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Flight of the Heron read-along: Part V chapters 1-2
Tha's bahn' to catch thy deeath o' cowd...
Welcome back, everyone, and happy new year! We embark on the final Part...
Next week we'll continue with chapters 3 and 4 of Part V.
Welcome back, everyone, and happy new year! We embark on the final Part...
Next week we'll continue with chapters 3 and 4 of Part V.
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Somehow the fact that Ewen regrets leaving his land behind, while being comparatively calm about his family and friends, made that scene even more affecting for me. Focusing primarily on, say, Alison instead would have been more conventional, but I don't think it wouldn't have worked as well.
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...I'm still miffed about it all being lumped together as "Jacobite Trilogy" on the AO3 - as if anyone would go looking for fic under that name! That combined edition only came out in the 1980s anyway. It's be like having Richard II - Richard III all lumped together under "History Plays" and not listed under the individual plays.
mutter mutter mutter, broken record, waste of breath, etc
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*grumps*
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At least 'Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster' is still synned to the canonical tag, so one can at least tag one's own fic accurately, even if only as a symbolic gesture. Perhaps I take this too seriously...!
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NEVER.
/did librarianship training
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Yes—it's a non-obvious and interesting angle to take on both Ewen's faith and his feelings when he thinks he's going to his death. I love the emphasis on specific place and its meaning ('over there, only there, on that one spot of earth...').
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(But you're right -- I don't think there's a such thing as too much Keith.)
And yes -- I think the way that the narrative is so tightly tied to the land itself works especially well when the broader conflict is over the rule of that land. I really love the result, too.
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I think the way that the narrative is so tightly tied to the land itself works especially well when the broader conflict is over the rule of that land.
That's a very good point! Huh, yes, Broster's strengths as a descriptive writer really go well with her choice of historical setting there.