people re-reading the book and people reading it for the first time participating, so, if you've read the book before and would like to discuss earlier chapters in the context of what happens later on, please warn for or hide spoilers! I suggest using rot13, if that works for everyone.

Next week we'll read Part I chapters 1 and 2, and meet Keith Windham...
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[personal profile] owl 2021-09-26 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
This chapter has a similar feeling to me of novels set around the outbreak of WW1. The young men excited to go to war, with no idea that their lives and the whole fabric of their society is about to change forever.