Flight of the Heron read-along: Prologue

[regshoe]

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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...

Comments

[regshoe]

Heh, I do like the weather snark—but of course we get a beautiful day for this scene. :)

it's a denizen of three worlds - earth, air and water.

Oh, that's interesting! I vaguely remember reading somewhere that some cultures give folkloric significance to puffins for the same reason—anyway, I do think the heron seems appropriate as Garvin's 'messenger'.

[hyarrowen]

Well, I can quite understand why she didn't call it "The Flight of the Puffin." Same applies to ducks, really.