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...
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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Date: Sep. 28th, 2021 06:38 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: Sep. 28th, 2021 07:26 pm (UTC)Look, it's very important that we know right away exactly how splendidly handsome Ewen is—it provides important context for Keith's POV later on... :D
That's an interesting thought about the heron—and very true!