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

[hedgebird]

I'm a bit late to the party, sorry! This will be my third time reading FotH, I guess. IIRC I first heard of it six or seven years ago, came across a copy about three years ago, and have since read the trilogy (and, well, skimmed Almond, Wild Almond.)

What struck me this time is what a pessimist Lachlan is. His life is full of omens, and they're all bad. Dad sees a dream heron, context unknown? Better kill a heron! Red light on my dirk? Better throw my dirk away! Clearly a "glass half-empty AND PROBABLY POISONED OMG" kind of guy. I wonder why.

And it's very clear already how much Broster likes him!

Haha yes. Mr. Darcy arises from the pool...

[regshoe]

Welcome, and no worries—the intention is for discussion to stay open through the week, so you're not late :)

That's very true about Lachlan—and Ewen's impatient recitation of all the other things Lachlan considers bad omens suggests he's like this a lot.

I love Ewen as Mr Darcy :D